Anyone interested in Filtronic?? Anyone have any views?



http://www.filtronic.co.uk



Audio CV of David Rhodes
http://www.theredtape.co.uk/medialinks/v1.8-cv.asx

Glad I sold out on this company which can't keep its words. This will slide further as investors will lose confidence in such a sloppy management!



Filtronic says no longer prudent to return 10 mln stg to shareholders in March
AFX


LONDON (AFX) - Filtronic PLC said it believes it is no longer 'prudent' to return an initial 10 mln stg of cash to shareholders following a decline in the value of the Powerwave Technologies Inc stock held by the company.

The telecoms equipment manufacturer said on Jan 29 that it would return an initial 10 mln stg by the way of the B share scheme by the end of March 2007.

Yes hlyeo --- funny statement

Can understand that can't distribute reserves at present if they are not selling Powerwave but find the use of the word "prudent" as strange

Now this co is trading perhaps 10% above value of cash and Powerwave holdings. Sure businesses currently do not make money but compund semi business could look interesting to others and these guys like to sell their businesses -- so co should be worth c200p IMHO

On the downside though is FD sold shares at 174p in early FEb -- why then as shares were on slide and business apparently undervalued ?

Secondly there is a class action re Powerwave, does this mean some problem with co selling shares and they are not letting on about it --- hence "not prudent"

Overall there should be 100p+ coming out of this co to shareholders in the next year if the management are to be believed and cash pile not required for businesses BUT they do tend come across as changing their minds on what they want to do.

Life in the old dog.

Why has FTC drop 67% today???

Ex 120p special dividend..

This has started moving again, don't know why, but have bought some for a momentum trade. H

Filtronic expects 2012 sales to rise to 25m


Filtronic's group sales are now projected to grow from 16m in the 2011 financial year to around 25m for 2012.

Filtronic - which designs and manufactures microwave electronics products for the wireless telecoms infrastructure market - says its point-to-point business continues to be faced with a number of challenges but also new opportunities as its product mix changes significantly over the next 18 months.

It adds: "Recent conversations with customers suggest a faster than expected phase-out of certain mature module products.

"This will have a negative impact on trading in the remainder of the financial year ending in May as well as into FY 2012.

"The business has also had to adjust to the impact of Ceragon's acquisition of NERA in January.

"Whilst sales of short-haul products to Ceragon are tailing off more sharply than expected, long haul product volumes (typically around 40% of historic sales to NERA) are expected to be sustained well into FY 2012."

PTP sales are expected to be around 12m in the 2011 financial year.

The early part of FY2012 will be hit by the Ceragon reductions and mature product phase-outs, while the second half will start to benefit from the new customers and products.

he overall expectation is for FY2012 PTP sales of just above 10m, weighted towards the second half.

The firm says Isotek is well-positioned to participate on several key programmes, especially in the US 4G market, and has been selected by Alcatel-Lucent as a supplier for both its AT&T and Sprint LTE programmes. However, there have been some recent customer programme delays during the early rollout phase.

These delays are expected to reduce FY2011 Isotek sales to 4m with consequent margin impacts compounded by short term component shortages.

Group sales are now projected to grow from 16m for FY2011 to around 25m for FY2012 with Isotek FY2012 expectations maintained at 15m.

A nice jump later in the day; I believe because of growth in the wireless infra structure division and related G4 technology. Surprised to be in profit now, hoping that the G4 runout in the UK/US and the release of the new i phone etc, will push the share price along a little more. H

Any ideas on why the fall in price? Whats the net assets in this company?

Hit 50p today.

This morning 75p.

sp steadily going down 53p and falling.

Reassuring RNS sp nicely up.

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Top faller.

Could this fall to 5p.