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Bullboard - Stock Discussion Forum Sylogist Ltd T.SYZ

Alternate Symbol(s):  SYZLF

Sylogist Ltd. is a Canada-based software company, which at provides mission-critical software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to over two thousand public sector customers globally across the government, nonprofit, and education segments. The Company’s segments include SylogistMission, SylogistEd, SylogistGov, and SylogistSolutions. SylogistMission segment provides mission-critical, modularized... see more

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Comment by Mephistopheles3on Dec 21, 2022 9:11am

RE:debt payment and share repurchases

The press release was a bit of a nothing-berger.  I think they believed that the severabce payment of the $1.2 million in the employment agreement of Dave Elder required disclosure.  Debt ...more  
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Post by Possibleidiot01on Dec 21, 2022 6:59am

debt payment and share repurchases

I can't argue with debt repayment , the company buying back shares at low low prices or insiders buying shares. Huh? On the other hand . can anybody explain "Separately, as per his employment ...more  
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Comment by Mephistopheles3on Dec 14, 2022 5:39am

RE:RE:RE:PenderFund

Look at Bill Wood's LinkedIn profile as well.  He has a history of running these companies well for a couple of years and selling them off. Constellation has a good non-profit arm that might ...more  
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Comment by Mephistopheles3on Dec 14, 2022 5:35am

RE:RE:RE:RE:Sylogist Beats Earnings Expectations and Punished For It

This stock before was sold as an "income investment" and passive income investors are notorious for not reading reports or listening to conference calls.  In this case, the dividend cut ...more  
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Comment by Possibleidiot01on Dec 13, 2022 8:11pm

RE:RE:RE:RE:Sylogist Beats Earnings Expectations and Punished For It

AlwaysLong683 , trying to wrap my head about what you're saying as I'm a pretty simple person who doesn't hold funds. The best I can up with is that there are current holdings and then ...more  
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Comment by AlwaysLong683on Dec 13, 2022 7:40pm

RE:RE:PenderFund

I believe Barr looks for companies he believes are takeout candidates and he's been successful in his past efforts in this regard, so Meph has some good company in suspecting the endgame will be a ...more  
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Comment by AlwaysLong683on Dec 13, 2022 7:23pm

RE:RE:RE:Sylogist Beats Earnings Expectations and Punished For It

Nope. Paper losses show up in the Portfolio section of the financial statements since the fund or client still owns the shares. Funds show the number of units owned, total cost, and total market ...more  
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Comment by AlwaysLong683on Dec 13, 2022 7:23pm

RE:RE:RE:Sylogist Beats Earnings Expectations and Punished For It

You make some good points Meph. Perhaps fund managers / investors / other shareholders were not paying enough attention to the clues management provides re. shift in company strategy. Otherwise the ...more  
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Comment by Possibleidiot01on Dec 13, 2022 4:51pm

RE:Slashing dividend, yet buying in shares? Is this even legal?

Are they not allowed to change corporate direction ? New management looked at the situation and realized maintaining the high payout in a higher interest rate environment was not going to help the ...more  
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Comment by Mephistopheles3on Dec 13, 2022 6:12am

RE:PenderFund

Thanks for that posting mate, I didn't see that one before.  SYZ is actually their largest holding in their small cap fund if you go to their holdings.  Also at the same itme, Seymour ...more  
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Post by prophetoffactzon Dec 12, 2022 10:34pm

PenderFund

From SEDAR: "2.1 State the name and address of the eligible institutional investor. PenderFund Capital Management Ltd. (“PenderFund” or "Pender") 1830 – 1066 West Hastings St ...more  
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Post by janeintorontoon Dec 12, 2022 7:15pm

Slashing dividend, yet buying in shares? Is this even legal?

I don't have it at hand but SYZ's previous communication certainly hinted that there would be no more div increases. That was disappointing.  Then they hit us with a hammer and cut the ...more  
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Comment by Mephistopheles3on Dec 07, 2022 12:02pm

RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:BNN - recommended by David Barr today

No worries mate, appreciate the discussion. You're right in that the disclosures are limited - you have to go a bit on faith and the nuggets that you can pull up from conference calls.  ...more  
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Comment by wellheeledon Dec 06, 2022 9:41pm

RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:BNN - recommended by David Barr today

Thanks for the considered response.  I did a little more digging to confirm a few things. I was hoping for better results.  It's always nice to find gold but this looks more like pyrite. ...more