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Fit and wealthy: six funds to whip portfolios into shape
Thursday 13 Jan 2022Investing requires discipline and patience. Regularly putting money into investments can pay off in the long term, and it’s this habit which can help to build up wealth over time. A lot of people have the willingness to put money into stocks, funds or bonds every month – they simply don’t know...
Greggs is not a buy at this price despite overtaking McDonald’s
Thursday 13 Jan 2022G reggs’ ( GRG ) products might be good value, but its shares are not at the current price of £31.71. While this is a great business, investors need to wait for a cheap entry point before considering the shares. The company has bounced back from the pandemic and enjoyed a very good 2021. Research...
New listing ADF brings touch of Hollywood glamour to the market
Thursday 13 Jan 2022The first new company to list on the junior market this year is also one of the most colourful. Facilities by ADF ( ADF:AIM ) , which raised £18.4 million last week valuing the firm at £38 million, services the multi-billion pound UK film and television industry. Established in the early 1990s, the...
Three ways to beat the professionals
Thursday 13 Jan 2022Do it yourself investors are taking on the professionals in record numbers and many are beating fund manager professionals. The number of people investing their own money has boomed during the pandemic thanks to low-cost platforms giving people easy and cheap access to the stock market. In 2021,...
There are big obstacles to a Boohoo recovery
Thursday 13 Jan 2022Investors in online fast fashion retailer Boohoo ( BOO:AIM ) could be forgiven for being pretty depressed when examining the share price chart. The stock is languishing some 75% below the 420p peak reached in June 2020 as the pandemic drove young fashionistas online. Boohoo has been hit by the...
10 great stocks: Our best ideas for the year ahead
Thursday 23 Dec 2021Accsys Technologies A ccsys ( AXS:AIM ) is a global leader in sustainable wood technology and sells its products into the construction and building materials industries in the UK, Europe, North America and Asia through timber distributors. Its Accoya wood product is both sustainable and high-...
Stock pick for 2022: Jet2
Thursday 23 Dec 2021In the face of a growing threat of widespread lockdowns it might seem counter-intuitive to invest in a travel and holidays operator. But we believe that as 2022 progresses, Jet2 ( JET2:AIM ) will come roaring back on a tide of Omicron recovery. Analysts at broker Jefferies have named it their top...
Stock pick for 2022: Alphabet
Thursday 23 Dec 2021Google-owner Alphabet ( GOOG ) is a giant in internet advertising. It is growing fast with large technological moats and very attractive operating profit margins of 30%. In five years, it has doubled revenues and is forecast to have generated nearly 40% sales growth alone in 2021. Digital...
Why Meta could produce a positive surprise in 2022
Thursday 23 Dec 2021With the end of the year approaching there has been a renewed wave of angst amongst investors as they ponder the 2022 outlook for social media leviathan Meta Platforms – or Facebook as it was known until recently. There are four reasons why investors are increasingly concerned. First the rise of...
Fund managers: stocks that let us down in 2021
Thursday 23 Dec 2021In the second part of a two-part series Shares talks to various fund managers about the stocks that didn’t work out as they expected in 2021. They explain what went wrong and why the market reacted in the way it did. The first part of the series can be read here and reveals 12 fund managers’ top...