RE:Jean-René Halde When I spoke to him in January I told him that despite my many critics to Claude concerning his lack of IR and communications, nothing had changed in many years to which he replied that they had a mtg planned in 2 weeks (the board meeting I assume) at which they would discuss potential alternative approaches and quoted Einstein's defintion of insanity as "doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results".
6 weeks later I'm still waiting to see any indication of any change in strategy.... As a matter of fact, never in D-Box's history as I can recall has there been such a long time between business deals announced throuh a formal NR. The last on was on october 24 th 2018, almost 5 months ago ! This is clearly not a sign of any positive change in the strategy, it's actually getting even worse that it already was, and it was quite a challenge to do so considering the total m*ss their comms is in !
As for the quarterly calls, that too I had mentionned many times to Claude, and his answer was that those calls were a lot of work to prepare and since not many analysts were attending them he was reluctant to bring them back. Told him that it was the chicken and egg game - no pertinent info, no interest from analysts, and so on.. To which he agreed, as usual, but did nothing to imprive the situation, that too as usual.
I'm certinaly not holding my shares because of Claude, that I can tell you all.....
Cheers.