Topped the share charts on Friday following a lucrative contract announcement and is rumoured to have several more contracts in the pipeline.

Website www.coms.com

The movement in the share price today was significant, far more sells than buy yet the SP has risen well. I imagine that the explanation may lie in a big delayed trade or director buy that will perhaps show up tomorrow.

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4609773

Highlights

· Revenues on continuing operations increased by 46% to £1.62m (2012: £1.1m)

· Gross profit on continuing operations increased by 55% to £0.93m (2012: £0.60m)

· Gross profit margin on continuing operations increased to 57% from 54%

· Disposal of VCOMM UK Ltd, the Group's equipment distributor

CEO's Statement

Coms made very little traction during the year 2012/13 and the actual financial performance was disappointing.

I was appointed CEO on the 9th January 2013 after investing my own money and embarked immediately on a turnaround of the business. However with only 3 weeks of the financial year remaining there was no time to make an impact upon the 2012/2013 fiscal year.



However the plans to turn the business around have been put in place, I have strengthened the Board and Management and clearly communicated the new focus and strategy for the business.



Overall, the market for hosted VoIP services continues to expand as customers seek alternative lower cost solutions to traditional fixed line carriers. The main market for Coms has always traditionally been SME businesses. However this will evolve and expand such that all customers large and small will be catered for within the new strategy. This can be demonstrated with the large contract win recently announced, amongst several other smaller contract wins and the positive activity the Company has announced since I have joined the business.



Following the placing announced on 14 May 2013, the finances of Coms are now on a stable footing and I am extremely excited and proud to be part of the new Coms plc story. I am very confident that the Group is now in good shape and under control. I look forward to working with the refocused Board and Management and to creating significant shareholder value.


David Breith

CEO

The RNS was exactly what we expected and it is good to have that one out of the way. Thank goodness that Drummond is gone (Although he still holds some shares). The future from here onwards looks extremely promising.

The market agrees with your last sentence 4PetesSake - nice intraday reversal and up 15.79% now.

A smart move by David Breith to get the Final Results out a month early and draw a line under the past. There's a clear statement of intent and confidence in his own ability and the ability of his team to deliver.

A more recent Zak Mir article.

http://www.tradersown.co.uk//magazine/read/coms-coms-half-way-up-to-5p_1600.html#sthash.mo5oNUGZ.dpbs

The significance of the quarterly trading update in the RNS on 13th May has probably been overlooked my many who perhaps concentrated on comparing the annual losses to the previous year. My reason for saying this is that on 13th May the SP fell by 15.5% from 2.58p to 2.18p, whereas if people had spent time analysing the update, the SP should have risen.

The figures in the update also allowed us to compare compare Coms’s Trading Update for the 3 months ending 30th April (exc. Vcomm which has been sold) to the previous 12 month figure and it make for very positive reading.

For the 12 months ending 31 Jan:

Turnover – £1,600,00
Gross Profit – £950,000
Ebitda – £850,000 (loss)

For the 3 months ending 30th April: (All under DB)

Turnover – £570.000
Gross Profit – £331,000
Ebitda – £59,000 (loss)

The massive improvement in the Ebitda is a real indication of the way that the company is being turned around. However when you then factor in the new big contract that was announced right at the end of the quarter on 26th April then you can see what a game changer that is.

The revenue from that contract alone amounts to £1,875,000 per quarter.

The Company's new in-direct sales (wholesale) division has also built a pipeline of sales prospects, which represents a potential of just over £7m annualised revenue or £1,750,000 per quarter.

The retail division has also won 3 new contracts with two NHS Trusts based in the North and a Police Constabulary based in the South East. Its sales pipeline is currently showing a potential gross margin of over £300,000 per quarter.

There is also the Government sales activity initiative (now enhanced by the G-Cloud iii accreditation) which is likely to generate additional sales for the remainder of this financial year and beyond.

Almost all this information is contained in the Trading Update RNS, I have just paraphrased it.

All this will make the trading update for the quarter ending 31st July very interesting reading. We will be no longer be looking at an Ebitda Loss but rather working out the margin of the positive Ebitda in relation to the turnover.

The chance of buying in much below the current SP is a pretty forlorn hope.

was thinking about it a few months but have now bought in this morning at 2.77p..onwards and upwards!

I hope the share price takes after your name skyhigh! The next trading update should make good reading.

www.directorstalk.com - article posted this morning for any Zak Mir followers, predicting a breakout towards 5p as early as this week.

4 days to go then! Bring it on!

Double acquisition of network assets

Coms plc. (AIM: COMS), is pleased to announce it has acquired two sets of telecoms and IT hardware used in providing data networks. The Company has acquired one set of assets from the Company's CEO, Dave Breith for a price of £200,000. In addition it has acquired another set of assets from TFM Networks Limited for a consideration of £480,000 Both acquisitions are payable in Coms ordinary shares of 0.1p each ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 2.7 pence per share for the TFM assets and 3 pence for the Dave Breith assets. For a period of three months, all parties have agreed not to sell any shares without the permission of the Coms plc board.


Related Party transaction

Coms plc. (AIM: COMS), is pleased to announce it has acquired the entire issued share capital Premium O Limited (Premium O) for a consideration of £1,800,000 payable entirely in Coms ordinary shares of 0.1p ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 3 pence per share. The consideration will comprise an initial consideration of 80%, with 20% deferred until Premium O has generated for Coms an additional gross margin of a least £55,000 per month for at least three months. Once this condition has been satisfied, the issue of the shares is at the option of the individual Premium O shareholders

Iain Ross (Coms independent non-executive director) states "The purchase of these 2 networks and combining them gives Coms plc an additional and powerful business advantage. By being able to provide data and broadband in-house gives us the control we need for our core hosted and cloud based services and well as massive upsell opportunities to our growing customer base. This will also help the roll out for our recent large contract win and add additional profitability to the business"

Acquisition and Related Party - Replacement

This announcement replaces RNS 8246G released on the 12 June 2013 at 07:05. The number of shares to be issued to Suzannah Doyle has been corrected to 240,000 and 60,000 and the number of shares to David Breith has been corrected to 35,700,000. In all other respects, the announcement is unchanged.

Thanks skinny, I noticed you posted that on another bulletin board which has two COMS threads - one thread is like a zoo and the other, with David Breith's name in the header, is moderated and is reasonably civilised. Just in case you weren't aware!

Noted!

just another share being ramped big time!

I sometimes wonder why you bother halifax, are you just a natural Victor Meldrew?:-)