Redcentric: Bedding in the acquisitions (10 for 23 extract)

Redcentric is a mid-market managed services provider, gaining near-term scale through acquisitions. With >90% recurring revenue, the group has very strong visibility, delivering services across the spectrum of complexity. A return to a strategy of targeted acquisitions, funded by the group’s strong cash generation profile, has delivered momentum and scale to the top line. This will be complemented by the savings opportunity in the Sungard datacentres acquisition, which drives the bulk of the 48%

Redcentric - Interims in line; acquisitions shine

Interims to September are in line with the November trading update and expectations are unchanged. £11.7m EBITDA was delivered from £61.5m revenue, generating £-11.1m of free cash flow after a well flagged and discretionary inventory build-up, as well as the one-off effects of Sungard onboarding (which will unwind by March year-end). The July completion of the final elements of the acquisition (4D, Sungard Consulting and Sungard data centre) has contributed momentum to the top line which will be

Morning Note – 8 December 2022

Hybridan Small Cap Feast 15/11/22

Joiners: No joiners today. Leavers: Rosneft Oil Company GDR has left the Standard Segment of the Main Market. What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen?** Long Term Assets Limited (LTA), a Guernsey investment company, intends to join the Specialist Fund Segment of the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. The initial portfolio is made up of a diversified range of assets, recently valued in the region of £160m, comprising a complete selection of the Disruptive Capital’s family office private asset po

Morning Note – 15 November 2022

Redcentric - Interim trading update

In a busy period that included the July acquisitions of Sungard and 4D, RCN reports revenue & EBITDA in line with expectations, and a positive outlook with a significant increase in sales orders in 2Q23. The Sungard integration is complete, with duplicated costs and transitional arrangements ceased, and phase one of staff restructuring complete (saving £3.2m salaries). Some temporary costs, formerly adjudged exceptionals and opex, are redefined as IFRS16 charges, leaving FY23 EBITDA expectations

Morning Note – 21 July 2022

Redcentric - FY22 results: game changed

Redcentric has delivered FY22 results in line with expectations and has executed on its stated scale and capability acquisitions and integration delivery plans, setting itself up to reach £150m revenue at 25% EBITDA in FY24, alongside characteristically strong cash generation. It delivered £23.7m EBITDA (+8.3% underlying growth) from £93.3m revenue (+3.2% underlying growth), leading to FCF of £10m. Since March, management has confirmed trading in line with expectations, with the benefit of acqui

Morning Note – 12 July 2022

Redcentric - Acquisitions! A datacentre estate & AWS consulting business

Redcentric has announced the exchange of conditional contracts for the acquisition of the business & assets relating to three datacentres (DCs) and relating to colocation, cloud and network services. The vendor – Sungard Datacentre/ Sungard Availability Services – entered administration, blaming energy inflation and challenging rental costs, and the completion and final consideration payable are conditional upon Sungard customers agreeing new terms with Redcentric. If all three DCs individually

The Joy of Techs - finnCap Technology quarterly sector note

In previous quarterlies, we have focused on valuations, considering our tech indices for stocks below £1.5bn market cap and their performance as a herd. This time we focus on individual “zeitgeist” stocks: the stocks which confront a current theme – the indices over the period since the beginning of the year (finnCap Tech 40: -18%; finnCap Next 50: -17%) have shown unfortunate decline, therefore stock picking is more important now than ever. Median P/Es have declined 29x to 22x for the larger fC

Morning Note – 28 April 2022

Hybridan Small Cap Feast 27/04/22

According to Proactive Investors, Bridgepoint is said to preparing to list Burger King UK on the London Stock Exchange as early as this spring. A valuation of £600m is expected. Lift Global Ventures plc to join AQSE Growth Market. The Company's investment strategy is to operate as an enterprise company seeking acquisition or investment opportunities within the financial media and technology industries. Within these broad industries, areas of focus may include: Financial news websites and other f

Morning Note – 27 April 2022

Morning Note – 15 March 2022

ARR guidance lifted; IFRS15 revenue adjustment

FY'22 was a formative year, as Bango's compelling platform licensing revenue model achieved meaningful scale and the execution began on the transformational DoCoMo deal. Platform Licensing Exit ARR rose to $5.0m (FY'21: $1.1m), whilst a record number of new merchants landed in the year (44, inc. McAfee, HBO, Paramount and others). Valuation materially understates the synergistic potential available from the DoCoMo deal in our view, whilst also overlooking value in the rapidly growing licensing b

New Forecasts: breaking through

With FY22 in line and no changes to our existing FY23 forecasts, our focus is on the introduction of new forecasts for FY24 and FY25. We model Clareti recurring revenue growth of 17% and 18% resp. With Clareti having broken through to positive cash EBITDA for the first time in its history in FY22, we expect operating leverage to drive significant margin expansion over the next three years and beyond (Gresham guides to 40% of ARR dropping through to cash EBITDA). We model cash EBITDA margins of 1

Hybridan Small Cap Feast - 23 Mar 23

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Hybridan Small Cap Feast - 06 Mar 23

6 March 2023 @HybridanLLP Status of this Note and Disclaimer This document has been issued to you by Hybridan LLP for information purposes only and should not be construed in any circumstances as an offer to sell or solicitation of any offer to buy any security or other financial instrument, nor shall it, or the fact of its distribution, form the basis of, or be relied upon in connection with, any contract relating to such action. This document has no regard for the specific investment objective

Altitude Group (ALT LN) - New major contracts and FY23 ahead of expectations

Altitude has announced multiple new contracts in its Adjacent Markets Programmes (AMP) that are expected to have a significant impact on Group revenue. Zeus adjusted EBITDA forecasts are upgraded 11.9% in FY24 and 24.2% in FY25 to reflect this. The Group has also guided that FY23 adjusted EBITDA is expected to be above expectations (£1.70m), so we upgrade by 8.8% to £1.85m. Today’s contract wins and confident outlook statement provide further positive momentum. Altitude shares trade below our up

Morning Note – 27 March 2023

£10m upsell & extension, in upgrade territory

Cerillion has announced a £10m/10yr deal with an existing EMEA customer. This represents both an extension and expansion, as this customer is upgrading its core BSS platform to Cerillion’s latest (23.1), while also has purchased an additional module and will move onto Cerillion’s Evergreen Software Programme all incremental revenue. While investors have become familiar with the trend towards larger new customer deals, today’s announcement highlights Cerillion’s ‘existing customer opportunity’.an

Sopheon - Results: Introducing InnovationOps

FY results to December 2022 are in line with the January trading update indicating exciting prospects. The significant strategic shift to SaaS for all new customers will lead to greater visibility and quality of earnings, and forecasts are unchanged save for changes to US tax assumptions in FY24. $24.3m of ARR at FY22 (+17% vs FY21 ) represents 64% of FY23 revenue expectations; total visibility of FY23 revenue stands at $28.4m, equivalent to 75% of FY expectations (this time last year was $25.1m

Hybridan Small Cap Feast - 21 Mar 23

21 March 2023 @HybridanLLP Status of this Note and Disclaimer This document has been issued to you by Hybridan LLP for information purposes only and should not be construed in any circumstances as an offer to sell or solicitation of any offer to buy any security or other financial instrument, nor shall it, or the fact of its distribution, form the basis of, or be relied upon in connection with, any contract relating to such action. This document has no regard for the specific investment objectiv

Looking through the fog

Tribal has provided a useful NTU update, suggesting that the two parties are working towards winding the contract down, albeit negotiations are still ongoing. While this is clearly not an optimal outcome, it nevertheless reduces uncertainty surrounding the stock and so should enable investors to focus on the core business, which continues to perform strongly – delivering +10% u/l ARR growth (despite the NTU loss). With a strong and sticky core market position and an increasingly international pr

Hybridan Small Cap Feast - 24 Mar 23

24 March 2023 @HybridanLLP Status of this Note and Disclaimer This document has been issued to you by Hybridan LLP for information purposes only and should not be construed in any circumstances as an offer to sell or solicitation of any offer to buy any security or other financial instrument, nor shall it, or the fact of its distribution, form the basis of, or be relied upon in connection with, any contract relating to such action. This document has no regard for the specific investment objectiv

Hybridan Small Cap Feast - 16 Mar 23

16 March 2023 @HybridanLLP Status of this Note and Disclaimer This document has been issued to you by Hybridan LLP for information purposes only and should not be construed in any circumstances as an offer to sell or solicitation of any offer to buy any security or other financial instrument, nor shall it, or the fact of its distribution, form the basis of, or be relied upon in connection with, any contract relating to such action. This document has no regard for the specific investment objectiv

Hybridan Small Cap Feast - 20 Mar 23

20 March 2023 @HybridanLLP Status of this Note and Disclaimer This document has been issued to you by Hybridan LLP for information purposes only and should not be construed in any circumstances as an offer to sell or solicitation of any offer to buy any security or other financial instrument, nor shall it, or the fact of its distribution, form the basis of, or be relied upon in connection with, any contract relating to such action. This document has no regard for the specific investment objectiv

Hybridan Small Cap Feast - 27 Mar 23

27 March 2023 @HybridanLLP Status of this Note and Disclaimer This document has been issued to you by Hybridan LLP for information purposes only and should not be construed in any circumstances as an offer to sell or solicitation of any offer to buy any security or other financial instrument, nor shall it, or the fact of its distribution, form the basis of, or be relied upon in connection with, any contract relating to such action. This document has no regard for the specific investment objectiv

Blackbird plc - Finals

Blackbird plc has reported strong full-year results, with record revenue growth driven by its first ‘Powered by Blackbird’ (PBB) licencing deal with EVS, a €300m market-cap media group. EVS launched IPD-VIA Create in December 2022, its new web application developed in collaboration with Blackbird, which has already been deployed by a US broadcaster on a major global sporting event. This, and the continued roll-out by EVS, will translate into additional revenue for Blackbird through its revenue-s