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Share Name	Share Symbol	Market	Type	Share ISIN	Share Description
Taptica	LSE:TAP	London	Ordinary Share	IL0011320343	ORD NIS0.01 (DI)

	Price Change	% Change	Share Price	Shares Traded	Last Trade
	+0.50p	+0.18%	272.50p	0	07:31:18
Bid Price		Offer Price	High Price	Low Price	Open Price
265.00p		280.00p	-	-	-

Industry Sector	Turnover (m)	Profit (m)	EPS - Basic	PE Ratio	Market Cap (m)
Media	156.2	12.8	16.7	17.0	184.19

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Date	Time	Source	Headline
23/4/2018	18:10	ALNC	DIRECTOR DEALINGS: Taptica International Chairman Buys Shares
23/4/2018	14:51	UKREG	Taptica International Ltd Director Share Purchase
20/4/2018	07:00	UKREG	Taptica International Ltd Dividend Declaration
04/4/2018	11:32	ALNC	DIRECTOR DEALINGS: Taptica CEO Purchases 47,500 Shares
04/4/2018	07:00	UKREG	Taptica International Ltd Director Share Purchase
03/4/2018	13:15	ALNC	DIRECTOR DEALINGS: Taptica Chief Financial Officer Carmi Buys Shares
03/4/2018	10:04	UKREG	Taptica International Ltd Director Share Purchase
27/3/2018	16:14	ALNC	DIRECTOR DEALINGS: Taptica International Chairman, CEO Up Holdings
27/3/2018	08:25	UKREG	Taptica International Ltd Block listing Interim Review
27/3/2018	07:01	UKREG	Taptica International Ltd Director/PDMR Shareholding

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23/4/2018 09:20	Taptica Daily Update: Taptica is listed in the Media sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker TAP. The last closing price for Taptica was 272p. Taptica has a 4 week average price of 267.50p and a 12 week average price of 267.50p. The 1 year high share price is 515p while the 1 year low share price is currently 267.50p. There are currently 67,591,463 shares in issue and the average daily traded volume is 301,028 shares. The market capitalisation of Taptica is £183,848,779.36. Read Full Thread Reply
09/4/2018 12:17	compnews1: thanks for sharing the Times. I can't figure out why their share price has been down so much when their March 2018 final result look good, Stockpedia mentioned a few months ago that their ROCE & ROE are near 40% and Simply Wall based mainly on cash flow and indicates that TAP share price could be worth £6.48, directors are buying. Any view would be appreciated. Thanks Read Full Thread Follow Reply
05/4/2018 10:19	simso: The latest FinnCap forecast for 2019 are expecting EBITDA of $42m, with $28m (£20m) of that being Free Cashflow after deducting Tax, Working Cap movements and Capex. Closing Cash at end 2019 is forecast at $80m ( £57m). At the current share price and Market Cap of £210m, that would mean 27% of the Market Cap is Cash, and with an EV of £153m. The £20m Free Cashflow generated on an EV of £153m equates to a FCF Yield of 13%...an incredible number in this world of low interest rates. Certainly in a different league to any other shares I own! The potential for an even better number comes from my belief that the forecasts are actually prudent and could be beaten. Also, one would expect an acquisition(s)which would hopefully improve EBITDA, while obviously reducing the forecast Cash Balance. Clearly the GDPR and Facebook issues create uncertainty. I am not sure anybody really knows what impact they will have. I do not personally think the big data TAP deals with constitute "personal information" in the context of what GDPR and FB Privacy issues are concerned with. I also note that GDPR is a European Directive and EU will probably account for <10% of TAP's Sales when a Full Year of Tremor is in 2018 numbers. I am not even a gifted amateur in trying to assess the impacts (if any) of GDPR and FB on TAP, but what I do believe is that at this share price "The Market" is currently assuming a big unfavourable effect, whereas the Company itself sees it as Opportununity. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
27/3/2018 17:21	unwize: I think this one sentence in the full year results is weighing heavily on the share price: "As a result, we are confident of delivering solid year-on-year growth for 2018 in line with market expectations." Stockopedia shows concensus forecast EPS of 42c for 2018. I checked with the house broker today and they confirmed concensus forecast for 2018 was 41.7c. Broker forecasts are for adjusted EPS. TAP have just reported adjusted EPS of 40.88c, fully diluted EPS was 39.29c. Earnings growth per share of circa 5% isn't very exciting, particularly when compared to growth rates of last 2 years. I suspect 2 things are affecting earnings in 2018, much higher R&D spend (Tremor) and an increase in the share count. I still think TAP is cheap but when markets are tough it takes a lot more than 5% growth to get the share price moving back up significantly. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
26/3/2018 13:55	nocrap: Been searching share pro phets, as he usully sniffs out a rat, not one bad post ever about tap, heres the only post from july 2017 on it and not written by him. Hello Share Scudders. What does Taptica International (TAP) actually do? It states it does ‘data-focused marketing solutions’. I so hate that word ‘solutionsR17; and I’m not sure I know what the above means, but what the company seems to do is use artificial intelligence and ‘learning̵7; machines and appliances to pep up advertising and make it more personal. I think we’re talking ads on mobile phones here. I’ve studied its website for more information. And though there is loads of info on there, I’m afraid the language used is not compatible with my techno-light vocabulary. Never mind, advertising’s new cutting edge technology using apps is becoming really widespread. Even if it drives some of us up the wall. Taptica has some impressive partners, many of which are household names. Think Twitter, Disney, Amazon and Facebook. Together with about 450 advertising outfits at home and abroad. The current dividend yield isn’t much at 2%, but the dividend should grow as the company digs its toes ever more into the exploding targeted advertising market. The company is headquartered in Israel with offices in San Francisco and New York. It joined AIM three years ago and at 365p the shares are trading near year highs, but given the impressive way the digital advertising market is growing, the share price could keep on rising. In 2016, revenues increased by 66% to $125.9 million. Gross profit more than doubled to $46 million (2015: $21.1 million), with improvement in gross margin to 36.5% (2015: 17.8%). And what of future prospects? I suppose it all depends on whether you have faith in advertising technology or not. Personally I think personalised advertising, as much as I rather hate it, will become much more common in the future. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
25/3/2018 00:53	nocrap: whats more important, revenue, earnings or cash flow? IMO ultimately i believe its earnings and ROCE. heres an answer i found. The objective of an investor is to get his money back with a return greater than the prevailing interest rate. The only way for this to happen is if his investment makes a profit. Thus the most important measurement is earnings. The price earnings (p/e) ratio is the measure that indicates how quicly an investor will get his money back. The lower the p/e the faster the return will happen. If a company can generate more revenue with no increase in expense then earnings increase and for a given share price the p/e falls. But revenues increases only in a growing economy. In a no-growth economy the only way for earnings to increase is to reduce expenses. Bottom line is that an investor must look at the p/e, consider future sales, and current debt before making an investment. I suggest looking at these fundamental and not the technical aspects of a stock I think that as i said before you need the twin engine effect, a small cap stock and a low p/e, as new investors will bid the share price up, raising the share price increasing the p/e ratio. thats why there is little margin of safety buying stocks with p/e of say 40, 50 etc and above imo. the earnings growth, (PEG ratio) have to justify the p/e or eventually they say the share price will revert to the mean. however looking at amazon it has rarely reverted to the mean as investors know its profits are low but its revenue is huge, as the stock keeps reinvesting its earnings for growth.as they believe it will keep growing. At end of the day its what an investor thinks the company will be producing in dividends in the future, as long as they are worth more than interest in bonds or bank, they will buy, All of this adds up , and add mentality to this , you get short term noise, technical traders, a voting machine add in fundamentals you get the real answer and thats why its called a weighing machine. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
12/3/2018 19:00	nocrap: The End Of (Artificial) Stability By David Scott \| Monday 12 March, 2018. There are many ways of assessing the value of the stock market. The Shiller PE (price relative to the past decade’s worth of real, average earnings) and Tobin’s Q (the value of companies’ outstanding stock and debt relative to their replacement cost) are possibly the two best. That doesn’t mean those metrics are accurate crash indicators, or that one can use them profitably as trading signals. Expensive stocks can stay expensive or get more expensive, and cheap stocks can stay cheap or get cheaper for inconveniently and expensively long periods of time. But those metrics do have a good record of forecasting future long-term (one decade or more) returns. And that’s important for financial planning and wealth management. Difficult though it is sometimes, everyone must use an estimated return into a formula for retirement savings. Stocks will almost certainly return less than their long-term 10% annualized average for the next decade or two given a starting Shiller PE over 30. The long-term average of the metric, after all, is under 17. Another way of looking at how expensive the market has gotten recently is to look at sales of the S&P 500 constituents and relate it to share price. Companies are always manipulating items on income statements to arrive at an earnings number. Recently, record numbers of companies have supported net income numbers with non-GAAP metrics. That can be legitimate sometimes, but on the whole companies use it to manipulate profits and share prices up. For example, depreciation on real estate is rarely commensurate with reality. But it can also be nefarious, as Vitaliy Katsenelson recently argued in criticizing Jack Welch’s stewardship of General Electric, which Katsenelson characterized as being more interested in beating quarterly earnings estimates rather than in creating long-term wealth. And that’s why sales metrics can be useful. They are less easily manipulated. From the beginning of 2009 through the end of 2016, companies in the S&P 500 index grew profits per share by nearly 4% annualized, a perfectly respectable number for a mature economy. But price per share grew by a whopping 14.5% over that time. Over that 8-year period, sales grew less than 50% cumulatively, while share prices tripled. Anyone invested in stocks should worry how do share prices get so divorced from underlying corporate sales? One likely answer is low interest rates. But there must be other reasons because we’ve had low interest rates and low stock prices before – namely in the 1940s. That was after the Great Depression, and stocks were still likely viewed as suspect investments. Today, by contrast, stocks are not viewed with much suspicion, despite the technology bubble peaking in 2000 and the housing bubble in 2008. Investors still believe in stocks as an asset class. And yet, the decline in rates over the past four decades has been breath-taking, as has Federal Reserve intervention. James Montier of Boston asset manager, Grantham, Mayo, van Otterloo (GMO), has studied stock price movements over the past few decades and found that a significant percentage of upward price movements have occurred on or before Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) days. Montier estimated that 25% of the market’s return since 1984 has resulted from movements around FOMC days. Moreover, the market has moved higher regardless of what the FOMC decision was. If this is a stock market bubble – and the data shows unusually high prices relative to sales and earnings – it is a strange one. One doesn’t hear the anecdotal evidence of excitement – i.e., cab driver’s talking about their latest stock purchases, etc.…. This is perhaps a kind of dour bubble, where asset ownership at any price seems prudent in an economy that is becoming less and less hospitable to ordinary workers. Or, as Montier wrote in a more recent paper, this may be a “cynical”; bubble where investors know that shares are overpriced but think they can be the first ones out when the inevitable decline begins. Most valuation parameters are either the richest ever or among the highest in history. In the past, levels like these were followed by downturns. Thus, a decision to invest today must rely on the belief that ‘it’s different this time.’ I’m convinced the easy money has been made.” Most of corrections and crashes follow initial warning signals. Very often, market tops are followed by a few setbacks, followed by new highs, until the ultimate correction occurs. The 2000 dot-com collapse is a perfect example. The initial correction started on March 11, 2000, but the index didn’t bottom until October 2002 after losing 78% of its pre-crash value. Similarly, the Financial Crisis of 2008 and the collapse of Lehman Brothers were preceded by the 90% share price drop and subsequent bankruptcy of New Century Financial in March and April of 2007.The market peaked on October 9, 2007—a full six months after the initial shock. Then another five months later, Bear Stearns crumbled, followed by IndyMac in July 2008. The Question You Should Ask Yourself The question investors should ask themselves is: Which part of the cycle are we in today? Are we closer to a top or to a bottom? If we are closer to a top and we start seeing early signs of a correction, it’s important to adopt a defensive investment strategy before a more serious crash occurs. The market may still reach new highs, but the risks are mounting. Personally, I’d rather sacrifice a bit of performance to protect the downside. The reasons why we want downturn insurance in place now are: Stocks still have rich valuations today, especially the FAANGs. P/Es are high compared to historical averages. Over the last several years, corporations have used leverage for financial engineering rather than boosting productivity. US corporate debt levels are at an all-time high (above $6 trillion or about 31% of GDP). This excess leverage is fine when interest rates are low, but it can be deadly in a recession. In addition, stock repurchases don’t have the same impact on profits than capital investments. Interest rates are expected to increase because of the Fed’s tightening policies. Treasury issuances will likely increase over the next few years. Unfortunately, this may coincide with lower demand for US debt from both international and domestic buyers. Higher interest rates will put pressure on demand for consumer goods and real estate. These are two critical drivers of economic activity in the US. Many asset categories are currently in bubble territory and prone to downward adjustments: growth stocks, bonds, real estate in many markets, arts, collectibles, and luxury goods, and cryptocurrencies. Geopolitical risks are not insignificant (North Korea, Iran). Political gridlock in the US could lead to paralysis after the mid-term elections. Heightened risks of protectionism and trade wars. There are some positive indicators that could prolong the current expansion—such as high employment rates and robust economic activity in all the developed economies. The Trump administration’;s tax reform could also boost the economy, although most of the benefits are likely to be delayed. As far as I am concerned the risks when valuations are so full are simply not worth taking. A branch of journalism that might be called, “don’t worry, be happy, because this time is different” tends to pop up at the peak of cycles when imbalances that caused past crashes start to reemerge. Eager to keep the gravy train going, business publications send reporters out to interview industry experts (who are making fortunes from the ongoing expansion) on why this batch of imbalances is no problem at all. And sure, enough they find all kinds of plausible-sounding rationalizations. In the 1990s dot-com bubble, for instance, stratospheric P/E ratios didn’t matter because for New Age tech companies earnings were “optional.R21; In the 2000s housing bubble record mortgage debt didn’t matter because home prices would always rise faster than the associated borrowing, keeping homeowners above water and banks ever-solvent. Subsequent events proved this to be nothing more than insiders trying to keep the deals flowing. Now, with pretty much every major indicator signalling a peak for the latest cycle, “don’t worry, be happy” is once again a popular journalistic beat. As the world watches to see if Trump will follow through with his threat to put on steel and aluminium import tariffs, Europe continues to quietly ratchet up its own trade war with China. On Tuesday, as China was trying to define its future trade relations with the US, it was delivered a broadside from the European Commission after Brussels announced it had renewed tariffs on Chinese steel imports, some as high as 71.9%, saying producers in France, Spain and Sweden face a continued risk of imports from China at unfairly low prices. Ironically, that's the same thing that Trump is saying. The original measures, imposed last April, saw Europe setting anti-dumping duties on imports of hot-rolled flat steel products from China at a higher rate than the preliminary tariffs already in place. The European Commission explained it had set final duties of between 18.1% and 35.9% for five years for producers including Bengang Steel Plates, Handan Iron & Steel and Hesteel. This compared with lower provisional rates in place of 13.2 to 22.6%, following a complaint by EU producers ArcelorMittal, Tata Steel and ThyssenKrupp. Last week Bloomberg reported that the European Commission reimposed for another five years the duties, which punish Chinese exporters including Huadi Steel for allegedly dumping pipes and tubes in Europe; the levies range from 48.3% to 71.9%, depending on the Chinese exporter. “The repeal of the measures would in all likelihood result in a significant increase of Chinese dumped imports at prices undercutting the union industry prices," the commission - the 28-nation EU’s executive arm in Brussels - said in the Official Journal; the five-year renewal will take effect on Wednesday. And even though China’s share of the EU market for stainless steel seamless pipes and tubes has been negligible, and hovering at around 2% since 2013, Brussels had no problem with pursuing what it thought was fair remedies. The financial crisis, global recession and a long, slow recovery have dented public faith in central banks and it’s going to be a hard slog to win it back, according to the Bank of England’s chief economist. In a speech on Tuesday, Andy Haldane said credibility and trust are the “secret sauce of central banking” and there is no quick fix to regain them. That’s partly because of resentment among people about slow wage growth, faster inflation and the perception that whatever spoils the economy offers haven’t been shared equally. Over the past several years the largest buyer of U.S. treasury debt was the Federal Reserve through fiat money creation. That is printed money to buy the date of the government. Now, the Fed has tapered quantitative easing and is dumping their balance sheet at a rate faster than anyone expected. The Fed is pulling the plug on its artificial support of the economy. The next largest buyers are major foreign central banks in countries like China, Japan and to some extent the supranational EU. If the debt buyers of last resort are now the very same countries Trump is seeking to enact tariffs over, this is unlikely to end well. They will dump U.S. treasury bonds pushing up yields and interest rates and perhaps even dump the dollar the world reserve currency. The Fed under Jerome Powell has made it crystal clear that they will be raising interest rates and cutting the Fed balance sheet, perhaps more than their dot plots had indicated in the past. Without low rates and a steadily rising balance sheet we have already seen the results. Stocks have gone crazy compared to the past few years, dumping nearly 10% one week, spiking about half that the next week. It is no coincidence that the first two times the Fed reduced its balance sheet the Dow plunged over 1,000 points. The latest dump of $23 billion at the end of February resulted in a drop of around 1,500 points. It is too early in this process to know what the trend will be, but it seems to me that stocks are being steam valve down every month. With a marked decline just after a balance sheet dump, followed by a less impressive dead cat bounce the week after. One thing is certain, the supposedly endless bull market induced by the Fed years ago is now over. Investors are yet to wake up to this new reality and for most they will do so, too late and significantly worse off. Remember in 2006, everyone (please exclude me from this) from Ben Bernanke to Goldman Sachs thought 2008 was going to be a great year and we all know how that turned out! posted today on sahre prophets, what do i take from this, simply if interest rates got higher and higher, then their is no incentive to own stocks, the risk is too much and safer gains by bank deposit accounts, but needs to be around 10% plus, and buffett also said that. plus maybe the time is to own low, p/e stocks like tap, and get away from the over priced, world famous US tech stocks. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
02/2/2018 09:01	nocrap: I leave the more puzzling questions about where should a company target new sales, its competitors, etc, thats the job for the ceo.!!! and their big wages. i look for industries that are growing, stock with a low p/e, a low peg ratio, a good ROE, a growing share price, low volatile stocks, little debt.increasing earnings per share, undiscovered stocks heres a post from stockopedia last summer. However, whereas much of XLMedia’s profit comes from the gaming sector, Taptica works with some of the biggest consumer brands in the world. Here’s a snapshot of a few of the companies featured on its website: 5937c95b415e2T2.png Source: www.taptica.com Taptica operates in more than 15 countries with over 600 apps and brands. The company’s user database handles more than 22bn requests each day and contains 220m user profiles with more than 100 data points for each user! It seems to me that Taptica must be becoming a significant player in this sector, providing tailored marketing for big brands, mainly through targeted mobile advertising. Do the numbers stack up? Taptica’s sales have risen from $20.3m in 2011 to $125.9m in 2016, giving a compound average annual growth rate of 44%. Net profit growth has broadly matched this, rising by a CAGR of 42% over the same period (although the figures for 2011-2013 are pro forma, as Taptica only floated in London in 2014). The firm’s 2016 results were certainly impressive, as Paul Scott commented at the time. Revenue rose by 66% to $125.9m, while gross profit rose by 118% to $46m, thanks to an improvement in gross margin from 27.8% to 36.5%. Taptica ended last year with net cash of $21.5m, despite spending a total of $16.5m on acquisitions, share buybacks and dividends. This is clearly a cash generative business and I’d expect this to continue. In my view, the group’s data-driven marketing approach is likely to become more effective and efficient at larger scale. Scope for re-rating? The market appears to remain sceptical about Taptica, probably because it’s an overseas company listed on AIM. The only time Taptica’s share price climbs is following a broker upgrade and/or a strong set of results. To highlight this I’ve placed the chart for the last year above the broker forecast trend for the same period: 5937c99579acdT3.png Despite this, the shares have enjoyed a significant re-rating over the last year. The consensus earnings forecast for 2017 has risen by 110% since June 2016, from 12.7 pence to 26.7 pence per share. Over the same period, the share price has risen by about 280%. So we can see that Taptica’s 2017 forecast P/E ratio has risen from 6.2 to 11.3 over the last year. As Taptica reports in US dollars, the precise level of re-rating may have been affected by the depreciation of the pound. But the trend is unmistakeable. Affordable growth? With a StockRank of 96 and a StockRank Style of Super Stock, the omens are good. However, Taptica’s strong growth last year means that the ValueRank, which uses trailing figures, is a relatively weak 53. That’s not necessarily a problem, as the group’s trailing valuation figures are still relatively appealing: 5937c9aa0ff43T4.png The highlights for me are Taptica’s trailing price/free cash flow ratio of 12.5 and its earnings yield (EBIT/EV) of 9.2%. These two figures alone suggest decent value to me. After all, inverting the P/FCF ratio gives a free cash flow yield of 8%. That represents money which can safely be returned to shareholders or used to invest in growth. Taptica’s high price/book ratio doesn’t concern me, as this is a business built on people and intellectual property. Its value lies in the earning power of the complete package. Overall, I’ve no concerns about Taptica’s value scores, given its current growth rate. Top quality Taptica’s QualityRank of 99 suggest a near-perfect set of figures. The reality certainly looks promising: 5937c9b743460T5.png I think it’s worth noting that the six-year average return on capital employed (ROCE) is probably being skewed by the presence of pre-IPO figures in the Stockopedia data: 5937c9c253b23T6.png Did Taptica really generate a ROCE of 1,215% in 2013? It seems unlikely. However, the group’s post-IPO average ROCE of 20.9% is far more credible and still very high. All the other figures in the QualityRank calculation seem fine to me. One particular attraction is the Piotroski F-Score of 9/9, which confirms the wholesale improvement in the company’s performance seen in 2016: 5937c9cc7bdd2T8.png The F-Score is a great way to get a snapshot of a company’s financial health and recent performance, in my opinion. It’s also heavily weighted in the QualityRank calculation, so high quality stocks usually have high F-Scores. Does Taptica still have momentum? Taptica’s habit of only making gains after a positive update hasn’t prevented the stock from earning a MomentumRank of 91. Price momentum factors are particularly strong, as the screenshot below shows: 5937c9daf3381T9.png Looking ahead, earnings per share are expected to rise by 30% to $0.34 this year, putting the stock on a fairly undemanding forecast P/E of 11.3. The dividend payout is expected to rise by 65% to 7.1 cents or 5.5p. This should give a more attractive 1.8% yield, while still maintaining dividend cover of about 4.8x. Although stingy, this payout ratio should mean that Taptica will still have the firepower needed to make acquisitions or buyback shares without using debt. My verdict: I can’t see any obstacles to further growth for Taptica. The valuation looks reasonable and the firm’s financial performance seems excellent. I’m going to add Taptica to the SIF portfolio this week. I’ll also buy for my own portfolio after this article has been published. 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25/1/2018 00:08	runthejoules: SHARES mag recommends: The deployment of a $50m acquisition war chest at mobile advertising platform Taptica (TAP:AIM) could prompt near 30% upgrades to earnings forecasts if it manages to make good acquisitions, according to investment bank Berenberg. This would provide another leg to the growth story and help drive further momentum in a share price which is already up more than 450% in the last 18 months. WHAT DOES THE COMPANY DO? Taptica is a ‘user acquisition platform’ which focuses on mobile and social media. In plain English this means it helps clients to run more effective advertising campaigns through a platform which helps target ads appropriately. The ultimate aim is to help convert mobile website, social media and app user traffic into paying customers. The company operates a performance-based marketing model and therefore gets a slice of the user revenue it helps drive for its customers. Its platform is used by top global brands including Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Starbucks, Uber and Samsung. Historically Shares was sceptical on the story after a big crash for the ad-tech space in 2015 driven by fears over fraudulent online ads and ad-blocking technology. The company’s track record in the interim has led us to change our minds and although we have missed out on some big gains we still see merit in buying at the current price. We are particularly reassured by the fact earnings are increasingly backed by cash. In the first half of 2017 adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation was up more than 40% year-on-year at $13.1m while cash flow more than trebled to $13.7m. STRENGTHENED BALANCE SHEET Taptica recently raised $30m to bolster its balance sheet (15 Jan) and Berenberg analysts comment: ‘Our scenario analysis indicates that if Taptica deploys its balance sheet firepower over the coming year, there could be 20% to 29% upside to our 2018-20 earnings per share estimates.’ A 2018 price-to-earnings ratio of less than 15 times based on Berenberg’s existing forecasts does not look too demanding. Deals are likely to be used to accelerate expansion in key markets including Europe and Asia Pacific as well as to plug technological gaps. There are risks attached to the story, nonetheless. A focus on M&A brings integration risk although we note its recent track record of finding quality businesses is good, as illustrated by the fact its Tremor Video DSP acquisition from August 2017 is proving to be a particularly good deal. Investors should also be wary of any future regulatory changes to the way online ads are bought or sold. Taptica pays a small dividend, yielding approximately 1%. You’re really buying the shares for capital growth. (TS) Read Full Thread Follow Reply
30/9/2017 13:14	mount teide: Some thoughts and observations on Old Mutual's short position, in the week that has seen the share price rocket by 24% since Old Mutual reported it had increased to 0.96%: It first reached a reportable size(0.5%) on/close to the 11th Sept @0.58% and increased to 0.96% via notifications over the next 11 days. Assuming: The initial position was probably built up in the 430p to 370p share price range - lets assume an average of 400p for the first 0.58% The next 0.14% increase was @ circa 385p And the final 0.24% increase @ circa 350p This would give an overall average of circa 385p for a total position of circa 590,000 shares. Now we know on results day the share price rallied quickly and then largely stayed at the 380p area where a high transaction volume occurred - circa 1.5m; and that some very large individual transactions totalling nearly 600,000 shares transacted at circa 380p were quietly slipped into the reporting system some 2 days later after hours(how the Market Regulators/ Current Rules can let MM's get away with this chicanery is a disgrace for any market which claims to be regulated and providing all investors with a level playing field). This would have enabled Old Mutual to have exited much of the 0.38% of combined positions taken out at an average of circa 362p and a decent chunk of the position taken out at 400p, at/close to break even. Leaving around 0.35% taken out at an average of 400p to be bought back - some could have been bought back over the next few days at around 380p with the remainder at prices up to 407p without Old Mutual sustaining a loss of any kind on its total position. That nearly 140k were bought via two transactions late Friday afternoon at the full and highest offer price of the day, suggests someone may have agreed with a MM/s to buy at this volume and price beforehand, enabling the MM's to walk the price up to this level on low volume (the share price reached 407p offer on Friday on just circa 90k of volume - but finished the day with 392k of reported volume). So post the results, its suggests we may have had the shorters closing out to thank for some of the rapid recovery in share-price from 330p to 405p last week. If this is the case, why has there been no change in Old Mutual's short position notified to the market? (bearing in mind that at least circa 400,000 of the total stock on loan according to Euroclear's latest report were held by those with positions below the notifiable threshold of 0.5%) Observation of shorts closing out in other companies in recent years suggest many II's and hedge funds shamelessly use every trick in the book and some that aren't, to leave notification of any reduction in an existing short position 'investment' that is starting to go against them until they are dragged kicking and screaming to report it. Scandalously, there are many examples of II's and hedge funds accepting a small fine and slap on the wrist as a more than acceptable penalty for failing to comply chapter and verse with the rules for reporting notifiable positions - since once they start reporting the closing out of a position going strongly against them(fast rising price) it risks a massive squeeze by momentum trading sharks always on the lookout for any scent of blood in the water to start a feeding frenzy. AIMHO/DYOR Read Full Thread Follow Reply
31/8/2016 21:59	dibbs: Interesting write up on TAP below, taken from III. Investec forecasting 21.1 cents for this year. I like the "Our 2017 forecasts are unchanged though now look conservative," admits Liechti" Plenty of room for upgrades if momentum continues to build further. Very happy to be holding here with very good scope for the share price to appreciate further over the coming months. It's a big day for Taptica (TAP). Floated on AIM in 2014, the Israeli firm is back above its IPO price for the first time in 18 months. Demand is driven by blockbuster first half results and a special dividend, with bosses bullish on prospects for the full-year. No wonder the shares surged by 29% Wednesday. Taptica's clever software allows advertisers like Amazon (AMZN), Disney (DIS), Facebook (FB) and Twitter (TWTR) reach the right market via mobile devices. This work helped revenue increase by 53% to $51.8 million (£39.6 million) in the six months ended 30 June. That swelled adjusted cash profit to $9.2 million from $2.8 million a year ago, and pre-tax profit sixfold to $6.85 million, giving bosses confidence to pay a one-off dividend of 5.79 cents, or 4.4p a share. We'd been told back in July that business had been better than expected, largely due to surprisingly high margins on campaigns run for clients. Gross margin rose from 26.4% to 34.4% in the six months, and chief executive Hagai Tal tells Interactive Investor he's "comfortable" to say Taptica will achieve "at least what we did in the first six months". Steve Liechti, an analyst at Investec Securities, keeps sales estimates for this year unchanged at $111 million, up from $75.8 million in 2015. But he thinks Taptica will more than double cash profit to $18.4 million, up from his previous estimate of $17.7 million, and grow underlying earnings per share from 8 cents to 21.1 cents. He'd pencilled in 20.2 cents before. "Our 2017 forecasts are unchanged though now look conservative," admits Liechti. Taptica's first half certainly vindicates a decision to target mobile advertising rather than the web, a move aided by the $17 million acquisition of AreaOne in September last year. Mobile business now accounts for 79% of revenues versus 51% in the first half of 2015. It's been a long slog, however, and the share price slumped by two-thirds last summer after the firm, then known as Marimedia, warned its decision to shift emphasis from the display business would damage revenue. "As we went into mobile, we were strong, but focusing on Tier One clients took time," Hagai Tal explained to Interactive Investor. "We've now proved ourselves and it’s easier to attract new advertisers." That includes giant US retailers, which are increasingly focused on mobile ads. "The whole market is growing, and this is just beginning," reckons Hagai Tal. "They haven’t moved all their budget yet, but understand they need to engage with potential customers on mobile. Once they see the light, they start to shift their business." Marimedia floated in May 2014, raising £29.8 million via a placing at 153p. Two months later it bought the Taptica business whose name it took the following year. After hitting a low of 57p last summer, the share price has soared from just 63p in June to a high of 165p Wednesday, a gain of 162%. At that level, the shares trade on a forward price/earnings (PE) ratio of 10.2 times, dropping to single digits based on 2017 estimates. That doesn’t sound expensive, and it's not, but the market has been reluctant to rate Taptica more highly given its track record, preferring instead to see how the transition to mobile goes. It's gone well so far, and investors are clearly happy to pay much more for the shares. As that track record improves, so too should the rating. Investec has raised its price target to 160p based on today's results, but clearly there is room for further upside if the second half goes as well as Taptica predicts. As Investec says, their forecasts could be conservative. This is an exciting business, but at these elevated levels is a 'buy on the dips' for brave investors only. Read Full Thread Follow Reply

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