Opinions
Howard Sutton
Enablence Technologies Inc.
ENA-X
COMMENT
Feb 13, 2008
Chip to bring broadband into the home through fibre. The issue has always been the cost of bringing fibre to the home. Their chipset is a piece of the puzzle but is dramatically dropping the price of providing services. Doesn't have revenue yet. There is huge expectation on delivery but you are getting into risk of execution.
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Have a product that would take fibre to the home. Has a high regard for the management team for what they have achieved and where they are going. It was always 2 steps ahead of where he could get his head around valuation. Leading edge technology. A “waiting on blue skies” story.
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Started with a single product and then made 5 acquisitions in the last year. As fibre-optic net works are built out this company, theoretically, should benefit from that. Their problem is they are not susceptible to analysis and he does not know how much money they are going to make, etc. Potentially interesting.
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New CEO is working on pulling separate units together to enable cross selling, which would be a huge advantage for them. Earnings had a loss of $0.09 in 2009, expected $0.01 in 2011 and $0.04 in 2012 giving a 17X PE, a 13% earnings growth. Watching to see how things unfold.
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Fiber optic technology right to your home, in rural areas. Young company. Not something he would normally follow, but knows the CEO. He was impressed with the way he manages his company. In this case the company had an acquisition but has not worked out the way they hoped. Still cash flow negative. He’s watching it for now.
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