Zytronic (#ZYT) – H2 sales +44% on H1, returning it to full-year operating profitability

It Could Be Up and Away for this Techie Manufacturer that Likes to Be in touch

Hello, Share Searchers. Zytronic (ZYT), a niche company which makes touch sensors, has just released an encouraging trading update. It says that a loss made in the first half of this year has turned into a profit in the second.

This Niche Venture that Plays it By Touch could Recover Fast after its Covid Battering

Hello, Share Bunnies. You can glean by the Footsie still being about 7% lower than pre-covid levels that some firms are still in the doldrums after being kicked by the bug. Of course also, the Footsie would be even lower than it is if some companies had not actually done well out of the affliction. But one company whose sales plummeted is Zytronic (ZYT).

King of the Touch Screen World Is Bashed by the Virus, But It Could have Been Worse. And Now Zytronic Is On the Up

Hello, Share Watchers. A company which suffered from lack of orders due to the coronavirus is now raring to go again. Zytronic (ZYT), a Geordie firm which makes touch sensors, has released its half-year figures to March 31st 2021. And they could have been worse.

Zytronic (#ZYT) – proposed £10m tender offer at 145p per share

Zytronic – currently orders “slight increase”, so why a further share price fall?...

A trading update from manufacturer of touch sensors Zytronic (ZYT) includes “the downturn in sales experienced in the second half of last year has now levelled out at approximately £2.0m for the quarter to 30 September 2020 and the first quarter of this financial year to 31 December 2020”. So why are the shares currently 10% further lower to 135p?...

Zytronic (#ZYT) – downturn in sales “levelled out” but “difficult to foresee a return to profits in this financial year”

Zytronic – results, trading challenging… but a longer-term recovery buy?

Previously writing on manufacturer of products for electronic displays Zytronic (ZYT), in October I suggested value recovery potential but noted it “facing uncertainty regarding levels of future business” and on the watchlist. Now results for its year ended 30th September 2020 have been published. On the surface they look bad, but if you dig deeper maybe this has attractions as an investment...

Zytronic (#ZYT) – FY swing to loss, no dividend, argues now has adjusted operations to lower levels of demand

Zytronic – “uncertainty regarding levels of future business”… but potential value?...

Previously writing on manufacturer of products for electronic displays Zytronic (ZYT), in May with a little more than 100p share price I concluded including the impact of the “difficult and unprecedented circumstances” of the response to COVID-19 need to be considered, but I suggest there still potential value here and it worth looking out for the “we shall keep shareholders informed of any material developments”. Today a trading update...

Zytronic (#ZYT) – “sales for the year to 30 September 2020 have reduced to £12.7m (2019: £20.7m) and the business has remained profitable before exceptional items”

Zytronic – “difficult and unprecedented circumstances”… but potential value?

Zytronic (ZYT), a manufacturer of products for electronic displays, has announced results for its half-year ended 31st March 2020, with hopes including “our growth markets within the APAC countries where the pandemic has had the earliest effects will hopefully return to normality quicker than others”. A still little more than 100p share price though compares to 250p hit early in 2020...

Zytronic (#ZYT) – Dec & Jan revenues “continued to be considerably behind last year”, though “order intake during January has shown a significant increase”

Zytronic – “level of enquiries for new projects are higher than last year”… so why further share price decline?

Previously writing on touch sensors company Zytronic (ZYT), in May I concluded; with also such an update as this latest not until more than a month after the period end, even at a now comfortably sub 300p share price I continue to avoid. The shares are currently further sub 200p on the back of year ended 30th September 2019 results…

Zytronic – having previously argued “several opportunities… with the potential to improve future performance materially”…

Previously writing on touch sensors company Zytronic (ZYT), in October - with the shares at 387.5p - I cautioned despite the company arguing “several opportunities in its pipeline with the potential to improve future performance materially”. Today a further “Trading Update”…

Zytronic (#ZYT) – warns due to “decline of the sales of products into the Gaming sector”

Zytronic – revenue “in-line with market expectations”, so why a 9% share price fall?

A trading update from touch sensor products developer and manufacturer Zytronic (ZYT) commences; “Trading in the second half of the year showed a 10% improvement in revenues over the first half, totalling £11.7m, resulting in total revenues for the year of £22.3m which is in-line with market expectations”. So why currently a 9% share price fall, to 387.5p?...

Zytronic (#ZYT) – profit warning due to lower margins & litigation costs

Zytronic – ‘pleased to report a doubling of the dividend’, so why a share price decline?

Touch sensors manufacturer Zytronic (ZYT) “is pleased to report a doubling of the interim dividend to 7.6p (H1 2017: 3.8p) in line with our progressive dividend policy, and the continued development of our business into new markets”. Sounds promising – and the shares have currently responded… more than 8% lower, towards 400p. Ah…

Zytronic – AGM Trading Update, valuation still look little (if any) better than fair enough?

I previously wrote on touch sensors company Zytronic (ZYT) in December, concluding then that a circa 500p share price looked little, if any, better than fair enough. There is now an update on the first four months of its current financial year…