Filtronic Share Discussion Threads

[investordave] 31/10/2018 10:51

Agreed. No need to ramp FTC. Quality will always out.

[yump] 31/10/2018 10:41

I don't think you should be encouraging people to buy just because the share was significantly higher a while ago. Just being lower is not a reason to buy and at best that is misguided posting.

That's pretty much the same 'argument' as saying a share is only 1p so its cheap and just imagine how much you'd get if it reached 10p.

I suggest folk look at the forecasts and the rating and then decide whether a buy is justified from their own risk perspective.

There's no need to deliberately mislead people to make yourself money, even if you are anonymous.

[rubberbullets] 31/10/2018 10:33

31p just a month ago, bargain i think

[rubberbullets] 31/10/2018 09:00

Filtronic now has a spring in its step thanks to a flurry of orders and as it positions itself for the roll-out of 5G, the next generation of mobile technology that will mean much greater data speeds and capacity.



The company recently announced production orders worth US$2 million for its Massive MIMO antenna product, which enables the use of beamforming techniques essential to 5G networks.

But as Filtronic is often criticised for its lumpy revenues performance, other orders away from the mobile market have also been welcomed by investors. These include a multi-year deal with a major European defence contractor to provide microwave modules for use in aerospace radar systems.

[rubberbullets] 31/10/2018 08:44

Nokia has demonstrated 5G Massive MIMO technology with Sprint in the US, with the networking giant also securing €500 million in funding from the European Investment Bank to accelerate its 5G R&D.

[rubberbullets] 31/10/2018 08:39

Taking off can see 23p in short order

[tomduck] 30/10/2018 19:07

People tend to panic in tense situations plus many guys investing on AIM have stop losses and are playing on margin, so there will have been many margin calls.

This share is great value right now imo.

[investordave] 30/10/2018 16:04

I'm still not clear why so many sold out in the first place. Just wish they all had to pay more to get back in.

[rubberbullets] 30/10/2018 15:44

buys seem to be returning

[rubberbullets] 30/10/2018 15:40

Hot news expect rns soon imho
As this issue goes to press in November,
progress is continuing on both the
5G device and test-and-measurement
fronts. For example, Plextek RFI, a UK
design house specializing in microwave
and millimeter-wave IC design,
Figure 4. 5G RF DVT Toolset making use of Keysight’s Test Automation Platform to allow users to create and customize RF and RRM test cases
Courtesy of Keysight Technologies
announced that it has developed a
multichip module (MCM) to cover the
recently designated European Pioneer
Band for 26-GHz 5G applications. The
development of the front-end module
(FEM) was carried out in collaboration
with Filtronic Broadband.
hxxps://www.evaluationengineering.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/EE-December-2017-rs.pdf#page=14

[fuji99] 30/10/2018 09:44

Agree yump. If one is not a full time trader with loads of funds, then in the long term, trading will always yield to real losses. For every penny you gain, you'll give back £1 because greed coupled with blindness sometimes take over. Whereas if one doesn't have time to follow the stocks on a daily basis, the best winning way is to hold for the longer term all companies with promising prospects after doing your home work. If one Looks at just the trading fees, it is easy to understand that we can lose thousands in trading each year. While holding a good stock for 3/4 years, will result in no trading fee loss with the prospects of seeing the share price triple or quadruple. So my conclusion is that trading should be left to the full time traders while the normal PI's should mostly concentrate on the long term view.

[yump] 29/10/2018 14:24

I think the apparent possible success at trading is an illusion, compared to the apparent possible success holding longer term. It always looks as if you could trade successfully, because there's always shares that fly up. Picking them is the problem, but probably make loads more dosh, running courses showing people how to pick them, because you then have the winners and the losers all paying you for your 'knowledge'.

Whereas, if you actually understand a business, its usp's, its market etc. etc. then you've given yourself an edge, assuming you have a decent amount of common sense and reasoning ability, there actually is real evidence in support of holding longer term, because its backed up by the business itself. Trading has no basis other than sets of theories that work for a minority, possibly by accident, often back-rationalised and fail for the majority.

Of course, both work very well if you're inside.

[investordave] 29/10/2018 10:56

Just going to tuck my shares away for a couple of years. I've never been very successful at the trading lark.My biggest gains have always come from shares that I've held for the long term.

[chestnuts] 29/10/2018 10:29

Beeks

Spot on another 365 days and ftc could be 50p or more ,

[yump] 29/10/2018 10:28

If you bought at 26p here (which I didn't btw), this is not just short term noise.

It only makes sense to buy if you think the rating is reasonable for the current sets of results and forecasts and gives you a safety net. There was a chance to buy for ages between 9-12p. The information available then was pretty much the same as just before the blip. I think the only security in any of these shares that suddenly take off, is to have weighed up the prospects before attention focusses on them, so that the attention doesn't suddenly make you think you're onto a winner.

Perhaps the only way of doing that is by looking at shares to see which bit of them might generate some sudden excitement and judging by some of the dross that rises suddenly, that is a lottery.

[beeks of arabia] 29/10/2018 10:16

All good points. However you are not buying a utility here - this is a company about to go in to a high growth cycle, so it makes sense to buy now whatever you think of the wider market.Buying for the long term is about ignoring short term noise.

[brucie5] 29/10/2018 10:00

So difficult to judge. The market pauses in its downturn and the temptation is always to think, 'What am I missing if I don't jump back in?' This may be a good level, but then again, it may well fall further. I dare say lots of investors are ready re-enter 10p.

[investordave] 29/10/2018 09:57

You may be right but I do think the reaction to last week's statement was way over the top.

[chestnuts] 29/10/2018 09:11

Investor

People are very short term traders now a days, and with the state of the market i can see there is support at 12p and if that doesnt hold the gap at 10p is going to get filled, if you had asked me 4 weeks ago i would have bet against but not now

[chestnuts] 29/10/2018 09:11

Investor

People are very short term traders now a days, and with the state of the market i can see there is support at 12p and if that doesnt hold the gap at 10p is going to get filled, if you had asked me 4 weeks ago i would have bet against but not now

[investordave] 29/10/2018 08:51

I doubt it, at least in the short term. Too many short-sighted folks still offloading. I've no idea why.

[hamidahamida] 29/10/2018 08:26

Bounce back to 20p