Good morning! Here is my usual trawl through the morning's RNSs, looking for the undervalued and overlooked.
Staffline (LON:STAF)
Recruitment/outsourcing group Staffline (STAF) has issued a short & sweet trading statement, saying that 2012 earnings will be in line with market expectations. They reiterate they are, "well placed to continue to capitalise on a number of strategic opportunities that exist across our business", the biggest one of which is the Govt's welfare to work programme (which could become pretty lucrative for STAF in the next 5 years).
Morningstar shows the broker consensus EPS as 33.6p for 2012, so that puts STAF on a fairly cheap PER of 8.9 times 2012 earnings. There is also a 8.3p forecast divi, giving a yield of 2.8%. So it's no longer amazing value, but certainly good value. However, if EPS grows as forecast to 40p (with a 9.5p divi) then the 2013 forecast PER falls to 7.5, and the yield rises to 3.2%, which is looking a lot more interesting.
STAF has been heavily tipped by the Mail on Sunday, so I suspect that pulled in a lot of the recent buyers, so personally I shall sit this one out, and look to buy back in any significant pullback to say the 260-270p area.
On 4 Sep 2012 I published a report here following a private client broker lunch I attended with Staffline's Directors, and was very impressed. I bought shares at 226p, although have recently sold them at c.300p, in order to recycle the money into something that hasn't yet moved up (Vianet), but looks like it will once the overhang from a large seller is cleared.
Incidentally, I also made Staffline the "share of the month" for Sep 2012 on my sister site, Small Cap Value, which I'm pleased to say is now up & running again after some major IT problems (had to recreate the website from scratch, but have installed proper automatic backups now, so should be fine in future).
NetPlay TV (LON:NPT)
Netplay TV (NPT), the interactive gaming company, puts out a strong Q4 & full year trading statement, indicating that they are confident of exceeding full year…
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Staffline Group plc is a holding company, which is engaged in the provision of recruitment and outsourced human resource services to industry and services in the welfare to work arena and skills training. The Company has two segments: Staffing Services, which includes the provision of temporary staff to customers, and PeoplePlus, which includes the provision of welfare to work and other training services. Its Staffing Services focuses on providing complete labor solutions in agriculture, food processing, manufacturing, e-retail, driving and the logistics sectors. Its recruitment business operates from well over 300 locations in the United Kingdom, Eire and Poland. The Staffing brands include Staffline OnSite, based on clients' premises providing both blue and white collar, out-sourced, temporary workforces. Its Employability includes work program, prime contractor in over nine regions and sub-contracts in approximately five regions in England. more »
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NetPlay TV plc is a United Kingdom-based online gaming company. The Company operates various interactive gaming services under an Alderney gaming license. The Company operates through two segments: Business-to-Customer (B2C) and Business-to-Business (B2B). B2C consists of various online products and ancillary income. The brands operated in this division are Supercasino.com, Jackpot247.com and Vernons.com. These brands operate online gaming and betting products. B2B relates to the online marketing, product development and technology business. The Company allows its customers to interact with its games on various platforms, such as television, Internet, mobile and tablet from a common integrated wallet. Its SuperCasino offers slot machine games, live dealer blackjack and baccarat, card games, a selection of casino table games, video poker and instant-win arcade games. Its Jackpot247 hosts games in the Playtech Latvian studio and their online casino games. more »
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You must have published this minutes before Vianet (LON:VNET) started moving today, up 15p to 118p, on news that New Solera had reduced to sub-3%. Thanks for your research posted on this elsewhere, which led me to DMOR and buy at 102.5p on New Year's Eve. Onwards and upwards from here...
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