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ECK Eckoh Plc

38.00
-0.50 (-1.30%)
28 Mar 2024 - Closed
Delayed by 15 minutes
Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Eckoh Plc LSE:ECK London Ordinary Share GB0033359141 ORD 0.25P
  Price Change % Change Share Price Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  -0.50 -1.30% 38.00 37.00 39.00 38.50 37.50 38.50 229,774 10:45:50
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
Communications Services, Nec 38.82M 4.64M 0.0160 23.75 110.37M
Eckoh Plc is listed in the Communications Services sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker ECK. The last closing price for Eckoh was 38.50p. Over the last year, Eckoh shares have traded in a share price range of 30.50p to 45.50p.

Eckoh currently has 290,439,014 shares in issue. The market capitalisation of Eckoh is £110.37 million. Eckoh has a price to earnings ratio (PE ratio) of 23.75.

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DateSubjectAuthorDiscuss
10/7/2021
12:55
I wish someone would get on with it and make a takeover bid
septimus quaid
10/7/2021
11:08
ECK is worrying most investors it would appear. Should we be really ,really worried?
rabbrooks
04/6/2021
11:42
Indeed, there was a weird, low-ball trade went through near COP yesterday which had the effect of depressing the baseline for today's opening (i.e. exaggerating today's increase):

03/06/21 16:08 64.2 200 128

septimus quaid
04/6/2021
09:28
Results are due within a week or so. Possibly some punters taking out options, or perhaps something's leaking.
Best to take querky auction results on thinly traded stocks with a pinch of salt and anything outside market hours. Set your monitor to mid-price and follow that imho.

boadicea
04/6/2021
07:39
Anyone any idea what’s going on here? Strange moves yesterday and this morning. Tiny volumes.
techno20
05/5/2021
16:24
(Sharecast News) - Analysts at Canaccord Genuity raised their target price on software and services firm Eckoh from 75.0p to 88.0p on Wednesday, stating the group was "well-positioned" for the 2022 trading year and beyond.
Canaccord said Eckoh had posted revenues in line with market expectations and adjusted underlying earnings "slightly" above the prior, meaning that second-half revenues had increased a low-single-digit percentage and adjusted EBIT was flat.

The Canadian bank views this as "an impressive performance" considering the second half of the prior year was "essentially pre-Covid-19".

Canaccord noted that Eckoh's statement also outlined 2022 full-year guidance for revenue and profit to be comparable with 2021 before "material year-on-year revenue and profit growth" in the 2023 trading year, leading the analysts to reinstate their forecasts for 2022 and 2023 and remain with their 'buy' recommendation.

"Our new target of 88.0p reflects a premium of 15-20% on an EV/sales valuation (annualised to December 2022) vs the UK IT sector (at 5.5x). We believe Eckoh shares should trade at this premium since the non-Covid-19 sales growth and profit margin are both above the sector average," said the analysts.

septimus quaid
05/5/2021
14:29
I don't disagree with that. It's just that you never know when the market will focus on their market leading position in a rapidly growing market and decide to value it according to where it will be in 2-3 years rather than where it is now.
wjccghcc
05/5/2021
14:18
Cheers WJ, I understand all that and agree that ECK is a good quality company and has a lot of potential.

I just don't see much upside for 2021 at least - particularly given the stated stagnation for this year - as I consider the valuation to be too high for the business as it currently stands. Of course if there are some further large contract wins then sentiment will likely take the share price on, but without these imho the share price may drift for some time.

rivaldo
05/5/2021
09:01
A bit harsh rivaldo. It's a combination of several factors which are masking the underlying progress.

1. Pandemic meant they've lost a year's progress due to delays in signing new business, particularly in H1. Recurring revenue nature and onboarding time of new contracts means they won't see the benefit of what they have signed for 6 months so the second half of this next financial year.

2. Withdrawal from US support business to transition to Secure Payments masks the growth in the latter. $ weakness also a headwind.

3. Transition from on premise secure payment installations (with upfront revenues) to more cloud based installations (less upfront revenues but more recurring revenues).

4. UK revenues linked to transactional volumes (congestion charge etc.) which were hit last year and will take a while to recover this year.

They are the market leader in contact centre secure payment protection with only two competitors. PCI-PAL is valued at 17x revenues and will be loss making for the next 2 years. Eckoh's US revenues are likely to more than double over the next 3-4 years to $30mm ARR. Value that at 8x and the UK business is thrown in for free, as is any rest of world expansion through the channel partner network they're now investing in.

And that's ignoring any takeover interest from the US.

wjccghcc
05/5/2021
08:34
ECK made 1.08p EPS to March 2018. They're now forecast to make 1.4p EPS to March 2022. That's a pretty poor 30% growth in four years for what's supposed to be a high growth company on a huge premium rating.

Even allowing for 1.8p EPS in the year to March 2023 - almost two years away - the P/E at 77.5p will still be 43.

The cash is 6% of the m/cap, and they have decent recurring income and good prospects in the USA, but that hasn't stopped them stagnating for some time now even given the pandemic.

The share price just seems far too high imo. But then that's always been the way with ECK, so WTFDIK?!!

I like the company and its prospects, but simply cannot see material upside from these levels, at least not for some time yet. Cue huge contract wins :o))

rivaldo
05/5/2021
07:54
With no growth in FY 21 and FY22 and relying on no 3dr wave of Covid for 23 reduced to long term hold in pricey market
zipstuck
26/4/2021
09:50
there seems to be consistent trades at the 80p mark this morning
septimus quaid
19/4/2021
22:57
I started this thread in 2013 when I bought back in at around 24p, although I have been in and out since 2004. So I have developed a something of 'a feel' about its progress over many years of holding. Starting this year at 64p, ECK has so far has had a promising run, closing today at 79p, powered by recent announcements of Cloud based payment security systems that have resulted in securing sizeable Contract wins in the US. ECK's always been driven by News of Contract wins and usually retraces when BoD go quiet. This time is different as ECK has largely hung on to its gains. This suggests to me something is happening behind the scenes.
mazarin
14/4/2021
08:51
This stock is going places possibly to the moon lol
tnt99
06/4/2021
21:39
Increased my position here today. Quarterly triangle at 90p
matt123d
06/4/2021
15:47
Interesting spike up at the end of the day, something brewing?
septimus quaid
01/4/2021
16:24
Exaggerated fall today as a tiny Uncrossed Trade (17 shares) went through @ 73p just after the closing bell yesterday
septimus quaid
30/3/2021
08:08
zipstuck, £7.9mm was across the UK and US businesses. At end Sep, new US secpay cntrcts were $5.9mm, so H2 was $5.7mm vs $3.4mm for H220 so there may be an element of seasonality. I think the point they wanted to make was that despite the on premise contracts being limited by COVID, the Cloud ones have taken up the slack.

US Secpay new contract wins for the last 4 halves have been $5.7/5.9/3.4/7.3mm.

wjccghcc
30/3/2021
07:34
zipstuck - please explain as don't understand
red army
30/3/2021
07:15
Investors should look carefully at this announcement and compare to the contracts won at the end of September which was 7.9
zipstuck
18/3/2021
10:39
Will Eckoh buy Netcall?
hybrasil
17/3/2021
17:49
Look at the profit in relation to the valuation in the market place. Difficult to see an improvement in share price without a major effort in North America. Maybe a new franchiseee would be the answer.
rabbrooks
17/3/2021
16:52
your horse is about to leave the parade ring
hybrasil
10/3/2021
07:23
It is frustrating, to say the least, to watch the share price of their UK listed smaller competitor rocketing upwards whilst eckoh slowly go south, no news will always leave a share price to drift downwards as investors have no information, eckoh need to deliver on the news/contract wins front, and reasonably soon, if they want to deliver any sort of decent share price performance.
nickelmer
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