When you are in hospital looking at expensive gear in theatre ( let's hope they sedate you before cutting anything!)...think that maybe ( only maybe) the purchase is due to the careful efforts of ATUK helping the NHS....or not?

Investors appear to have been happy to break my first rule -pay no more than 50p for AIM-stock - for it started at 2005 at 65p
Today it's about 2p with a certainty early investors will be diluted at maybe 1p, so in effect the Money-bags are buying your company for almost a hundredth of the price you paid (allowing for spread, charges etc.).

My second rule has thus been created...don't invest in AIM.

Brilliant performance on the latest news but only the start imo---this floated at 60p and I think it will get back there before year end!!

lots of buying and spread zero, rather than top slicing have decided to wait for drop and add when ready.

After the large rise of the last couple days, I have dispose of half.

the thing is sell on spikes and buy on weakness.

so now wainting for this game to come around and do not mind to wait.

don't think it will drop like other times eg 30-40p reckon it might rest around 45-50 which is why i didn't sell this time.,.

Comments on the THE DAILY MAIL

Shares of software company @UK soared 6.75p or 57pc to a 52-week peak of 18.5p. Buyers piled on hearing it has been awarded a contract to provide an e-commerce market place to an unnamed local authority and National Health Services partnership.

It was the first local authority and primary care trust to form a partnership, with a single chief executive and joint management team.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/article-1355720/MARKET-REPORT-GEOFF-FOSTER-Spreadbetter-abandons-AIM.html#ixzz1DbFsHJAL

A late post last night from somewhere else _I have just came accross ( the poster most likely missed the boat ) ...........
11 February 2010 00:22
"For anybody holding for 6 months this is already a 20 bagger based on todays price....but for anybody new to the board some background might be in order.

@UK has quite a successful online company formations business t/o 1-2million pa and producing 600-800K gross profit pa

It has been investing a lot of time and money in developing links with public services and developing cost saving databases and markets but to date despite prestigious links eg work for NAO on NHS and innovative Spend Insight collaboration and the Carbon Evaluations it is not turning this into hard cash yet.....more of the potential here below.....but the bottom line is all this R&D means it is a loss making business and cash flow negative!!

To stave off the inevitable there have been quite a few placings...the Fundamentals on iii here haven't kept up with this so it shows a smaller capitalisation than actual.
With 71 million shares in issue excluding a large no of options at 3.5p or less the company is currently capitalised at, in excess, of 16 million "


The growth in the last six months has been negative and the company is controlled by the Duncan family, Michael Pasterk and Mr Holloway and the employees who between them hold over 40% of the share capital..so a bid will only happen with their approval. All the development work has been funded by placings and to be blunt the cashflow is very tight so expect a large placing or rights issue at these prices.

The prospects are considerable....look at my earlier post... if they can crack the e-procurement cloud computing issue

But to keep this balanced...
(a) the analysts have a target of 10p ...we are 70% over this.
(b) the orders have come through much more slowly than originally predicted...today was the first
(c) the link ups with Barclaycard & Google are not strategic... in the case of the former it is offering Barclaycard as a payment means with the latter it is a cross advertising agreement....the RNS's are VERY WELL Spun WITH THIS COMPANY
(d) the maths of this business don't bring a lot to the bottom line eg a spend of 10million on procurement....remember the bulk of health and LA costs are wages, only to be saved by reducing headcount and the second element are fixed costs buildings and legal claims..... so procurement is only 10-20% of LA turnover and 15%-30% in the health service(I've worked as an accountant in both) but of the latter a lot of this is to drug companies where cost savings are hard to achieve (O/T hence the great prospects for SAR)...so of the 10million spend savings of 1-2 million might be achieved of which the e-procurer will do well to get 3-5% eg 30-100K....so 1million of turnover needs say 20 orders....the UK has a ceiling of under 1500 such LA's PCT's govt departments etc (they are being encouraged to merge) so with a 40% market penetration ie 600 trusts etc produces 9-15million T/0.....gross profit probably 40% so maximum bottom line contribution on this basis 4-6 million. At a PE of 12 this justifies a MAXIMUM market cap of 48-70 million.
Currently we have less than 1% of my projected clients...so we are still loss making BIG TIME.
(e) The big payment will be in the first two years of the contract, subsequent to this the savings are made and the payment for what are in effect re-orders will yield only 1-3%.....SO THE MARKET SIZE DECLINES and the repeat business is LESS PROFITABLE... not a good business model

BB you're really confusing me or can I just not read? do you really mean- eg 30-40p reckon it might rest around 45-50?

Just got home and read what i put dinner time.......DUH!!! wrong thread should have been on ABH thread......ignore me.....as usual...lol

bb - i'll have a pint of what you had dude!! lol

atuk is a little gem - i think more and more becoming aware now so this should also help the continual drive north

personal target here is 50p minimum to 1 - but i may have to up rate this as contract wins and more news will follow throughout 2011 imo


interesting week ahead

cielo - nowt wrong in cashing some profit - well done - only danger is if there is no dip!! gl

I top sliced a few to this am at 19.6p just wasn't sure.,.

balerb - sensible - i top sliced a few myself - if it dips before next news will be straight back to re-buy & add to my core holding - but i really would not want to be right out of atuk at anytime currently - lots going on and imo will multibag from current level before this year is out

KEEP AN EYE

SPREAD 12.75 / 13p +0.375p

is now on the move UP with a very good Level 2 and narrow spread, volume is high

   

Is the company on bid situation?

Accenture just bought the Symbian software development facility from Nokia...If Accenture intends to get the entire procurement services from Public sector i.e. Outsourced from Govt to Accenture, then it needs @Uk as core technical piece.

http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/Canada---World/Business/2011-06-22/article-2602856/Nokia-completes-outsourcing-deal-with-Accenture%2C-including-transfer-of-2%2C800-personnel/1

Nokia completes outsourcing deal with Accenture, including transfer of 2,800 personnel

Published on June 22, 2011
HELSINKI - Nokia Corp. says it has completed a deal to outsource its Symbian software development to Accenture that includes the transfer of 2,800 Nokia workers to the global management-consulting firm.

Got in at .0763 this morning...so very happy with the way the SP has behaved today...onwards and upwards! anyone else in?

Have been in for a while. Should have got out and back in again so hope it continues northward.

The Arbuthnot Research update on "new government initiative called as the New Enterprise Allowance" which was emailed this morning to everyone who have had email communication with @UK acted like a RNS....with excellent buying. So, I'm posting contents below.

It also includes the link for the Arbuthnot's initiation of coverage ("At the start of something big",
16 June 2011), http://www.arbuthnotsecurities.co.uk/Research/id/5705

DYOR
Nick






Arbuthnot Research update :

9 Aug 2011

@UK* [Strong Buy]
ATUK.L / 7.37p / 5.18m / TP: 25p

@UK announced last week that it hoped to benefit from a new government initiative called the New Enterprise Allowance. In our opinion, this could lead to potentially very significant additional revenues for the company. @UK is supporting the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to enable out-of-work people to start up their own business. The DWP will give each applicant 1,274 over 26 weeks in the form of benefits to which they would not otherwise be entitled. The applicant may also borrow up to a further 1,000 from DWP lenders to use as they see fit.

The impetus for each applicant to spend this additional money on services provided by @UK is the fact that it has a unique 9.99 per month cloud-start-up ".com" package and will then support applicants with up to 2,000 of funded high-margin value added services of which @UK would recognise half the value in revenue. Despite the reduced margins for the company for this business (since it is providing a significant incentive for applicants to use its services by offering them at a 50% discount) we estimate that some 50% of each pound spent with the company will flow directly to profits.

The DWP initiative is estimated to cover an estimated 40,000 applicants. Whilst we can make no forecasts about the number of applicants signing up to this scheme, it is clear that the maximum potential incremental revenues to the company could be 40 million. Even if there is only a 5% sign-up with @UK this would equate to 2m of new revenues, an increase of 63% over our current 2012 forecast, and potential additional profits of some 1m, an increase of 250% over our current 2012 forecast.

However, at this early stage we are not making any changes to our PBT forecasts, which imply break even for the second half of 2011 before moving into profitability in 2012 as we continue to err on the side of caution. We stressed at the time of our initiation of coverage ("At the start of something big", 16 June 2011,
http://www.arbuthnotsecurities.co.uk/Research/id/5705) that we believe that there could be significant upside to our DCF-derived 25p target price in due course. This potential new revenue stream underpins that comment hence we reiterate our Strong Buy recommendation.

I'm 30% up already....wished I'd bought more!

and further up today, needs to change the trend from the downtrend since April

60% up since I bought in last month......should be alot more to come! (imho)

i have every confidence in atuk - good deals already in place - more to come thats for sure imo
have a good weekend all