hi folks,
i would like you to meet and discuss one of my future gorilla top picks :
Lernout&Hauspie Speech and Language products (nasdaq:LHSP)
LHSP is the only pure play and global technology leader in the speech technology market. It is the only company working on all domains of the sector :
1. automated speech recognition
2. natural sounding language
3. text-to-speech software
4. multi-lingual translation (up to 36 languages in 2001)
5. digital speech compression
The company has a lot of award winning software on the consumer market but is mainly focused on the vertical business to business markets. They do business by licensing their core technology and by developing business solutions themselves. In the near future the business solution units will be spinned off to be able to penetrate the market more aggressively. The spine company will continue to improve and license the patented core technology.
The markets include telephony,internet,entertainment,medical,legal and automotive
The company teamed up with microsoft,intel and a lot of notorious partners such as national semiconductor,motorola,ericsson, fox media, unisys,yahoo,aol...
Competitors include mainly smaller companies (nuance, speechworks, dragon...) and business units of blue chips (IBM,philips)each of them focusing on some parts of the global speech business.
The market itself is ready to explode in the coming years and the business strategy of L&H is focused on grabbing market share and being omnipresent by licensing, partnerships and solutions in all submarkets. We're talking about one of the fastest growing very profitable companies in Europe. (revenues expected to surpass 500M$ fiscal year 2000)
The founders of the company Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie took two important initiatives to enhance the development of the market. The first one is the Flanders Language Valley Fund, an investment fund supporting companies developing specific applications and tools based on speech technology and artificial intelligence. The second one is the SAIL foundation focused on creating language valleys all over the globe with the aid of local governments to support companies and education in this sector.
You will find a lot of info by filing through the messages and subsequent links on the yahoo board since november 99 or even earlier - some people on the board like ambiorixridesagain do great research -. Good info also on www.lhsl.com
You will discover a great company with a bright future at a compelling value. Look at the track record (64% average yearly growth) of the swiss investment fund BT&T who invested some more money before the first run-up last week at 52.5$ which I think is a great confirmation of my view on the company.
don't expect too much of a pullback from current 80$ price levels as this stock is gaining momentum at a very high rate these days and you probably won't be able to buy at less than 100$ (pre-split levels) very soon.
btw i am new on this board and trying to give some input
greetings
slwyc |
