Minorplanet Systems Share Discussion Threads

[davidosh] 09/2/2009 18:59

maty....Everyone thinks that because it did not deliver years ago it cannot deliver now. The restructuring and dividend payments will help and so long as earnings come through it will build from here for the yield alone. I suspect there will be consolidation in this sector at some stage this year.

You can also gain a little confidence from this which only happened two months ago...

The Company announces that on 8th December 2008, Terry Donovan, Chief Executive, purchased 200,000 ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company at 8.0p.


Mr Donovan is now interested in 1,127,409 ordinary shares, representing approximately 3.47% of the issued share capital of the Company.


That does help when you are firmly aligned with shareholders.

[maty] 09/2/2009 17:18

this share looks to profitable at this price..can't understand why this isn't motoring can anyone explain?

[davidosh] 27/1/2009 23:34

Anybody go to the Agm ? No RNS so far from the company..

[andre] 27/1/2009 18:00

Fancy that. MPS with a bid rumour. Who'd have thought? ;o)

[tracking] 27/1/2009 16:53

Just a rumour, but quite a strong one i think!

Might be worth a punt but who knows?

Tracking

[andre] 27/1/2009 08:53

Where did that little nugget come from, Tracking?

Bearing in mind that Terry Donnovan just bought shares at 8p. If he knows of a possible bid then they would have announced it. And if a bid was coming then due diligence would be happening too - so he couldn't not know now could he?

[davidosh] 26/1/2009 20:14

Anyone going to the AGM tomorrow in Leeds ?

[tracking] 26/1/2009 20:11

The bid will be February or more likely March

[roofer2] 25/1/2009 20:46

mudbath,
Dont want to ramp GNG theres enough of that on ADVFN as it is, just its my
hot tip for this year.

Chinese banks are in a very strong position right now, just a shame they only pay GNG twice a year, but they do an can pay and thats the point.

$35b being spent on the telecommunications infrastructure in China should bring in yet more contracts, time will tell.

Now wheres that bid for MPS, carnt be far away at this price

be lucky all
R2

[mudbath] 20/1/2009 17:37

Thanks Roofer2.Gives me something to do while I wait for weak holders to sell STL.(tight market)
ok....Dont want to upset bulls on the GNG thread,so off topic;-
Feel uneasy about China dominating their business,particularly as banks and the automotive sector are their target markets.
Receivables would be my most significant concern.At the interim stage,revenues amounted to £5,166,000 , YET receivables were a massive and increased £9,861,000----equating to the total equity of the company.Could be an indicator of potential/significant bad debts.
On balance therefore,I will remain with STL as my share of 2009.Pleased to see you are a holder.

[roofer2] 17/1/2009 10:07

mudbath,
I,m back in MPS again as i believe the take over could be back on again some
time this year,with the takeover bid belived to come from the USA.
The fall in the £ against the $ would make any takeover even cheeper than last years bid, the institution would vote yes this time, worth a punt at this price imo.

If Stilo(STL) has what you call massive potential in content management, GEONG
(GNG) are the ones in front signing all the big company contracts in China with a client list to ooh die for, DOR you wont need to do much.

IMO as i am a holder in both, good luck

R2

[mudbath] 15/1/2009 10:37

Andre=If you still contribute here-you did me a significant favour by convincing me to sell my MPS holdings when the shares were some 50pence.Once again,thanks.
I did try ,at the time to point you towards Redhall(then Booth Industries @37p...now £2.37)by way of acknowledgement.
Just out of interest,I have recently uncovered a further Micro-Cap with seemingly incredibly massive potential.The company is called Stilo(STL).Currently around 2.25pence to buy.I am confident that the M.C. will quadruple over a 6/24 month time frame.Their field is content management-the most dynamic growth area in the world today and where they claim justifiably to be market leaders.
Market capitalisation---------just £2.25million.
Cheers Mud.

[roofer2] 20/12/2008 12:33

The IAP,at present is a voluntary program Legislation changes in WA to accommodate IAP are unlikely to be in place until late 2009 or 2010.
Looking like IAP is the way forward, MPS are one of only 2 suppliers, no
point having DCUs by anyone else once legislation is passed, imo



R2

[pachnes] 20/12/2008 00:45

Just picked this up from Growth Company Investor. Apparently, the publication also selected EIT as one of it's 2009 tips:

Eagle-i soars

Companies: EIT

15/12/2008

Reinvigorated telematics minnow Eagle-i rose 22 per cent to 3.5p this morning on an upbeat trading update for the year to November.

In a market missive causing the shares to take flight, AIM-traded Eagle-i, a supplier of vehicle positioning and fleet management technology, flagged up a year of 'considerable progress' in the roll-out of new services and solutions.

Restructured under new CEO Ian Walmsley, Eagle-i is seeing strong interest from fleet operators in the fuel cost and vehicle insurance premium savings that its technology delivers. As well as helping businesses to drive down costs, the company's technology brings productivity gains and helps clients meet environmental and legislative compliance.

Since unveiling pared back losses of £527,000, on sales up 40 per cent at £740,000, for the half to May, the company has inked a number of significant tie-ups. These include a £4.5 million deal with home emergency services group HomeServe, a deal with part of Hitachi worth more than £1 million a year and a contract with insurance giant AXA.

Designing and making its own systems, the company is also benefiting from the 'upselling' of additional services to end-users in a trend that is swelling its gross margins. When the annual results are unveiled next March, investors can expect continued strong sales growth and gross margin expansion, the company said.

As high as 4.5p and as low as 0.88p over the past year, today's share price values Eagle-i at £11.4 million.

[tracking] 17/12/2008 21:11

With all due respect the way the market is at the moment and with little/no good news coming out of MP, this really does not look like it will make a jot of difference.

MP more than most need a miracle.

[roofer2] 17/12/2008 19:26

Lets see what this brings, looking good for the New Year.



Bought back in these last week, with directors buying and this news MPS
are looking way under valued

R2

[davidosh] 09/12/2008 11:56

Director Shareholdings

The Company announces that, on 8th December 2008, Terry Donovan, Chief Executive, purchased 200,000 ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company at 8.0p.

Mr Donovan is now interested in 1,085,742 ordinary shares, representing approximately 3.34% of the issued share capital of the Company.



I certainly wish mine had all been bought at 8p. At least it gives an indication that a director is confident of the future by putting his own cash behind the company. Mr Donovan was the one who effectively had to turn away the bidder at 40p just a few weeks ago so hopefully that will turn out to be a good decision but seems a disastrous one right now.

Consolidation must surely happen in this sector and soon.

[lucky punter] 05/12/2008 10:57

It is only good news if the staff are not required but you have to ask the question, why have them in the first place. MPS are in serious decline and it is only a matter of time before they need finacing and it will just not be available.

[bonio10000] 05/12/2008 09:11

eh????

Wtf?

releasing staff is good news? unbelievable.

GHTT - 5 Dec'08 - 08:52 - 792 of 792



Releasing staff is a good sign, shows they are addressing costs in a tough market. They do have a lot more staff than competitors.

[ghtt] 05/12/2008 08:52

Releasing staff is a good sign, shows they are addressing costs in a tough market. They do have a lot more staff than competitors.

Three years of profits and they trade at under 2x earnings, shows the lack of serious investors looking at this stock and the overwhelming negative sentiment from it's poor history prior to the re-financing. Prices decline on almost no volumes, so it's being driven by the market-makers, look at the trading volumes, virtually nothing.

[tracking] 04/12/2008 13:17

They released in the region of 17 staff this week.

[goldenmember] 04/12/2008 12:23

If you dig into the financial statements, £1.2m of the £1.5m profit has come from the release of provisions which explains why the cashflow was so weak! I agree sdavis that this one is looking sick! The balance sheet is unlikely to give the banks confidenceto lend working capital facilities and I am not certain shareholders will want to bail it out again!

[sdavis] 04/12/2008 11:09

hello....... hello....... hello....

anyone interested???????

Seems like MPS has no interest in it anymore.

Take out the goodwill and you have a company value of £900k. Dodgy outlook and debts to repay in the medium term....... not the best recipe for success.

I still think MPS will be one of the first to go, followed by TrackM8 and then Eagle Eye.