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| Share Name | Share Symbol | Market | Stock Type |
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| Research Now | RNOW | London | Ordinary Share |
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Posted at 16/7/2009 11:27 by investinggarden Reduce recommendation from Growth Company Investor |
Posted at 18/9/2008 16:31 by darcon The good news just keeps on coming. It seems they are putting all the pieces in place to create a leading global online market research company! If the share price doesn't rise then I am sure some media players or private equity players will become interested in picking up a bargain LAUNCH OF ASIAN OPERATIONS Chinese JV and New Asian Panels The Board of Research Now plc ("Research Now" or the "Group"), a leading global online fieldwork provider to the market research industry, is pleased to announce the launch of its Asian operations. The Group will initially be represented by two new operations in the region. The first in Shanghai, through a 75% owned joint venture in China in which local investors hold the balance, and the second in Singapore through a wholly-owned subsidiary. In addition to the new operations, the Group has also launched eight new proprietary online panels in the region to support the growing international demand for Asian opinion. The new Research Now owned online panels are in China, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea and India. The Asia-Pacific team at Research Now will be headed up by Jason Buchanan, Managing Director, Asia-Pacific. Commenting on the launch, Jason Buchanan said: "We are extremely excited to be rolling out our proven panel model in Asia. Expansion into this region follows demand from our existing client base worldwide for proprietary access to consumer opinions in one of the fastest growing economic areas in the world. Establishing offices on the ground in Asia will enable us to extend the highest quality level of service to new and existing clients local to the region." Chris Havemann, CEO of Research Now added: "Since our IPO in 2005, Research Now has successfully established itself as the market leader in Europe and one of the fastest-growing online panel companies in North America. Expansion into Asia will give us true proprietary panel coverage across each of the major regions of the world, a presence in Singapore and entry into China, fast becoming one of the world's largest research markets". |
Posted at 18/9/2008 06:45 by darcon Well, as predicted by commentators on this board RNOW has brought news of a significant B to B initiative with the signing of the agreement with Reed. This is potentially company transforming as new sources of revenue are opened.Someone picked-up approx £700k worth of shares yesterday so despite all the doom and gloom with the banks and commodities this is one little growth stock that at least one large investor believes shows promise. RNS copied below Agreement with Reed Business Information (Research Now) RNS Number : 5347D Research Now plc 16 September 2008 Date: Immediate release, Tuesday 16 September 2008 Contact: Chris Havemann (Chief Executive Officer) Andrew Cooper (Group Managing Director) Nathan Runnicles (Chief Financial Officer) Research Now Tel: +44 (0)20 7921 2400 Corporate Website: www.researchnow.co.u Alistair Mackinnon-Musson Mark Williams Nathan Field Henry Fitzgerald-O'Connor Hudson Sandler Canaccord Adams Tel: +44 (0)20 7796 4133 Tel: + 44 (0)20 7050 6500 Email: rn@hspr.com Research Now plc Agreement with Reed Business Information to create specialist "b2b" panels Research Now plc (AIM:RNOW), a leading international online fieldwork provider to the market research industry, is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement to create specialist business-to-business ("b2b") panels with Reed Business Information UK ("RBI"), part of Europe's largest online and offline b2b publisher. RBI brings over 100 market leading brands to an audience of 30 million decision makers worldwide through its multi-platform media of web products, magazines, exhibitions, conferences and industry awards. Research Now and RBI will build, operate and sell access to co-branded online panels constructed from specialist business professionals, drawn from the website users and magazine readers of RBI's publications. The first specialist panel of b2b industry decision makers will be "IT Decision Makers". Commenting on the agreement, Chris Havemann, Chief Executive of Research Now, said: "This agreement with RBI marks a significant new step in Research Now's development as one of the world's leading online panel specialists. Previously, all our market research panels have been consumer-based. Now, for the first time, thanks to the unparalleled access to industry decision makers afforded by RBI, we have the means to start providing our clients with highly targeted, specialist b2b opinion in key business sectors." Head of Research at Reed Business Information, Diane Lewis, commented: "This is an exciting initiative for RBI. Our partnership with Research Now provides us with access to a wealth of panel management experience to construct b2b panels that create a unique audience community and enhance the brand experience for our website users and magazine readers." |
Posted at 10/9/2007 19:24 by darcon Schroders have today slightly reduced their stake to 2,750,119 commonshares representing approximately 19.22%. However, this news should be read in light of Schroders having increased their stake on 12 July 2007 to 2,886,937 common shares representing approximately 20.2% after being at 17.7% as at 30 June 07 (according to RNOW's investor relations info on its website). So Schroders stake is still up on what it was at end of June. |
Posted at 17/7/2007 07:09 by markie7 schroders won't want a board position; is classic institutional investor, not activist. This will be Andy Brough behind the scenes here, who occasionally takes large instinctive positions in small caps. fair play to RNOW to getting him on board, will certainly underpin the price. |
Posted at 04/7/2007 00:11 by dosullivan What has happened to all of this? Will it recover?Friday, November 24, 2006 Tripled earnings as Research Now expands internationally The explosive progress of Google, now over $500 against my initial recommendation price of $100, highlights the rate at which advertising is moving on-line. Equally striking, although less widely reported, is the rate at which research is also moving on to the Internet. This is a sector in which I can hardly recommend shares fast enough. I have already tipped Datamonitor, Thomson Intermedia, YouGov and Toluna and they are all showing gains, some spectacular, on my recommendation prices. Research Now Business Summary Research Now is an independent European provider of online fieldwork to the market research industry. Now I have another red-hot stock to recommend in Research Now, a company, which operates online panels in the UK, continental Europe, the US and Australia and which is growing at a meteoric pace. Superb set of results expected Research Now is due to report its full year results for the year to 31 October on 10 January. On 8 November the company electrified investors by saying that it expected those results to show profits exceeding £1.6m, more than three times the £520,000 reported for the previous year. Sales also have increased strongly with over £9.6m expected versus £3.64m the year before. Research Now is a leading European online fieldwork provider to the market research industry. "Fieldwork" is the collection of survey data via personal interviews a process that Research Now undertakes online from its panel, which was already over 600,000 potential respondents as at August 2005 and bigger now (see below) making Research Now the owner of the largest online research panels in Europe. Typically market research fieldwork surveys have been undertaken on either a 'face to face' basis or via the telephone. Research Now believes that a structural shift in the research industry is underway towards undertaking fieldwork online largely a result of it often being cheaper, faster and better than traditional survey methods. Click here to see latest charts and prices for Research Now Market Data EPIC Company Share Price Market Cap £m PER Dividend Yield% 12-Month hi-lo Company Report RNOW Research Now 337.5 43.5 61.4 nil 337.5-162 -- Online surveys are where the growth is fastest In the US, online survey research has grown from constituting only approximately nine per cent of the total US survey research market in 2000 to being an estimated 29 per cent of the market in August 2005 when Research Now shares were floated at 130p. The company believes that the European online market lags the US at only four per cent market share, but it is rapidly increasing and is showing a similar growth rate to that experienced in the US. Research Now derives around 90 per cent of revenues from work subcontracted from market research agencies including projects for six out of 10 of the world's top agencies. The majority of revenue comes from repeat clients split between one-off, 'Custom' and ongoing projects, 'Trackers'. Although founded in 2000 the current business activity of performing online fieldwork was not established until 2003 when the business was relaunched as Research Now. In September 2006 the group announced the formation of its latest online national panel taking its coverage to 20 countries. The latest panel is in Hungary with its population of 10m of whom more than 3m are internet users and where consumer expenditure has nearly doubled in the last five years leading to increasing demand for consumer research. Click here to see latest charts and prices for Research Now Financial Data Fiscal Year Proj Turnover £m Pretax Profit Change % EPS Change % DPS Change % 2005 3.64 0.52 NA 5.22 NA NA 2006 * 12.5 NA NA NA 2007 * 14.7 NA NA NA EPS - Earnings per Share DPS - Dividend per Share A million panellists help company gauge what 600m consumers are thinking The launch of the Hungarian panel brings the company's total panel size to almost one million enabling clients to access a snapshot of the opinions of nearly 600m consumers in the largest markets of Europe. In the US the company recently opened its second office in San Francisco, adding to its existing office in New York. The company is addressing strong demand from North American clients for the group's European panel and fieldwork services. In addition to opening the new office the company also announced a string of high-level appointments. Investors are often wary of very fast-growing companies wondering if the pace of growth can be sustained. But Research Now has already achieved considerable scale in its operations and looks like a business capable of generating sales and profits at a multiple even of the newly forecast levels. The shares look exciting and reasonably priced on a multiple of around 24 times the upgraded earnings expected for 2006-07. |
Posted at 03/7/2007 18:18 by darcon The following article is from Investors Chronicle:"Shares in online market research specialist Research Now have slumped 38 per cent after the company issued a profit warning, detailing breakdowns in accounting and financial controls, just three days before its interim results." "The company had already warned of a £0.5m hit to pretax profit after the unforeseen closure of its offices following the murder of one of its employees in January. It now says it's unearthed £0.6m of previously unrecorded costs that will hit profit still further." "In areas like the US and Asia, where the company has yet to build up its own panels, it bought in research - but failed to account for the costs of doing so properly. Staff turnover is blamed, and it hardly helps that the company is currently without a finance director. An internal review has been launched." "House broker Canaccord Adams is predicting a 10 per cent fall in gross margins this year, and although it agrees with the company line that this is a blip, it is cutting its current 19.92p earnings forecast by up to 30 per cent." "All this leaves Research Now rated at around 15 times revised earnings forecasts - a significant discount to rivals such as YouGov, which trades on 30 times earnings. Research Now remains ahead of our original buy recommendation (185p 3 February 2006) but the uncertainty is likely to hold the shares back in the short term. Fairly priced at 257.5p." Generally, when IC says a stock is "fairly priced" it means it is likely to fall. |
Posted at 18/2/2007 13:24 by dosullivan The Sunday Telegraph Online market research firm Research Now gathers data from consumers in 20 countries and its clients include many of the UK's top 10 market research companies. Its acquisition of Canadian company Samplenet also adds £6.7m in sales. Research Now's shares have risen to 517.5p but the company still looks undervalued against peers like YouGov and ToLuna. Investors should buy |
Posted at 29/8/2006 15:13 by chiva20 Can anyone explain why it's dropped so much? Must be more than low investor profile surely? |
Posted at 28/8/2006 11:40 by wjccghcc Did the same before the last results which beat expectations. I think RNOW is one of those companies that tend to drift between newsflow because of their low investor profile. Does allow good opportunities to buy since they're much cheaper than YOU and also less risky IMHO given YOU's exposure to the Middle East. |
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