Stilo Share Discussion Threads

[dibs61] 04/2/2016 21:31

mud - worth bearing in mind that BD are holding these shares on behalf of clients and it may well be that not all their clients wish to dispose of their STL holdings. If this was the case then BD may continue to hold some stock. I do hope they've finished either way now and this isn't another false dawn. The shares could make 10p if my full year projections are correct for the results.

[mudbath] 04/2/2016 17:44

The emergence of renewed demand for Stilo International shares and the accompanying rise in the share price has triggered a series of bullish technical indicators
including:-

03 Feb 2016 Slow Stochastic Short-Term Bullish
03 Feb 2016 Triple Moving Average Crossover (4-day 9-day 18-day)
02 Feb 2016 Momentum Short-Term Bullish
02 Feb 2016 Price Crosses Moving Average (50-day) Intermediate-Term bullish
02 Feb 2016 Commodity Channel Index Short-Term Bullish
02 Feb 2016 Williams %R Short-Term Bullish
02 Feb 2016 Price Crosses Moving Average (21-day) Short-Term Bullish
02 Feb 2016 Short-term KST Short-Term Bullish

Maybe this is why Brewin Dolphin seem to be refraining from dumping yet more of their remaining 12.3343% holding.If earlier large published sales could be attributed to BD then their current holding must be approaching just 10%.

[mudbath] 04/2/2016 16:28

Cheers Dibs61 !

If the Stilo share price could move above 6 pence,on decent volume,and either hold or improve on that level,then we shareholders might just be in line for encouraging news.
imo.

[dibs61] 04/2/2016 15:57

Bid raised again....

[stilolosses] 03/2/2016 17:19

I should jolly well hope so. Apology accepted.

[bakunin] 03/2/2016 11:57

10p might not be unrealistic, depending on how they are executing on last year's one-off sales success and the AuthorBridge release.
There is likely to be a big sell-off across the whole market sometime this year and some of this money will be seeking a stable home with a dividend and at least something in prospect.
Apologies for conjuring up an optimistic scenario.

[stilolosses] 02/2/2016 18:44

My understanding is that it is the first time that Stilo's share price has gone up more than a penny in one single trading day for some 10 to 15 years. I think the most it has been up in one single day during the last 10 to 15 years was by 0.62 pence.

What would be nice is for it to go up further before the company makes any announcement. I feel the current share price is at fair value and I would be pleasantly surprised if it went further. If it does then it should this time stay there. The test will come once the 12 month results are announced. The hope would be for the share price to at least remain within the 5 to 6.5 pence level post results and for it then to build from there.

If it does go up close to 10 pence then mudbath can call me "all the names under the sun"!!! and I will totally agree with him with those names.

[mudbath] 02/2/2016 16:00

I wouldn't say that the share price had shot up firth;merely regaining the ground lost over the past month or so.
More importantly imo we are back on the trend line which,if continued,would suggest a share price in the 10 pence region towards the end of 2016.

[woody1869] 02/2/2016 15:11

Not in big, sold a few a while back for a small profit quite happy to hold now until some good news breaks...alway the optimist

[firth] 02/2/2016 14:55

Woody I think you should have a VC for patience.
Do company's have to comment if their share price shoots up? Mudbath will know!

[woody1869] 02/2/2016 12:31

Maybe I should post more often, looking good

[mudbath] 02/2/2016 09:23

Stilo International shares are 4.17 pence to buy at the moment.
As two separate individuals recently acquired 3% ++ interests in STL, paying significantly higher prices for the privilege,then the price quoted seems rather low;potentially almost option money, imo.

[stilolosses] 01/2/2016 20:13

Just over 7 years plus since the last post by wood1869. Not bad really. I would certainly have something to say if it was 8 years.

[mudbath] 01/2/2016 18:35

Thanks for your post woody1869.

I see that your last post on the STL thread was in September 2008.
I hope that you don't leave it so long before the next one !

[woody1869] 01/2/2016 17:34

Been holding this for over 15 years now quite happy to hold for another couple
Good luck all

[stilolosses] 01/2/2016 17:18

Mudbath I completely agree when you say that this partnership is between two companies that companies that are completely on the opposite side of the scales when it comes to size: Stilo has about 16 employees and IBM about 100,000 or something like that.

This partnership presentation with this new product will certainly help inject healthy revenues in 2016 and beyond. Once those revenues are evidenced then we will have a much, much better picture of how things are developing.

In the ideal world I would love to see those revenues pile in very quickly but with Author Bridge just coming to market and getting its first taste of acceptance it is going to take time for those customers to see it, get it installed and get it up and running.

I don't mind admitting when I am wrong and I was certainly off the mark when I said that it was going to take a long time for this to come to market. Once Stilo made the announcement that it was going to conduct a "controlled release" I was certainly under the impression that this was going to take a lot more time to come to market. It would now appear that the uptake is staring to happen with IBM and Acrolinx. I do have an inkling though that at the moment there is a limited amount that can happen with Author Bridge and once it is launched and then upgraded one will be able to do a lot more with it in the next year or two.

One thing that I would question at the moment is on what scale is it being used at IBM. Is it being used by just a few hundred people or a lot more. My head tells me that it is on a very low level but that is not to say that it won't or can't be used on a larger scale but knowing the beast that IBM is this in my opinion would take time. Either way, when word gets out that IBM are endorsing it, others will follow. These others, and possibly IBM on a larger scale, being the ones who will help scale revenues in 2016 and beyond.

It all looks good but I won't say its plain sailing from here and there will be a lot more interesting questions that we will all ask but for now we can look forward to the finals and any other related news. If I had a contract with IBM I would personally be standing on every street corner and shouting to the world about it and I wish Stilo would do the same but something seems to be holding them back.

[mudbath] 01/2/2016 10:07

Just to recap then,come April in Virginia,IBM's Mike Iantosca,who leads multiple software development and test teams across far-flung geographies that design, develop, test, and support advanced publishing technologies including structured based authoring and content management systems,will address a select audience on the subject of Intelligent Content Authoring.

Sharing the platform will be Stilo's V.P. Development and Professional Services, Patrick Baker,who heads all new product development at Stilo and is actively engaged in the successful deployment of content processing solutions for publishing clients.

For me there is much nuance and piquancy to be taken from the total mismatch in corporate size between the two companies.I believe that STL,working alongside IBM might well be close to delivering the software that will render making intelligent content component strategies for the enterprise no longer such an elusive proposition.

Should this be the case then STL shareholders will not need worry about future revenue streams.imo.

[clocktower] 01/2/2016 08:59

All good reading but a bit unfair when telling SL to keep on topic as all analogies are fair comment and give a different perspective. The share price has held up well in these troubled markets.

[stilolosses] 31/1/2016 23:27

On a serious note, clearly this co-hosting with IBM is a super achievement for such a miniscule company like Stilo that only has 16 employees.

I reiterate that this co-hosting agreement will categorically help increase Stilo's revenues during 2016 and beyond on a relatively good scale but not on any significant level.

I have absolutely no problem in being proven wrong if Stilo was to achieve massive revenue scalability in 2016 and beyond but knowing Stilo and its historic achievements, I know this very unlikely. If they did then it would be an incredible achievement but my head tells me that this is unlikely to happen.

[stilolosses] 31/1/2016 22:45

Thanks mud. I enjoyed that one. Let's just hope the same can be said about Stilo. I hope we can all go the beach sooner rather than later.

[mudbath] 31/1/2016 22:29

SL,as requested here is the one about the boy who shouted wolf.

Your "boy" sees a man driving around with a pickup truck full of wolf pups. He shouts to the guy, "You can't drive around with wolf pups in your car, please take them to the zoo immediately." The guy says "OK"... and drives away. The next day, the boy sees the guy again driving around with the truck still full of wolf pups, but this time they're all wearing sun glasses. He shouts to the guy and demands... "I thought I told you to take these wolf pups to the zoo yesterday?" The guy replies... "I did . . . today I'm taking them to the beach!"

[stilolosses] 31/1/2016 21:49

Mud please send me the one about the boy who shouted wolf! You forgot that one.

[mudbath] 31/1/2016 21:31

Please keep on topic SL .

Should you wish to focus on DFS then this is the thread for you:-

[mudbath] 31/1/2016 10:31

stu31-It is interesting that IBM have been exploring the potential for "intelligent content" for thirty years,never mind the 15 to 20 year period that SL keeps rabbiting on about!

The forthcoming Stilo presentation with IBM at the Content Management Strategies/DITA North America Conference in Reston, Virginia on April 4-6 2016 holds particular significance for me.

For IBM to share a high profile platform with Stilo in order to examine IBM's proposition that,
"even so-called lightweight and tag-less authoring tools leave gaps for diverse content creators and contributors, making intelligent content component strategies for the enterprise an elusive proposition",
encapsulates the full thrust of Stilo's software development and explains the close relationship between the two companies of such disparate size.

This is a link to the presentation:-


"MEET THE PRESENTERS

Mike Iantosca

A member of the IBM corporate leadership team for Information Development and Digital Services, Mike Iantosca manages an industry-leading portfolio of authoring and content management tools and systems used to create, manage, and publish more than 200 million pages of client-facing content in dozens of national languages for thousands of IBM products. With more than 30 years of structured content authoring and management design and development experience, Mike has the overall responsibility for the planning, design, development, and delivery of solutions that support a wide range of content creators, including thousands of professional product Information Developers, technical editors, Information Architects, globalization professionals, contributors, OEMs and IBM Business Partners.

Mike leads multiple software development and test teams across far-flung geographies that design, develop, test, and support advanced publishing technologies including structured based authoring and content management systems. Mike also provides product and project management leadership across all phases of product development including concept, development, test, deployment, maintenance and operations managing people, process, requirements, change management, budgets, schedules, suppliers, and contracts.

Patrick Baker

As VP, Development and Professional Services, Patrick Baker heads all new product development at Stilo and is actively engaged in the successful deployment of content processing solutions for publishing clients. Major ongoing product development efforts include OmniMark, the leading high-performance content processing platform, and Migrate, the world’s first cloud XML content conversion service. Patrick has been associated with best practices for complex content processing for over a decade and has successfully delivered custom solutions on behalf of organizations in the automotive, airline, defence, and commercial publishing sectors.
With a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and a M.Sc. in Computer Science from McGill University, Patrick leads an expert team of highly talented content processing specialists."

Over the nine years that I have been taking a close interest in Stilo,their "Holy Grail" has always been the software that could aid the creation of "Intelligent Content".

Possibly Stilo could now be in touching distance of that objective,although tempered somewhat by IBM's pronouncement that it remains an elusive proposition.

Notwithstanding this caveat,STL shares,on offer at 4.15 pence,seemingly have the potential to move higher.