StockIceMan's Weekly Stock Pick
Week of
January 2, 2006
| Stock: |
Lightbridge, Inc. |
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| Ticker Symbol: |
LTBG - Nasdaq - Wireless
Communications |
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| Buy: |
8.00 to 8.25 |
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| Sell: |
12.00 |
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Info: |
Lightbridge, Inc. engages
in the development, marketing, and support of
products and services for online businesses and
communications providers worldwide. The company
operates payment processing services, telecom
decisioning services (TDS), intelligent network
services (INS), and instant conferencing
services businesses. Its payment processing
services business consists of a set of Internet
Protocol based payment processing gateway
services, which enable online and other
merchants to authorize, settle, manage risk, and
manage credit card or electronic check
transactions through various interfaces. The TDS
business consists of Lightbridge’s customer
qualification and acquisition, risk management,
and authentication services. Its TDS solutions
provide multiple, remote, and systems access for
workflow management, along with centrally
managed client-specified business policies, and
links to client and third-party systems. The
company’s INS business offers a license-based
software product, which enables prepaid rating
and charging for voice, messaging, and data, as
well as postpaid charging functionality and
calling card services for wireless
telecommunications carriers. Its instant
conferencing services allow users to create and
join reservationless audio conferences instantly
across multiple carrier and service provider
networks. The company also provides consulting
and maintenance services sold primarily in
conjunction with the TDS and INS solutions.
Lightbridge was founded in 1989. It was formerly
known as Credit Technologies, Inc. and changed
its name to Lightbridge, Inc. in 1994. The
company is headquartered in Burlington,
Massachusetts. |
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| Financial Info: |
For the nine months ended
9/30/05, revenues decreased 6% to $81 million.
Net income from continuing operations totaled
$6.1 million, up from $309,000. |
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| Key Ratios: |
Current
Ratio: 3.68, Total Debt/Equity: 0.00, Trailing
P/E: 33.03x, Forward P/E: 25.12x, Price/Book:
1.41, Price/Sales: 1.71. |
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| Share Info: |
There are 26.77
million shares outstanding with 26.60
million shares in the trading
float. Institutions own
approximately 57.90% of the shares outstanding.
There have been 1 insider purchases totaling
15,000 shares and no insider sales in the last six months.
Real-Time SEC
Filings
As of 11/10/2005, there were 40,130 shares short.
Net Institutional Buying: 64,507
shares prior to latest
quarter. |
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| Articles: |
Lightbridge Reaffirms
Guidance for Fourth Quarter 2005 |
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