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Ackroo Inc V.AKR

Alternate Symbol(s):  AKRFF

Ackroo Inc. acquires, integrates and manages gift card, loyalty marketing, payment and point-of-sale solutions used by merchants of all sizes. It develops and sells an online loyalty and rewards platform. Its self-serve, data driven, cloud-based marketing platform helps merchants in-store and online process and manage loyalty, gift card and promotional transactions at the point of sale. Its hybrid management and point-of-sale solutions help manage and optimize the general operations for niche industries: automotive dealers and more. It is focused on helping to consolidate, simplify and improve the merchant marketing, payments and point-of-sale ecosystem for their clients. Its GiftFly is a self-serve eGift Card platform. Its Simpliconnect business offers software as a service, focused on driving client engagement. Its payment ISO affords the ability to resell payment processing solutions to their growing merchant base through some of the payment technology and service providers.


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Comment by HarryBarryon Aug 01, 2022 6:00pm
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RE:Organic growth vs inorganic growth

RE:Organic growth vs inorganic growth Interesting analysis TJ, but it seems to me looking at the cash position that the Inorganic Growth runway is effectively closed off unless we see another captial raise - which would obviously be highly dilutionary at the current share price.

Although the Q2 results are decent on most metrics and Steve is flagging future acquisitions in his commentary, the cash generation just isn't happening at these levels  The cash balance on these results is static at  775k Quarter on Quarter and looking forward Note 15 refers to an agreement to pay consultancy fees of up to 1 M related to the KESM acquisition over the next year in 12 monthly installments.

Add in the rather abrupt resignation of the CFO after less than a year in the job and it would appear that Ackroo's preferred inorganic strategy is effectively stalled.

Can the current Organic Growth move the dial? Well, increased YOY revenue of 14% is certainly encouraging, but I'd be concerned about cost pressures coming home to roost over the next period. Also the attrition rate of 10% is higher than I would have expected - one of the attractions of typical loyalty companies is the stickiness of the subscription revenues.

So, I'd have to conclude the jury remains out on the Organic Growth strategy as well.

Harry
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