Cordel Group - Positive steps towards ambitious FY24 goals

Cordel’s Q324 update shows progress towards the group’s FY24 revenue expectation and other objectives, supporting our forecasts. Doubling the customer base by year-end is a key milestone, which encouragingly looks set to come in part from tier-one US railroads, offering the greatest scope for large seven-figure contracts from its target markets. Developments with Amtrak, as Cordel moves to the five-year service phase, and Angel Trains in the UK provide positive indicators for stable recurring re

Cordel Group plc (CRDL LN) - Encouraging trading update

Cordel has issued a short but positive update for the quarter to the end of March. The Group is making good progress with the contract pipeline and reiterated revenue guidance for the full year. Key relationships with Amtrak, Angel Trains and Network Rail are growing, and Cordel continues to ramp-up business development activity in new and existing markets. Selective hiring to complete the build-out of the team and platform has continued but is nearly complete; operational gearing is now high. T

Hybridan Small Cap Feast - 14 Feb 24

14th February 2024 @HybridanLLP Status of this Note and Disclaimer This document has been issued to you by Hybridan LLP for information purposes only and should not be construed in any circumstances as an offer to sell or solicitation of any offer to buy any security or other financial instrument, nor shall it, or the fact of its distribution, form the basis of, or be relied upon in connection with, any contract relating to such action. This document has no regard for the specific investment obj

Cordel Group - Railtech play with scalable potential

Cordel Group is a UK technology company that provides an end-to-end data management platform for automated rail infrastructure monitoring. At its core, the company transforms fragmented legacy datasets into a ‘single source of truth’ to monitor networks in near real time, improving safety and mitigating long-term costs. Now embedded in major railroad networks globally, Cordel is positioned to scale either through hardware sales to update legacy data or through AI-powered use cases without a prop

Cordel Group pl (CRDL LN) - Strong H1, outlook positive

Cordel has reported a strong first half performance with revenue up 108% (at £1.96m) and expenses and cash in line with our expectations.

Hybridan Small Cap Feast 13/11/2023

Dish of the day Joiners: No joiners today. Leavers: IOG PLC (IOG.L) has left AIM. What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen?** 9 November: Chapel Down Group ITF: England's leading and largest wine producer with an award-winning range of sparkling and still wines, under the Chapel Down brand. The Company owns, leases and sources from 1,023 acres of vineyards in South East England announces its Admission to AIM after its transfer from the Aquis Apex market. The Company will not be raising new capital or p

Cordel Group (CRDL LN) - Delivering on numbers and the growth plan

Cordel has reported a strong performance in FY23, executing the growth plan outlined at the March fundraising and delivering on the numbers. Full year revenue was up 34% to c. £3m, in line with our estimate.

Hybridan Small Cap Feast 27/10/2023

Dish of the day Joiners: No joiners today. Leavers: No leavers today. What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen?** Announced ITF 2 October: Adsure Services, the holding company for TIAA Limited, a specialist business assurance provider operating across the Housing, Healthcare, Government, Education, Charities, and other sectors in the UK, intends to join the Access Segment of the AQSE Growth Market. Admission expected on 30 October. Tekcapital announced intention to spin off and IPO on 2 October: MicroS

Cordel Group (CRDL LN) - Two further contract wins

Cordel Group, the AI platform for transport corridor analytics, has announced it has been awarded two further contracts to add to the agreement signed with Network Rail High Speed (HS1) earlier this week.

Hybridan Small Cap Feast 24-10-2023

Dish of the day Joiners: No joiners today. Leavers: No leavers today. What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen?** Announced ITF 11 October: Cykel AI, the Company developing artificial intelligence AI software designed and trained to execute commands in response to natural language directives, specifically within the realm of computer interfaces, intends to join the Access Segment of the AQSE Growth Market. Admission on or around 25 October. Announced ITF 2 October: Adsure Services, the holding company

Cordel Group (CRDL LN) - Network Rail High Speed contract win

Cordel Group, the AI platform for transport corridor analytics, has announced it has been awarded a contract for data capture and analysis with Network Rail (High Speed) Ltd, which maintains the railway infrastructure for High Speed One (HS1). This is a one-year contract, but we believe with potential to grow significantly over the next few years. The roll out of Cordel’s automated data capture and inspection management service should enable a step change in the rapid and efficient collection of

Hybridan Small Cap Feast 07/08/2023

Joiners: No joiners today. Leavers: No leavers today. What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen?** Announced ITF 4 August: Tan Delta Systems plc, a Sheffield based Company intends to IPO on AIM. Tan Delta has developed an innovative and differentiated monitoring solution based on real time oil analysis and analytics that offers equipment operators enhanced insight into the maintenance status of their equipment and thus the ability to reduce maintenance costs, improve reliability and reduce carbon footpr

Cordel Group plc (CRDL LN) - Positive trading update

Cordel has issued a positive trading update for the year to 30 June.

Audioboom Group - Q1 24 revenue growth of +11%, FY24E forecasts reiterated

Audioboom’s FY23 results and Q1 trading update show Q1 24 revenue growth of +11% yoy, $6.7m of March 2024 revenue marking the platform’s highest revenue month since May 2022, and a confident outlook that leads us to reiterate our FY24E forecasts. Following the focus on new initiatives through FY23, the platform is now in its strongest ever operational position, with a record 1.1bn monthly ad impressions created in March 2024, record global audience reach of 38.6m unique global listeners in Janua

Morning Note – 16 April 2024

Alphawave Semi: FY23 trading update, amended forward guidance

Alphawave Semi has reduced guidance for FY23 and prospectively citing lower revenues from China, changes in expected revenue recognition from long-term contracts, and continuing investment in R&D. The share price has reacted negatively, giving up most of the gains since the trading statement at the end of January. Current consensus, which is a good match for pre-existing guidance, should be reduced, most likely following release of the FY23 results and full 1Q24 trading update due on 23 April. H

Soft growth patch

Morning Note – 15 April 2024

Checkit - New product launch and contract wins

Checkit has won contracts with two customers worth at least £417k over the three-year lives of the contracts, confirming its ability to upsell to its existing customer base and supporting our forecasts. Having trialled the new technology with multiple customers, Checkit has launched its Asset Intelligence module, which uses advanced analytics and machine learning to enhance customer sustainability, reduce costs and increase revenue.

Auction Technology Group - H1/24 Trading update

ATG’s H1/24 trading statement indicates revenue for the six-month period to 31 March 2024 was $86m, a 6% increase on H1/23 (1% organic growth), helped by the addition of the EstateSales.Net (ESN) marketplace last year, which performed well in the period. Total marketplace revenue increased 2% (organic), driven by growth in value-added services (VAS) and event fees, offsetting a decline in commission revenue (mainly through lower asset prices).

Engage XR Holdings - Expanding from FY23, FY24E forecasts reiterated

ENGAGE XR’s FY23 results show revenue and net cash in line with the February trading update, EBITDA ahead at -€4.0m vs -€4.5m due to the split of cash outflow between opex and working capital, and a confident outlook that leads us to reiterate our FY24E forecasts. FY23 revenue for the core ENGAGE platform was unchanged vs FY22 at €3.3m, as H2 23 revenue was impacted by the record seven-figure contract announced in February shifting to 2024, and several enterprise customers scaling back renewals

FY23 results in line – and a flying start to FY24

ENGAGE XR has published its FY23 full year results, the headlines of which reflect the details provided in February’s post close trading update in terms of revenue, EBITDA loss and net cash. ENGAGE XR has signed a rapidly growing number of strategic and commercial partnership agreements with companies invested in promoting the VR medium and the development of corporate metaverses.

It’s not what you sell, it’s the way that you sell it

This report is intended to help UK small- and mid-cap investors gain a better understanding of software companies’ routes to market, and to highlight how one of the most important facets of the way in which they grow and deliver value is routinely ignored.  We examine sales processes for six UK-listed companies and one that has recently been taken over, and consider why they have followed their respective paths.

Hybridan Small Cap Feast - 15 April 24

15th April 2024 * A corporate client of Hybridan LLP ** Arranged by type of listing and date of announcement *** Alphabetically arranged **** Potential means Intention to Float (ITF) has been announced Dish of the day Admissions: Delistings: What’s baking in the oven? ** Potential**** Initial Public Offerings: Reverse Takeovers: Change of Market: TheWorks (WRKS.L) a multi-channel value retailers of books, arts and crafts, stationery, toys and games, offering customers a differentiated propositio

CML Microsystems+ (CML, House Stock at 395p) - Board & Senior Management Appointments

Alphawave Semi: 4Q23 trading update – FY23 guidance reiterated

Alphawave Semi has published its 4Q23 trading and business update, reiterating its guidance for FY23 with multiple new wins, a strong pipeline and good progress toward generating revenue from its Connectivity Products Group in 2024. Total new bookings of US$128.7m in 4Q23 were a record and increased by 36% YoY. Alphawave Semi continues to transition the company following the acquisitions in 2022, re-focusing the OpenFive business on leading edge technology. The transitioning process weighed on t

PROGRESSIVE: CML Microsystems: Ripples not waves – still on growth course

The trading update confirms revenues in line with our expectations. Excess inventory flow through and market softness in China have impacted CML’s core business, but Microwave Technologies Inc (MwT) is performing ahead of expectations. The net effect, along with MwT acquisition related costs, is that Reported PBT and EBITDA are to be lower than expectations, but not substantially so. The long-term investment case is founded upon the opportunity in next-generation wireless and, with £18m cash and

Morning Note – 8 April 2024