Final Results
Oxford Technology 2 VCT PLC
08 May 2007
Preliminary Announcement for Oxford Technology 2 Venture Capital Trust plc for
the year ended 28 February 2007
Chairman's Statement
Investment Portfolio
Despite setbacks, with some investees having been written down in value, the
Directors of Oxford Technology 2 remain pleased with the development of the
portfolio as a whole. Several companies in the portfolio have the potential to
deliver large returns.
Commerce Decisions, in which OT2 owns 5.9%, continues to grow satisfactorily,
with sales from the US beginning to become significant. Inaplex, in which OT2
owns 21%, though small, is now profitable, generating cash, and growing.
Inscentinel was rescued from mothballs by an OT3 shareholder who read the
newsletter and came to the rescue with an investment. It is now receiving
increased interest from a variety of potential customers. The company uses the
exquisitely sensitive olfactory sense of insects to detect trace vapours. The
fact that the insects can be trained to a new scent in minutes (it takes three
months to train a sniffer dog) makes Inscentinel's technology potentially
attractive to the security services. Inscentinel has received a number of
research contracts, but has not yet achieved commercial sales.
Insense has obtained regulatory approval for the first of its family of active
wound-healing dressings, and now has a schedule to introduce these to the
European market. OC Robotics continues to make excellent progress, and made a
profit for the first time on increased sales in the most recent year to December
06. Interest has come mainly from the US, where several customers have
indicated that they will probably place much larger orders for snake-arm robots
in the coming months. Orthogem was on the point of signing a deal, which would
have led to the sale of the company to a US company, when bad data was received
from a particular trial. On investigation the reasons for this were apparent
(all other trials had produced excellent results), but this caused the process
to stall. The hope is that it will revive - the fundamentals remain good - and
if not there are other ways forward, but in the meanwhile the value of the
investment has been written down in the name of prudence.
Plasma Antennas has made a significant technical breakthrough after almost six
years of trying. Only a three-man company, they have one potential customer
interested in purchasing up to 1m aerials at $150 each. But no order yet.
Oxis Energy continues to obtain good results from its prototype Lithium Sulphide
rechargeable batteries. Other companies are making reasonable if not
spectacular progress.
Results for the year
Realised profit on disposal of investments, interest on bank deposits and
investee loans produced gross income of £19,000 (2006: £473,000) in the year.
Retained losses were £142,000 (2006: profit of £298,000) and earnings per share
for the year were (2.37)p (2006: 4.97p) per share.
AGM
Shareholders should note that the AGM for Oxford Technology 2 VCT will be held
on Monday 25th June 2007, at the Magdalen Centre, Oxford Science Park, starting
at 12.00 noon and will include presentations by some of the companies in which
the Oxford Technology VCTs have invested. A formal Notice of AGM has been
included at the back of these Accounts together with a Form of Proxy for those
not attending.
John Jackson
Chairman
4 May 2007
Profit and Loss Account
for the year ended 28 February 2007
Year ended Year ended
28/02/07 28/02/06
£000 £000
Turnover 19 473
Administrative Expenses (161) (156)
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Operating Profit (142) 317
Profit/(loss) on revaluation of - (19)
investments
Profit/(loss) on ordinary activities before taxation (142) 298
Profit/(loss) on ordinary activities after taxation (142) 298
Retained proft/(loss) for the year (142) 298
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Earnings per share (2.37) p 4.97p
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Statement of total recognised gains and losses for the period ended
28 February 2007
£'000
Loss for the financial period (142)
Profit on investments held at fair value 275
Total profit recognised since last annual report 133
Balance sheet at 28 February 2007
28 February 2007 Audited 28 February 2006 Audited
£000 £000 £000 £000
Fixed assets
Investments at fair value 4,042 3,666
Current assets
Debtors & prepayments 3 3
Cash at bank 118 660
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121 663
Creditors: amounts falling due (5) (4)
within one year
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Net current assets/ 116 659
(liabilities)
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Net assets 4,158 4,325
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Capital and reserves
Called up share capital 600 600
Profit and loss account 2,437 2,879
Revaluation reserve 1,121 846
Shareholders' funds 4,158 4,325
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Net asset value per share 69p 72p
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Cash flow statement for the year ended 28 February 2007
2007 2006
Audited Audited
£000 £000
Net cash inflow/(outflow) from (141) 381
operating activities
Capital expenditure and financial investment
Purchase of investments (101) (113)
Disposal / redemption of investments - 250
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Net cash inflow from capital (101) 137
expenditure and financial investment
Dividends paid (300) -
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Increase /(Decrease) in cash (542) 518
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Notes:
1. Basis of preparation
The preliminary announcement has been prepared in accordance with
applicable accounting standards and with the Statement of Recommended
Practice 'Financial statements of investment trust companies' issued in
December 2005. The principal accounting policies are set out in the
company's financial statements for the year ended 28 February 2007.
2. Earnings per Ordinary Share
The calculation of earnings per share is based on the net loss for the
financial period of £142,000 (2006: £298,000 profit) divided by the
weighted average number of ordinary shares of 6,000,000 (2006: 6,000,000)
in issue during the year.
3. General
The financial information set out in this preliminary announcement does not
constitute statutory accounts as defined in section 240 of the Companies
Act 1985. The balance sheet at 28 February 2007 and the profit and loss
account, cash flow statement and associated notes for the year then ended
have been extracted from the company's 2007 statutory financial statements
on which the auditors' opinion is unqualified and does not include any
statement under section 237 of the Companies Act 1985.
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