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.

Most likely their reporter have been reading this thread............


The Times, market report this morning

* Photo-Me International gained 4p to 30p after it emerged that Philippe Wahl, a former director, had raised his stake from 5.2 per cent to 7.2 per cent. There is speculation that he and Dan David, the companys 78-year-old former chairman, who has built a 10.2 per cent stake, could bid for the photobooth maker.

PHTM 33.50 - 34.25p +3.875p
Intraday BREAKOUT once it went over 33.75p

BREAKOUT

Photo-Me issues Q3, FY profit warning - AFX

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Photo-Me International PLC, the digital imaging company, has announced that Q3 revenue and pretax profit were behind its expectations, and said it is unlikely to make a full-year pretax profit.

It said for the full-year ending April 30 2008 pre-ex pretax profits would fall short of market expectations due to 'reduced expected revenues and associated profit across the business'.

The company has decided not to resume its share buyback programme until it works out its future strategy, which is being formulated by new chief executive Thierry Barel.

The profit warning follows a similar warning in December when it announced its first half results. At that time the company said it was unlikely it would be profitable for the second half, traditionally its weakest.

At the half way point, Photo-Me reported a pre-ex, pretax profit of 7.3 mln stg, down from 11.9 mln stg in the same period last year.

ben.deighton@thomson.com

10p now a real possibility.

another great call master rsi bator......how is your VOC?

amazing some clowns hang about so long

Breaking out to the downside again.

And time to have another go at the shares
Bouncing for the last couple days from lows, today with volume and news of forced directors resignations

Photo-Me's ex-CEO seen in boardroom power play

LONDON (Reuters) - London-listed photo booth operator Photo-Me International (PHTM.L: Quote, Profile, Research) had another top-level shakeout on Tuesday as ousted CEO Serge Crasnianski flexed his shareholder muscle to try and re-establish his grip on the board, an analyst said.

Frenchman Crasnianski, a former nuclear physicist and 20 percent shareholder forced from the company last year after pressure from hedge funds, got backing from fellow shareholders to force the resignation of chairman David Young and two non-executive directors, Photo-Me announced on Tuesday.

"Serge Crasnianski is now obviously going to be running this thing again, and the British directors are out," said analyst Roger Hardman at corporate research house Hardman & Co.

"I think Crasnianksi will want to come in and protect his money; this is his pension scheme," said Hardman. "He had been looking for a way of easing out and gently retiring; there's no way he will want to retire with the shares down at 17p."

Photo-Me, which operates around 22,000 photo booths worldwide, often in stations or airports where people get passport photos, issued a profit warning in March.

Activist shareholder Principle Capital, which owns 8.2 percent of the shares, according to Reuters Data, spent last summer campaigning against Crasnianski, saying they had "lost confidence" in management and feared they would sell the photo booth division at too low a price.

Shares in Principle Capital's listed Investment Trust (PCIT.L: Quote, Profile, Research) closed 8 percent lower on Tuesday.

Photo-Me's shares, which have fallen around three quarters in the last 12 months, closed up 3.3 percent at 16p.

"You have to count as a possibility that Crasnianski will take it private," Hardman added.

Interim Finance Director Simon Poulton, who became FD just a month ago, also resigned on Tuesday, along with non-executive directors Martin Reavley and Roger Partington.

Crasnianski and chairman Vernon Sankey were forced out by activist shareholders last year and replaced by Young and new chief executive Thierry Barel.

Crasnianski was not reachable for comment. Principle Capital was not available for comment.

Yeah great news , no directors and no FD ..... just the guy who got them in a mess in the first place.

Master-bator.......r u maestro in disguise? you are about as much use as him..........at what price did you buy this shite?

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They say: do not though stones if you live in GLAS - GOW

re - what price did you buy this....

The same price it was the day I posted 15.95p

Yes I buy by the indicators ( little boy ) last time IN at 23.723 and sold 8 days later at 33.50p a good 41.2% and did not even pay for the stock, it was a T+20.

You must be a foul if one hold shares with this market, specialy as the market is expected to go well down an a few month, do not forgot to sell in May, though the big bang is going to be later

There we go Treb ... he even sold at the top , bloody genius.

yip dil thought as much......wow master...you are great can you give us more of your stock pick...you rock my world

Next time think twice if you have any brain, and try to keep you mouth SHUT, otherwise a " TREBLE WIDE " could get in.

Blue arrow IN read arrow 0ut




The chart at the moment is doing higher lows so not moving up fast just like last time but very positive so far

so after the fact you bought at the bottom and sold at the top.........i can do that every time....next time gumball put your trade up when you do it as you coming on here and saying that after the fact means feck all i am afraid......you still rock my world

Treblewide

If you were not such a lasy B#stard, then I will not have to post past one,s from me that clearly say so, But I will never say "BUY or SELL" because I am not authorised to do so.
"UPS" is a weekly thread that I started 6 years ago and still going strong, it means time to pick up the stock, and overbough, time to get rid of the stock, naturally short term.

From the UPS thread .........

Master RSI - 07 Feb 2008 21:14 - 42 of 67
"UPS" (Added by Master RSI on Thu 07 Feb 04:54 pm)
PHTM - Mid 23.675p
Reason - Former directors buy 10.2% and 5.23%, just resign one of them, so it looks like a prelude to a future TAKE OVER. Share price is bouncing from lows on volume, going 1p X-dividend and share buy back after AGM end February

...not authorised to do so...........hee hee you are funny...yip there is an army of people waiting for you to say buy or sell on here......but obviously a man of your capability needs to be regulated by the FSA due to your vast following.

i think you rock everyone's worlds

Ummm Master I missed the bit where it said sell due to it being over bought , which post was that ?

And what is the "UPS thread" ... Useless Piles of Shite thread or something ?