Minutes of Roborough Investment Club Meeting
#18 - 10 October 2000

Attendees: Franz Fuchs, Andrew Watkins, Dave Johnston, Don Parker, Geoff Floyd, Andy Davies, Alan Worroll, Rick Haggitt, Martin Collinge, Stephen Andrew, Cyril Bouhallier, Phil Ainsley

Apologies: Allan Proudfoot, Richard Albon, Chris Bailey, Les Watson, Kevin Forrest, Alan Martin, Wez Davey

Agenda

1) Review Minutes of previous meeting

The minutes were reviewed and a small change was highlighted to the attendance as Steve was present at the last meeting.

2) Review actions

17.1 : GF, as agreed at a follow up meeting Geoff would go ahead and purchase the Company ref's CD. - COMPLETED

17.2 Alan ??: To gather more info on CML Micro - ONGOING

17.3 Kevin: To gather more info on ARC - ONGOING

3) Review Treasurers Report

One missing payment last month -

Rick Haggitt.

Shares purchase/sales this month

Sold Pace Micro Technology - £592.80 realising a profit of £332.05

Purchase 53 Volex for £1011.25

Purchase 1064 Tepnel Life Sciences (TED) for £1001.12

Dividends Received

None

Asset Summary

Name of Company

No shares

Average price

Total Cost

Selling price

Net selling value

Profit or loss to date

Change during month

Barclays

31

1676.13

519.60

1872.00

568.32

48.72

49.91

Bond Software

344

76.60

263.51

70.00

228.80

-34.71

0.00

Chloride

629

79.90

502.56

187.00

1164.23

661.67

-81.77

Fleming Euro IT

108

461.35

498.26

458.00

482.64

-15.62

17.28

ICI

90

571.37

514.23

384.00

333.60

-180.63

-71.10

Prudential

53

979.40

519.08

918.00

474.54

-44.54

9.01

Tepnel LC

1064

94.09

1001.12

84.00

881.76

-119.36

-119.36

Tesco

221

225.52

498.41

245.00

529.45

31.04

65.19

365 Corp

242

212.99

515.44

59.00

130.78

-384.66

-53.24

VI Group

658

40.01

263.29

37.00

231.46

-31.83

19.74

Volex

85

1795.11

1525.84

1950.00

1645.50

119.66

64.00

6212.47

6621.34

6671.08

49.74

-100.34

Unit price unchanged at 167.

Stop Loss

BARC

BDI

CHLD

FEF

ICI

PRU

TED

TSCO

TSF

VIG

VLX

Max

1876.00

110.50

207.50

466.50

562.00

1023.00

92.50

248.50

302.50

44.50

2117.50

Current

1876.00

70.50

205.50

463.50

379.00

938.50

88.00

246.25

67.50

37.00

2117.50

Change

100%

64%

99%

99%

67%

92%

95%

99%

22%

83%

100%

Original

1639.00

72.75

79.50

441.50

555.25

952.00

92.50

219.00

207.00

38.00

1650.00

Change

114%

97%

258%

105%

68%

99%

95%

112%

33%

97%

128%

BDI has dropped below the stop loss value at 64% of its peak value. Although it is still very close to the original purchase price.

ICI has dropped to 67% of its purchase price.

TSF is at 22% - We have already decided to hold on as it is now worth so little.

4) Review of current holdings

Each "share buddy" at the meeting gave a brief update about their share…

Share

Buddy

Notes

Recommendation

CHLD

Geoff Floyd

Keep it going

HOLD

TSF

Wez Davey

No Information

HOLD

BDI

Stephen Andrew

Just launched a product – a "boring old product", cannot see them doing exciting stuff. Do not see high growth. Would be high on the hitlist if we wanted to sell.

HOLD

 

Hit List #1

ICI

Andrew Watkins

Severely undervalued but may take time to recover

HOLD

VIG

Don Parker

Interim report shows ROCE 25% less than 1 year ago. Could be on the hit list.

HOLD

Hit List #2

PRU

Andy Davies

Flat share. Could be on the hit list

HOLD
Hit List #3

BARC

Richard Albon

No major changes, although Halifax may be starting a bank war with interest rates

 HOLD

TSCO

Alan Worroll

Interim results good. Government report did not harm them

 HOLD

FEF

Franz Fuchs

 No major changes

HOLD

VLX

Dave Johnson

 Good steady growth

HOLD

TED

Les Watson

 Due to report 11/10/00, due to announce a number of new home test products.

HOLD

 

4) Review Investment proposals

We all reviewed Parthus (PRH). We agreed to buy £1000 worth of the shares. We compared the company against ARC and came to the conclusion that we had more information about Parthus. We may have to react quickly to selling on "peaks". The company has share peaks when it makes IP and partnership/licencing announcements, similar to those of ARM.

Action 18.1 GF to purchase £1000 of Parthus shares

Phil will be the share buddy for the parthus share

6) AOB

We decided to create a "monitor-gain" point for each share to review if we sell a share for profit.

7) Agenda for next meeting

Next Meeting: 14th November 2000