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Pinned straw:

Added a month ago

Welcome as it is I find a 14% jump in SP on no news in weeks a bit disconcerting… is this just a case of small volumes? (900,000 shares traded) or is an institution building a position? Or something else entirely?

mikebrisy
Added a month ago

@GazD I ran an XmR Chart on daily volumes at 3-SD level.Upper Control Limit (UCL) showing in Green. 99.7% should be within limit. (Anyone interested in the method, here's a link: XmR Charts)

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Today's volumes just hit the UCL, being the 3rd day in recent weeks. This implies there is high confidence of an assignable cause to the departure from "normal" volumes. Perhaps a large investor/fund is accumlating and willing to do so at prices up to the current TP consensus, which is $0.725?

Interestingly, after the buying price spikes, the next day volumes are back to normal with profit-takers having an outsized negative impact on bringing the SP back to its previous level. (See below)

So overall, it looks like there is more demand for $SPZ than supply, with at these levels more investors looking to enter or accumulate that those looking to lighten or exit.

I've never done this analysis on stocks before (it is a standard tool in managing business operations) - but your question got me curious, so I thought I'd have a go.

It doesn't have any practical implications for me. I agree with analysts that around $0.70 to $0.75 $SPZ is fairly valued, the uncertainty is still wide, and so I wouldn't contemplate selling anywhere below $1.00 and, for now, my position size is about right (3.5%).

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GazD
Added a month ago

Thanks @mikebrisy this makes a lot of sense to me, kind of equivalent to the alway we use p values in medical trials to assign a probability than outcome has occurred by chance. Fascinating and valuable as ever to get your thoughts.

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Wini
Added a month ago

@GazD @mikebrisy I suspect you are right and it's a larger Fund elegantly trying to build a position in an illiquid microcap. The only fundamental reason I can think of is perhaps Queensland Liberals will be more favourable to business and repeal the ban put in place on ANPR charges but I don't believe they have put forward proposals leading up to the election.

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GazD
Added a month ago

@Wini does it need to be discrete catalyst for fundie jnterest (eg regulatory change) or could it just be the growing track record of profitable growth?

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lowway
Added a month ago

Based on the mantra used for some time now by the Qld LNP, it will be at least 100 days before there's any inkling about possible changes to charges on ANPR and i think they have bigger fish to fry for some time after that 100 days before they move onto other (smaller) business. Besides having been in exile for 10 years, they will have some serious catching up to do on policy making and decision making, I.e. stuff you don't have to do in opposition.And they will be watched closely for any changes to current charges or taxes for the rank & file. IMHO of course!!

To that point, @Wini @GazD @mikebrisy and others, what do you think the additional revenue could look like if $SPZ could charge a fee for automatic number plate recognition?



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GazD
Added a month ago

I haven’t looked at Queensland specifically with regards ANPR @lowway As I saw it as dead in the water but my understanding would be that they might start to build out their sites again as they are internationally… not a big part of my thesis.

Did find this interesting titbit online though… core of it is that Rockhampton council has introduced ANPR for council use and will issue parking fines based on same… Not sure that this is much different from what SPZ would be doing unless government wants to draw an arbitrary line between public and private.

https://www.rockhamptonregion.qld.gov.au/AboutCouncil/News-and-announcements/Latest-News/Council-goes-digital-with-smart-parking-technology

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mikebrisy
Added a month ago

@lowway I’m not sure I’ve understood the question correctly, as $SPZ’s QLD was mainly from PBNs.

In FY22 before the “ban” QLD had 38 sites, delivering $402k revenue from about 15k PBNs.

That makes c. $10k per site … of course probably higher because not all sites operating for the full year, so looking at the growth profile more like $13k per site.

$SPZ said that there are c. 2000 ANPR potential sites in QLD. So that’s a PBN market opportunity of the order of $26m.

If a re-entry to QLD could capture 10% of sites then the revenue potential is c. $3m.

But I think you were asking a different question, driving revenue off the ANPR technology. I haven’t figured out how to estimate that.

Living in QLD I fear the world has moved on. In Brisbane all the council car parks I use have implemented the Cellopark app integrated with ANPR technology. All car parking spaces at UQ use Cellopark without ANPR.

Other smaller private car parks (like our local Woollies) have ANPR tech with 2 hr free followed by charges per hour. A week ago my wife’s car broke down and spent the night there, paying $70 for the privilege. Not a PBN, strictly, but the fee for staying as long as she did.

So I wonder whether $SPZ has missed the boat now in QLD. The rollout of carpark tech in the state over the last 2 years has been very noticeable.

Not sure.

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