Manpower Software Share Discussion Threads

[ed winchester] 27/6/2003 14:27

nurdin

look at what time those trades were done. At the time they were carried out the price was 15.5p - 16.5p.

[nurdin] 27/6/2003 14:17

erm buys? trades well under bid at 16.25 .

[cockneyrebel] 27/6/2003 10:35

Chart's starting to look pretty horny - a nice 45% upward trend.

Results just a month or so away and the chairman buying by the million - what more could you want?

What you'd like big contract wins and the chairman to say they will be profitable in H2 too? They've done that too.

CR

[ed winchester] 27/6/2003 09:18

and up ticks the offer

[ed winchester] 26/6/2003 10:27

bid creeping up. would love to see these go through 20p.

[cockneyrebel] 26/6/2003 10:07

Don't know - I would imagine there are lots of companies that would like MNS.

Seems a great little business in its own right tho, with the Chiarman expecting profits for H1 and backing that with his own wallet.

Results just over one month away - watch these rise as they approach imo.

CR

[maxbubble] 26/6/2003 09:02

Would Northgate Info Solutions be a buyer for this little company?? I imagine it would fit in well with their business ...any thoughts anyone?

[cockneyrebel] 23/6/2003 13:21

Well I did point out on the post 2 up that sometimes you have to bite the bullet and buy instead of waiting.

I wonder how high these will go before the results while investors sit and watch?

Glad I added in the dip.

CR

[maxbubble] 19/6/2003 15:44

for what its worth - they did say they were now trading profitably - so hopefully no more cash will be needed - Mr Drummond buying so much is fasinating and with his VC background I would not be surprised to see a takeover - he may be buying to push the price up in order to prevent someone taking them out on the cheap? its seems S&F would get out at any price so he would not have much support there.

[cockneyrebel] 19/6/2003 15:25

Investors will do the same again here - sit an watch instead of buying. Then when a bit of decent news comes outy the price will be up 10% before the broker answers the phone. Sometimes ya have ta bite the bullet or forever watch from the sidelines.

CR

[robward] 19/6/2003 15:21

Predator
I have just checked the trades for the 29th May and there isnt one for 1.4m shares. I must admit I find it confusing when shares are sold but no record made ?. However in answer to your question it could well be that the 1m shares Mr Drummond bought recently were part of S & F sale. ?? Who knows ???

With regard to the results in August, I agree that providing no more cash needs to be raised and the company can at last turn in a full-year profit then yes the shares should move ahead.

Best Wishes

[cockneyrebel] 18/6/2003 22:42

Will have to see :-)

CR

[cockneyrebel] 17/6/2003 08:15

Thank you to those 2-3 sellers yesterday pm - grabbed another 10K this am at just under 15.5p.

Roll on August results.

CR

[predator2] 17/6/2003 00:55

wide any buys or sells over 10k are delayed,so a sell in the background?

[widemouthfrog] 17/6/2003 00:49

what caused that ?

[cockneyrebel] 16/6/2003 22:08

Was out this afternoon fishing.

As nice as it was to go out seeing MNS on a high its just as pleasant to think I have a nice buying opportunity tomorrow.

I'll buy the dips - next results are in early August - these will be much higher come then imo.

CR

[robward] 16/6/2003 13:59

Hi Guys
Well I'm quite happy with how the company is progressing, the shares will continue to rise as and when new contracts are won and at the point the company can confidently predict a full-year profit. Of course there will be profit-taking along the way but I for one will continue to hold as the companies software is truely excellent. Apart from the vote of confidence from Mr Drummond, if you check the company website and look at the employment opportunites you will see they are growing the business. As of today 6 vacancies (cant believe 6 staff have left when I.T ,market is depressed)

Good luck to all long term holders

Rob Ward

[predator2] 16/6/2003 11:20

nice start to the week.

[cockneyrebel] 15/6/2003 16:13

That's it - 'city experts' in quotes - I like it.

They should all carry a government wealth warning imo 'City Experts can seriously damage your wealth' or similar.

CR

[maxinvestor] 15/6/2003 13:11

Thanks Ed great read. Re. BDI is was only re-iterating what I had read elsewhere in a comment from a so called 'City Expert' stating they were a competitor.

Regards

Max

[cockneyrebel] 14/6/2003 23:20

Cheers Ed, very interesting.

CR

[ed winchester] 14/6/2003 22:16

Manpower software is not really in the same niche area as bond international. Neither is bond much of a competitor MNS (and vice versa). Bond International Software plc is a developer and producer of software for the recruitment sector and recruitment departments for coorporates.

Manpower produces much more complex and high end product software, and is a producer of manpower planning, staff scheduling and resource optimisation software for commercial and public sector organisations.

This from the broker note produced in August 2002 :

THE COMPETITION

Manpower has the only planer for workforce over time

Despite the fact that the Human Resources (HR) software segment is dominated by giants such as Oracle's Human Resources Management System (ORCL) and People Soft (PSFT), which already sell their solutions in Manpower's target markets, none of the competitors has developed an effective solution for workforce planning and scheduling with a time dimension. Therefore, MAPS is typically used by Operations Management, not by HR Departments. While MAPS may use data fed from the typically static information stored by HR packages, MAPS data is used dynamically to make an operational contribution to the customer's business.

Manpower's planning solutions enable companies to allocate the right people (with the right skills) to the right place at the right time into the future. This module is not available in regular HR solutions as most organisations manage their workforce on a stable on-going basis without the need to regularly allocate and deploy resources as part of their operations.

Therefore, Manpower Software has managed to make a significant inroad into the cruise operators market where the need to constantly allocate the right employees to the right ship and to be able to monitor who is on the ship at any time, is a crucial part of the fleet operation.

A market research note provided by Shrine, a group of HR practitioners within the National Health Service (NHS), indicates that the NHS does not have any capabilities in monitoring and planning its workforce. This is especially important as the UK government plans to invest heavily in order to improve the efficiency of the health system. Manpower Software has a working solution that can easily solve many of the resource allocation and planning problems now facing the NHS and therefore, we believe this is a very exciting potential market for the company where there is no direct competition.

[cockneyrebel] 14/6/2003 11:23

I thought BDI were more focused on recruitment software?

Anyway, MNS are certainly pulling in some big contracts - a few NHS ones and these will fly imo.

Seem to have got well oversold in March/April.

CR

[predator2] 14/6/2003 00:40

wide
this ones moving up on tiny trades v short of stock!.