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KWS Keywords Studios Plc

1,302.00
44.00 (3.50%)
28 Mar 2024 - Closed
Delayed by 15 minutes
Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Keywords Studios Plc LSE:KWS London Ordinary Share GB00BBQ38507 ORD 1P
  Price Change % Change Share Price Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  44.00 3.50% 1,302.00 1,297.00 1,306.00 1,327.00 1,248.00 1,268.00 714,275 16:35:01
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
Business Services, Nec 780.45M 19.95M 0.2531 51.52 1.03B
Keywords Studios Plc is listed in the Business Services sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker KWS. The last closing price for Keywords Studios was 1,258p. Over the last year, Keywords Studios shares have traded in a share price range of 1,238.00p to 2,888.00p.

Keywords Studios currently has 78,816,970 shares in issue. The market capitalisation of Keywords Studios is £1.03 billion. Keywords Studios has a price to earnings ratio (PE ratio) of 51.52.

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01/9/2017
06:11
Interesting new appointments. I like them both.



pleased to announce the appointments of Georges Fornay and Charlotta Ginman as Non-Executive Directors with effect from 1 September 2017.

A French national, Georges (aged 60) has over 30 years' experience in the technology and video games sectors and currently sits on the board of France's second largest Independent games publisher, Focus Home Interactive, which is listed on the Alternext. He is also Associate Director and Co-Owner of Glory4Gamers, one of Europe's leading online eSport companies, which organises multi-player video game competitions for some of the most famous games around the world.

Georges was with Sony Computer Entertainment in a number of senior management roles from 1995 to 2011, including as CEO of the French and Swiss divisions and culminating in the role of European Senior Vice President from 2004-2011 where he oversaw the launch of the PlayStation Portable (PSP) in 2005 and PlayStation 3 in 2007. Prior to this, Georges spent nine years at Commodore, the last five years of which were as CEO of Commodore France PC Manufacturing and Distribution.

He has also held significant industry-wide roles including four years as President of SELL, France's Union of Entertainment Software Publishers, where he was responsible for representing and advocating the industry's and its 31 members' interests to the government.

Charlotta (aged 52) qualified as a Chartered Accountant before spending a career in investment banking and commercial organisations, principally in technology-related businesses. She began her career at Ernst & Young in 1989, and was then appointed to a series of senior roles in investment banking with UBS, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan both in London and Singapore, where she gained considerable M&A transactional experience.

Charlotta has also held senior roles within Nokia Corporation, including acting as Chief Financial Officer of its luxury mobile phone division Vertu Corporation Limited. Charlotta is an experienced NED, currently sitting on the Boards of Pacific Assets Trust plc, Polar Capital Technology Trust plc, Unicorn AIM VCT plc, Motif Bio plc and Consort Medical plc.

Ross Graham, Chairman of Keywords, commented:

"We are delighted to welcome Georges and Charlotta to the Group and we look forward to working with them both. Georges' strong industry and commercial expertise along with Charlotta's expert plc and Audit committee knowledge, will further strengthen the Board's existing capabilities as we continue to grow Keywords Studios both organically and by acquisition."




Georges Fornay holds or has held the following directorships in the five years preceding his appointment to the Board:
Current
Activitick SA
Focus Home Interactive SAS
Fornay Invest SARL
Fornay Enterprise Individuelle (EI)
GLHF SAS

Previous five years
Synidicat des Editeurs de Logiceiels de Loisirs


Charlotta Ginman holds or has held the following directorships in the five years preceding her appointment to the Board:
Current
Consort Medical plc
Motif Bio plc
Pacific Assets Trust Public Limited
Polar Capital Technology Trust plc
Unicorn AIM VCT plc

Previous five years
Cirrus Logic International (UK) Ltd
Kromek Group plc

grabster
01/9/2017
04:23
Scooper72 - I'm into LUCE - high growth and high ROCE - results on 11/9 which may trigger a breakout from the current consolidation.
glaws2
31/8/2017
21:04
Re post 225 dated 13/4/16.

It's been a great run from 250p 18 months ago to 1420p.

Approaching a whopping meteoric 600% return.

I'm out.

Hope it runs further for all. GLA


ALL IMO. DYOR.
QP

quepassa
31/8/2017
17:07
Breakouts seem to be good for me too - shares in demand
panic investor
31/8/2017
17:07
My Motley Fool small caps 'hidden winners' has just tipped LUCE as a buy. (MF were how I first got to hear about KWS). Had a couple of bad suggestions since, but this LED tech company sounds interesting- has anyone else here looked at them? (Sorry if this is off topic for some).
scooper72
31/8/2017
16:07
I frequently buy on breakouts. Which means I am often buying at alltime highs.
grabster
31/8/2017
15:50
Clearly, I was too hasty to sell earlier today.

I go to quite a bit of trouble to find these potential turns in the chart, but they don't always appear. Todays had around 70-80 % chance, on my estimate. On occasion they go the opposite way to that I had reckoned on, and obviously that could be the case here. we won't really know for a day or two.

The good news is that I took a great profit and left something for someone else. Also I can buy back more or less anytime the market is open, and as you alluded to above, it is risk off for me.

bamboo2
31/8/2017
12:42
Looks like I might have to wait a while for the dip the way the price has been last 2 days. Bamboo2, any more details regarding your chart?
scooper72
31/8/2017
11:50
I think I will just buy some more on the dips. Thinking to cut some of my 10% loss in PFC and add to to my KWS holding. Feels like a much less stressful option.
scooper72
31/8/2017
11:28
Well, O.K., if you're on such tenterhooks!! This implies, to me, one needing to check the share price very frequently, if not continuously, and being constantly 'on edge' as to what the next half hour might reveal. Better to invest in something you have more confidence in - or not at all, would be most people's view, I suspect.
aimingupward2
31/8/2017
11:23
Any money they have a big contract with FDEV for Jurassic - worldwide game !
panic investor
31/8/2017
11:22
TV would wipe out ZOO !
panic investor
31/8/2017
11:15
Yes, I agree. But there is still some logic if it's to do with intermittently reducing exposure to risk at moments when it looks like risk is raised. It does cost money to do that, but it's like being prepared to lose bits of money in the same way as 'losing' bits of money in insurance premium payments.
grabster
31/8/2017
09:25
Yes, grabster, if you're top slicing at intervals and retaining the profits, but not if you're part selling with a view to rebuying later at a higher price. Repeated "buy high, sell higher" operations,as bamboo put it, is most likely to yield a poorer net return than just sticking put and 'holding' - particularly with a company in a strong phase of market growth.
aimingupward2
31/8/2017
09:15
aimingupwards - regarding bamboo's policy of banking gains along the way. One way of understanding the logic in that is to recall the Ann Robinson tv series Weakest Link. Contestants who failed to shout 'Bank!' at appropriate intervals, preferring to always hang on for more, often lost the chance to bank anything at all.
grabster
31/8/2017
09:05
Thanks for that rivaldo - an interesting read.

We seem to be in similar companies! e.g. IQE and also ACSO where I've just put a query to you.

aimingupward2
31/8/2017
08:46
Interesting summary of where KWS is at now. I feel that the conclusion below gives an idea of why there's such enthusiasm for the share:



"On the longer business view, the brokers feel that acquisitions within the gaming services industry are still at an early stage and that Keywords will execute against their theses.

When asked if they were looking to expand beyond games, Day told Slator “expansion beyond games but into closely aligned verticals such as e-learning, film and tv, real money gaming, etc. remains as a part of our longer term roadmap and we do already have some clients in these spaces as well as clients whose content is being made interactive through the use of VR and AR.”"

rivaldo
31/8/2017
08:40
Well done, then. I'm really not wanting to criticise.
aimingupward2
31/8/2017
08:36
I had bought the lows heavily earlier in the week. :-)
bamboo2
31/8/2017
08:31
Quick response appreciated, bamboo. Each to his own, bur I can't see any rationale or sense in that.
aimingupward2
31/8/2017
08:25
aimingup,

I prefer to take small profit on a regular basis.

There is a turn marked on my chart for today, which I am guessing means down.

Want to reduce holdings before the weekend.

bamboo2
31/8/2017
08:21
Bamboo, what's the rationale behind partly selling up and then buying back later at a higher price?
aimingupward2
31/8/2017
08:16
Took profit. Back again soon.
bamboo2
30/8/2017
11:42
Looks like people buying in advance of results next month?
scooper72
29/8/2017
11:58
I added earlier. Looks like some good volume going through at these prices.
bamboo2
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