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Frontier Smart Technology

October 2018

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  • Epic Code:
  • FST
  • Price:
  • 71p
In my last update, I suggested the shares would bounce post the interims to 30 June and they have, albeit I did not expect them to have retraced as much as they did.Interims showed revenues fell from US$25m to US$17m. Segmentally, DAB, where Frontier has a dominant 80% market position, saw a year-on-year decline because the prior year revenues had benefited from the switch-off of FM in Norway (which boosted H1 17 sales by 10%). This half’s sales decline was greater than this (36% drop to US$14.9m) because distributors were holding excess stock at the start of the period. Segmental EBITDA fell from US$6.4m to US$3m.But the FST story isn’t about DAB but about the new smart, voice-enabled personal assistants (VPAs) a ...

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