image

The best stocks to buy since 1993

Latest issue now available

Tracsis - Eps enhancing acquisition of Ontrac

January 2016

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

  • Epic Code:
  • TRCS
  • Price:
  • 528p
Tracsis has pinned down a meaningful acquisition. It is buying Ontrac, a fellow software and services provider, focusing on process automation and document management, with a heavy weighting towards UK rail work.It has paid £7m up-front (£6m cash and 193,000 shares) plus the £4.6m of Ontrac’s balance sheet cash goes to the selling vendors. In addition there is £8m of deferred consideration. All told, on the basis that all stretch financial targets are achieved, a maximum of up to £19.5m gets paid.Based in Gateshead and London, Ontrac owns several annuity software assets such as the National Hazard Directory (a database of all risks and hazards around the UK rail infrastructure to which Netw ...

To access our archive of articles and to receive current issues you need to subscribe.

Subscribe now

Already a subscriber? Login

With small companies there is an above average degree of risk compared to buying blue chips. Please be aware that we have not assessed the suitability of any of these investments for you. The newsletter simply states a personal view and diarises the editor’s investment decisions. Please speak to your stockbroker or other qualified individual to ascertain whether any of these companies mentioned would form useful additions to your own portfolios. Past performance is no indication of future success.

All material on this website is protected by copyright. You may use Information retrieved from the www.scsw.co.uk website for your own personal non-commercial use which means that you may not sell or copy this information to any third party without prior written consent. ISSN 1358-183X

LIMITED PERIOD OFFER!

SUBSCRIBE TODAY AND SAVE £30 WITH OFFER CODE 30OFFSCSW

To access our archive of articles and to receive current issues you need to subscribe