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| Share Name | Share Symbol | Market | Type | Share ISIN | Share Description |
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| Oxford Metrics Plc | LSE:OMG | London | Ordinary Share | GB0030312788 | ORD 0.25P |
| Price Change | % Change | Share Price | Shares Traded | Last Trade
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| 0.70 | 1.45% | 48.95 | 671,139 | 16:35:09 |
| Bid Price | Offer Price | High Price | Low Price | Open Price | |
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| 48.40 | 49.50 | 49.80 | 48.00 | 48.40 | |
| Industry Sector | Turnover | Profit | EPS - Basic | PE Ratio | Market Cap |
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| Computers & Software-whsl | 41.46M | 758k | 0.0061 | 81.64 | 60.34M |
| Last Trade Time | Trade Type | Trade Size | Trade Price | Currency |
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| 15:58:12 | O | 240,000 | 47.9063 | GBX |
| Date | Time | Source | Headline |
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| 25/4/2025 | 07:00 | UK RNS | Oxford Metrics PLC H1 Trading Update and Board Change |
| 24/4/2025 | 07:00 | UK RNS | Oxford Metrics PLC Transaction in Own Shares |
| 22/4/2025 | 07:00 | UK RNS | Oxford Metrics PLC Transaction in Own Shares |
| 16/4/2025 | 07:00 | UK RNS | Oxford Metrics PLC Transaction in Own Shares |
| 14/4/2025 | 13:56 | UK RNS | Oxford Metrics PLC Holding(s) in Company |
| 14/4/2025 | 07:00 | UK RNS | Oxford Metrics PLC Transaction in Own Shares |
| 11/4/2025 | 10:19 | UK RNS | Oxford Metrics PLC Holding(s) in Company |
| 11/4/2025 | 07:00 | UK RNS | Oxford Metrics PLC Transaction in Own Shares |
| 10/4/2025 | 07:00 | UK RNS | Oxford Metrics PLC Transaction in Own Shares |
| 09/4/2025 | 07:00 | UK RNS | Oxford Metrics PLC Transaction in Own Shares |
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| 03/4/2025 | 08:55 | OMG - Global leader in Motion Capture Systems just Ј10m | 1,907 |
| 25/6/2021 | 09:41 | please ignore (just omg mucking around) | - |
| 23/10/2013 | 09:48 | OMG - Chart looking very Bullish - Rising steadily | 1,565 |
| 19/8/2008 | 08:44 | Jade Goody worth Ј8m | 46 |
| 05/12/2005 | 11:11 | Ugly Peeps here | 20 |
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Posted at 27/4/2025 09:20 by Oxford Metrics Daily Update Oxford Metrics Plc is listed in the Computers & Software-whsl sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker OMG. The last closing price for Oxford Metrics was 48.25p.Oxford Metrics currently has 125,061,834 shares in issue. The market capitalisation of Oxford Metrics is £62,280,793. Oxford Metrics has a price to earnings ratio (PE ratio) of 81.64. This morning OMG shares opened at 48.40p |
Posted at 03/4/2025 08:55 by nchanning Oxford metrics did have 17m in revenue from the USA in FY24 . But the UK only subject to 10% tariff which will actually give them a competitive advantage over some other foreign competitors . Domestic competitors will surely have tariffs on their supply chain , and pressure on wages in an inflationary environment . And the very high gross margin gives a little space to give a percentage point or two away And of course the Vicon business is already in the price for nothing ! |
Posted at 28/3/2025 11:29 by nchanning It's amazing that you can still essentially get the Vicon business for free, with the cash pile and the smart manufacturing businesses being worth almost the entire market cap . Markerless is not going to replace Vicon's existing marker based motion capture . Markers will still be necessary where you need the highest degree of precision . It's going to open up a whole new bunch of use cases where time and ease of use are the priorities .At this price the stock is very low risk with a very large upside possibility imo |
Posted at 19/2/2025 22:01 by value hound Update from Simon T:Oxford Metrics: Cash-rich software stock makes smart moves Aim: Share price: 57.5p Bid-offer spread: 57-58p Market value: £72.8mn Net cash equates to more than half the market capitalisation Prospective dividend yield of 6.4 per cent Earnings recovery forecast in 2025-26 financial year Oxford Metrics (OMG), the smart sensing software company servicing life sciences, entertainment and engineering markets, downgraded earnings guidance last autumn. The issue is that customers are being more cautious, which has lengthened buying cycles and pushed several opportunities in the sales pipeline into the 2025 financial year. In particular, the entertainment sector has been impacted by the slowdown in the global games industry and subsequent contraction in content creation. The segment reported 23 per cent lower annual revenue of £15.9mn, representing 38 per cent of the group total. Both the life sciences and engineering segments, accounting for 56 per cent of Oxford Metrics’ annual revenue, performed better but still reported single-digit revenue declines due to delays in academic funding. As a result, last year’s revenue of £41.5mn was well below 2023's figure of £44.2mn. Moreover, the revenue shortfall had an accentuated impact on earnings because Oxford Metrics is a high-margin business that boasts a gross margin of 66 per cent. In fact, pre-tax profit halved from £7.5mn to £3.7mn, albeit the group was up against a tough comparable in the prior year. The share price has performed poorly since I included the shares in my portfolio last year. That said, there is recovery potential. Catalysts for recovery Industrial Vision Systems (IVS), a specialist in developing machine vision software systems acquired by the group 15 months ago, has closed several deals worth more than £1.3mn in sales, which has contributed to a healthy order book. Oxford Metrics’ smart manufacturing division has made a good start to the new financial year, too, having made a maiden £2.9mn revenue contribution in the 2024-25 financial year. Also, the directors highlight progress in markerless technology, a key area of future growth. Ahead of commercial launch in the current financial year, three more blue-chip partners have entered the beta testing programme to take the total to 10 cornerstone customers. The board is also deploying the group’s net cash (pre-IFRS 16 leases) of £50.7mn to make earnings-accretive bolt-on acquisitions. Post the 2024 financial year-end, Oxford Metrics acquired Gloucester-based The Sempre Group, a measurement specialist that helps blue-chip manufacturers across the aerospace, automotive, medical, energy and precision engineering sectors to be more efficient and improve quality. Sempre was purchased for £5.5mn, representing a reasonable multiple of eight times the 2023 pre-tax profit of £0.7mn. So, after factoring in a maiden operating profit contribution from Sempre, a doubling of IVS operating profit to £0.6mn, £1.6mn of interest income and a small rise in central overheads, analysts at Progressive Equity Research expect adjusted pre-tax profit to edge up to £3.8mn on 13 per cent higher revenue of £47.9mn in the 12 months to 30 September 2025. On this basis, the shares are rated on a forward price/earnings (PE) ratio of 22. However, that rating is inflated due to the bumper cash pile. After factoring in a £6mn ongoing share buyback programme and settling the Sempre acquisition, analysts expect net cash of £38.3mn (pre-IFRS 16 lease liabilities) at the 2025 financial year-end (30 September 2025), a sum that equates to 52 per cent of the current market capitalisation. On this basis, Oxford Metrics’ enterprise valuation equates to 15.6 times bottom-of-the-cycle operating profit estimates of £2.2mn for the current financial year, and 9.9 times next year’s forecasts, a rating that fails to reflect the earnings recovery potential. Buy. |
Posted at 10/2/2025 16:30 by davidosh OMG are on the Mello show tonight...Join us for MelloMonday on tonight at 5.30pm. The programme for the evening is as follows: 5:30pm Company Presentation from Time Finance plc 6pm Company Presentation from React Group plc 6:30pm Educational Presentation 6:45pm Company Presentation from Hercules Site Services plc 7:15pm BASH (Buy, Avoid, Sell, Hold) Panel featuring Mark Simpson (OMG) and Damian Cannon (SAAS) For more information, click here: There are lots of interesting sessions and all annual pass holders and individual ticket holders will be sent a recording of the show within 48 hours of registering. For half price tickets, use code MMSTOCKO50. |
Posted at 07/2/2025 10:55 by rivaldo FYI Techinvest's January issue had OMG as a Buy. It concludes thus, noting the £59.7m or 45p per share of cash:"While sales conversion rates in the final month of the year were below historical levels, the entertainment segment was affected most, reflecting the slowdown in the global games industry and subsequent content creation contraction. Nevertheless, the board confirmed that trading in the new financial year had started in line with management expectations and with a continued focus on delivering cost and efficiency gains. New products are in the pipeline to stimulate growth and this includes the Markerless technology which the company has identified as a major driver of Vicon sales in the medium term. Markerless is in the final stages of commercialisation and is expected to make a modest revenue contribution in fiscal 2025. Alongside Vicon, Oxford Metrics now has two other smaller divisions, both acquired over the last twelve months. Industrial Vision Systems is a specialist in machine vision software and technology for high precision, automated quality control systems, while recent acquisition Sempre is a world leader in motion measurement analysis. With these acquisitions Oxford Metrics has broadened its product offering and created a platform for new areas of growth, which the group’s cash-rich balance sheet can help fund. Broker consensus forecast is for net profit of £3.23m and earnings per share of 2.6p for fiscal2025, rising to £4.1m and 3.3p respectively for fiscal 2026. Trading on a cash adjusted P/E of 4.3 for the current year, we feel that the shares are well placed for recovery as trading at Vicon returns to more normalised patterns. Buy" |
Posted at 22/12/2024 08:54 by lennonsalive From the Small Cap Newsletter Oxford Metrics finally get round to presenting to individual shareholders via the InvestorMeetCompany platform a week after releasing their results. Of the 10 or so questions that SCLers reported asking on the call, only one was answered and that only partially. What little confidence remained in the new management team isn't so much ebbing away as flooding out. Unsurprisingly, the share price joined the receding tide. |
Posted at 05/12/2024 10:24 by sev22 Analysts are being too cautious with this software stock.Earnings downgrade hurts the smart sensing and software group, but it’s still well placed to recover. Published on December 3, 2024 by Simon Thompson *Full-year revenue down 6 per cent to £41.5mn *Adjusted pre-tax profit halved to £3.7mn *Underlying earnings per share (EPS) down from 5.3p to 3p *Dividend per share up 18 per cent to 3.25p *Closing net cash of £50.7mn (39p) *5.5 per cent dividend yield Smart sensing and software group Oxford Metrics (OMG:59.5p) issued a profit warning at the end of its financial year, so the sharp fall in profits had been well flagged (‘Oxford Metrics’ warning hits shares – but all is not lost’, 23 September 2024). The issue is that customers are being more cautious, which has lengthened buying cycles and pushed several opportunities in the sales pipeline into the new financial year. In particular, the entertainment sector was impacted by the slowdown in the global games industry and subsequent contraction in content creation. The segment reported 23 per cent lower revenue of £15.9mn, representing 38 per cent of the group total. Both the life sciences and engineering segments, accounting for 56 per cent of Oxford Metrics’ annual revenue, performed better but still reported single-digit revenue declines due to delays in academic funding. So, although revenue was at the top of the revised £40mn-£42mn range in the 12 months to 30 September 2024, it was still well below last year’s revenue of £44.2mn. The impact on earnings was accentuated because Oxford Metrics is a high-margin business that generates a gross margin of 67 per cent, a contributory factor behind the 51 per cent decline in adjusted pre-tax profit to £3.7mn on 6 per cent lower annual revenue. Prospects for the new financial year. Industrial Vision Systems (IVS), a specialist in developing machine vision software systems that was acquired 13 months ago, has closed several large deals worth more than £1.3mn in sales, which has contributed to a healthy order book. The group’s smart manufacturing division has made a good start, too, having made a maiden £2.9mn revenue contribution in the 2024-25 financial year. In addition, the board is deploying the group’s bumper cash pile to make earnings-accretive bolt-on acquisitions. The recent acquisition of Gloucester-based The Sempre Group, a measurement specialist that helps blue-chip manufacturers be more efficient and improve quality, looks like a smart deal (‘This company's recovery potential is severely underrated’, 4 November 2024). It is part of Oxford Metrics' drive into smart manufacturing and offers synergies with IVS. Sempre offers a range of bespoke metrology solutions to address quality and automation challenges in the aerospace, automotive, medical, energy and precision engineering sectors. For instance, its technology is used to measure the wingspans for aircraft and precision of bone screws and joint implants. Sempre was purchased for £5.5mn, representing a reasonable multiple of eight times the 2023 pre-tax profit of £0.7mn. Impact on forecasts. Although analysts at Deutsche Numis see some encouraging pockets of activity, they feel it is prudent to reflect more caution in their forecasts until there is more consistent demand recovery. So, even after factoring in a maiden £0.8mn operating profit contribution from Sempre, a doubling of IVS operating profit to £0.6mn, £1.5mn of interest income and a £0.3mn rise in central overheads to £3.8mn, the brokerage only expects adjusted pre-tax profit to edge up to £3.9mn (17 per cent downgrade) on 15 per cent higher revenue of £47.9mn in the 12 months to 30 September 2025. Expect net cash of £46.7mn (30 November 2024) to fall to £41.8mn (30 September 2025) after factoring in a £6mn share buy-back programme and the Sempre acquisition. The downgrade is disappointing, but it’s already factored into the valuation as the group’s enterprise valuation of £30mn equates to 12.5 times the bottom-of-the-cycle operating profit estimates of £2.4mn for the new financial year. Indeed, Deutsche Numis’s target price of 95p (from 110p) still supports 61 per cent share price upside. Moreover, shareholders will be pressing management to deploy more of the cash pile on bolt-on acquisitions, so there is scope for mergers and acquisition-driven upgrades as the year progresses. I certainly would not be selling out the high-yielding shares at this depressed level. HOLD. |
Posted at 04/11/2024 17:09 by boystown Tipped by Simon Thompson today:This company's recovery potential is severely underrated - £5.5mn earnings-accretive acquisition - £6mn share buy-back programme - Rated on eight times operating profit estimates to enterprise valuation Shares in smart sensing and software group Oxford Metrics (OMG: 59.5p) have yet to react to the smart-looking acquisition of Gloucester-based The Sempre Group, a measurement specialist that helps blue-chip manufacturers be more efficient and improve quality – ultimately saving time and money. Trusted by more than 25 well-known manufacturers including Renishaw, Micro-Vu and Jenoptik, Sempre offers its customers an extensive range of bespoke metrology solutions to address quality and automation challenges in the aerospace, automotive, medical, energy and precision engineering sectors. For instance, customers use its technology for the measurement of wingspans for airliners and measuring compliance and the precision of bone screws and joint implants. The acquisition is part of Oxford Metrics' drive into smart manufacturing and offers synergies with last autumn’s acquisition of Industrial Vision Systems (IVS), a specialist in developing machine vision software systems. Sempre will benefit from having access, advice and the resources to scale and expand into new markets and geographies, while IVS will gain access to Sempre's established sales and services organisation and benefit from its industry knowledge, customers, products and markets. Importantly, Sempre’s directors will continue to lead the business forward, and founder and seller Mike John will stay on in a consulting role to ensure a smooth integration. Oxford Metrics is paying a £5mn cash consideration on completion, and there is a £0.5mn contingent earn-out based on performance targets being achieved. That seems fair given that Sempre has delivered annualised revenue growth of 8 per cent over the past four years and reported pre-tax profit of £0.7mn on revenue of £6.5mn in 2023. Current trading is consistent with a further improvement in performance, so the exit multiple of eight times 2023 pre-tax profit is reasonable, as is a multiple of 3.3 times book value. Immediately earnings enhancing Furthermore, the deal is immediately earnings enhancing. That’s because Oxford Metrics ended the 2024 financial year with net cash of £50mn (38p), so will be funding the deal from its cash resources. Alongside the announcement, Oxford Metrics also announced a £6mn on-market share buy programme, a sensible use of its cash pile given that it should also be accretive to earnings per share (EPS). Although analysts at Progressive Equity Research have not adjusted their forecasts ahead of the group’s annual results on 3 December 2024, clearly there is upside to their current expectations of a sharp recovery in adjusted pre-tax profit from £3.4mn to £4.7mn and underlying EPS from 2.2p to 3p in the 12 months to 30 September 2025. A near-11-month contribution from Sempre should add £0.65mn to that profit forecast alone. It’s worth flagging that Progressive Equity expects the £77.6mn market capitalisation group to deliver free cash flow of £9.6mn (7.4p) from operating cash flow of £10.2mn in the current financial year, so part of the investment in the acquisition and share buybacks will be funded from internal cash flow. In fact, Oxford Metrics could buy back 10mn shares in issue for £6mn and still have a retained cash pile of £42mn by September 2025 after factoring in the £5mn upfront cash cost of acquiring Sempre, £3.6mn cash cost of a dividend that underpins a 5 per cent prospective dividend yield, and £2.5mn of other investments. However, shareholders are likely to be pressing the board to make further similar acquisitions to accelerate the profit recovery after the recent profit warning (‘Oxford Metrics’ warning hits shares – but all is not lost’, 24 September 2024). Trading on price-to-book value parity and on eight times operating profit estimates to enterprise valuation, prospects for a 50 per cent-plus earnings recovery in the 2024-25 financial year (after factoring in Sempre’s contribution) is simply not in the price. For good measure, there is positive divergence on the chart, suggesting that the share price has bottomed out and a break-out from a base formation could be on the cards. A close above the 65p price level would be confirmation. Recovery buy. |
Posted at 29/10/2024 20:33 by pugugly Share buyback a destruction of shareholders assets - share price goes down by some 2p rounded, since the start of the programme. Why? |
Posted at 29/10/2024 19:48 by rossco I have previously held OMG.I almost bought back in in June when an “profits in line” announcement was made and the price fell below 100p. Fortunately I decided just to monitor the price and with the news in September of profits going to be materially below expectations I have left well alone. Looking at Progressive’s forecast of PBT of 3.4m I reckon that 70% will be finance income from the hoard of cash. Can’t say I am impressed with board announcements since CEO was appointed in September last year. Even the share buyback is not stopping the share price decline. Going to wait until the next results announcement before making a decision to buy. |
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