Photo-Me is a share which is just set to rocket. Please just have a look at this report.

UK’s largest operator of coin operated photo booths.
Previous spectacular growth richly cash generative operation
2000-2001 various issues caused collapse in share price
Issues been resolved but now other opportunities arising as well
Digital photo-processing machine manufacture making most of surge in popularity of digital photography
Largest customer Kodak (supplies the minilabs to the likes of Jessops and Boots)
Orders starting to build could soon lead to 125m turnover in this new part of the business

Photo booths 77% of 2003 forecast turnover (141m of 183m)
Digital Minilabs manufacture 38m

Last 5 years PHTM spent 186m on converting its analogue photo booths to digital
Caused increase in debt 2001
Debt now falling away rapidly as cash flow rises fast
Main areas of operation (75%)are UK, France and Japan
France and Japan highly profitable - UK some completion from Snap Digital (who are operating on possibly unsustainable terms to try and poach customers – may go bust inside 2 years)
UK situation now stabilising

Minilabs is the “big ticket” potential
Forecast to be 23% of 2003 sales
Digital cameras now 40% of all cameras purchased
So far only 5% of 200,000 photo processors have converted machines from analogue to digital
Kodak is world market leader – has 30-40,000 machines in US, UK,Europe up for renewal
Kodak has ordered DKS 1500 machine from PHTM – cheapest most efficient machine on the market.
PHTM expects to increase production of this machine to 200 per month – will at some point sub-contract this to China to cut costs and allow PHTM to concentrate on remaining market leader by developing next generation Digital Minilabs.

Schroders have been buying stock (17.1%)

They are in MI and SCSW portfolios – a 2003 Nap for MI and they say “keep buying” G.

Is it to do with the changes to passport photo requirements?

Is it curtains for photobooths? New Home Office rules lets travellers use pictures taken on their smartphones for online passport applications

There's also a Mail online on the 9th DEC saying Photo booths wil soon be able to send Passport applications directly to the Home Office says Photo Me . who to believe .

Must have seen this coming, you would think. Need to issue RNS pdq to reassure investors. Recent director share purchase looking a tad foolish otherwise. Chart looks way over sold. 140p needs to hold. Ex-Divi April.

I think Mobile phone application is going too far .

RNS out to answer drop .

Photo-Me notes fall in share price

StockMarketWire.com

Photo-Me has noted the fall in its share price today following media comment regarding photo ID regulations in the UK.

The company confirmed it has continued to trade in line with its expectation since its interim results announced on 9 December.

A statement says: "The company said it believes its latest technology represents a major growth opportunity as the most secure photo ID solutions available and that accepting photos from mobile phones for official documents is incompatible with developing security requirements.

"Photo-Me's solutions have been adopted by ANTS (Agence Nationale des Titres Securises, a national agency linked to the French Ministry of Transport and issuing secured official personal documents) as well as by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in the Republic of Ireland where trials are under way for photobooth secure online passport applications.

"Furthermore, it is currently in ongoing discussions with Her Majesty's Passport Office in order to equip its photobooths in the United Kingdom with the technology used in France."

At 3:01pm: (LON:PHTM) PhotoMe International PLC share price was -15p at 155.25p


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Photo-Me's Shares Are Under-Developed After Press Scare reckons Malcolm Stacey

Uncle Tom has said that Photo-Me (LSE:PHTM) is my favourite share. This is no longer quite true, but I do have a lot of faith (and money) wrapped up in the stock. However, the share price has taken a knock this week.

The reason seems to be a press story about the type of photos required for security purposes. In response, the share price of this company, which supplies and operates those little photo booths you find in shopping centres and bus and rail stations, took a dive. You would expect me to say - and I do - that this represents a buying opportunity. Though I won’t be putting my hand in my own pocket, as I already hold more than my personal ‘don’t over do it’ policies allow.

The company has quickly responded to the battered share price. It says it is already in talks with the British passport office to equip its booths in Britain to a (presumably higher) French standard. Photo-Me also claims that photos taken on your mobile phone will be ‘incompatible’ with security requirements, whereas its latest technology makes its pics the most secure available for id purposes.

One reason why I am not rushing to sell some of my stock is that the Photo-Me’s chief executive Serge Difficult-to-spell-surname put his hand in his pocket to buy himself a Christmas present of 4.9 million shares shares at about 57p a pop.

Would he have done that if the shares were likely to hit the skids? Only if he was raving mad, and all the indicators are that this is a shrewd cookie indeed. So once this bit of a set-back has passed, I expect the shares to continue their usual upward path.

Lovely CC .

He bought at 57p!!! How?

Good question Harry, don't shoot the messenger though :0)

I think that should read 157p........typo?

Serge Crasnianski, Chief Executive Officer, bought 2,892,607 shares in the company on the 20th December 2016 at a price of 158.00p. The Director now holds 84,610,701 shares.

Serge Crasnianski, Chief Executive Officer, bought 1,934,644 shares in the company on the 9th December 2016 at a price of 155.75p. The Director now holds 81,718,094 shares.

RNS id card rollout in Ireland passport .

Finncap has 215 target price on this today , and they put it down .

Super trading update today , this company does no wrong and gets slaughtered by MM's regularly , should be some upgrades but don't hold your breath on reaction .

This outfits been around a while.. A good trader by the looks of it's chart, whats the spread like usually?

It's a dam good company with increasing dividends and cash , the spread is usually small but with near criminal treatment by MM's .

Thanks,

"but with near criminal treatment by MM's ."

..In what way exactly?

On the 31st there were 3.5 million buys hardly any sells , yesterday similar buys to sells yet they dropped it nearly 6% .

Thanks again,

But so called buys and sells are not gospel are they.