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Boston Scientific has big potential to get back on top in 2021
Thursday 26 Nov 2020Medical science has come on leaps and bounds over the decades, yet heart disease and related conditions continue to kill thousands every year. More than a quarter of all deaths in Britain are from heart and circulatory diseases, according to data from the British Heart Foundation, or nearly 170,000...
Buy this trust to access cut-price quality names
Thursday 26 Nov 2020Many high-quality companies have recently been shunned by investors in favour of beaten-down value stocks amid coronavirus vaccine hopes. That presents an opportunity to be contrarian and we’ve spotted a way to take advantage of such price weakness. Investors have started to realise they don’t need...
Take advantage of share price pullback to buy more Softcat stock
Thursday 26 Nov 2020Softcat ( SCT ) £11.53 Gain to date: 20.2% Original entry point: Buy at 959.5p, 1 August 2019 Being rated as a Covid-19 winner did wonders for Softcat’s ( SCT ) share price through most of 2020, breaking through £14 in August. Certainly mass work-from-home would have done the software reseller no...
Strong trading could lead to more generous dividends for Somero
Thursday 26 Nov 2020Somero Enterprises ( SOM:AIM ) 276.86p Gain to date: 6.5% Original entry point: Buy at 260p, 24 September 2020 Shares in construction equipment specialist Somero Enterprises ( SOM:AIM ) have burst to life after a very strong trading update. Business has been very good in recent months, prompting...
Reasons to be more optimistic on AG Barr
Thursday 26 Nov 2020AG Barr ( BAG ) 533p Gain to date: 6.7% Original entry point: Buy at 499.5p, 7 May 2020 Shares in drinks company AG Barr ( BAG ) are now trading ahead of our May entry point thanks to investors starting to look beyond fast-growth tech stocks for investment opportunities. It reassured the market on...
Odyssean Investment Trust sails in with swift 17.4% return
Thursday 26 Nov 2020ODYSSEAN INVESTMENT TRUST ( OIT ) 114.5p Gain to date: 17.4% Original entry point: Buy at 97.5p, 10 September 2020 Our ‘buy’ call on Odyssean Investment Trust ( OIT ) has generated a swift 17.4% return, with the discount to net asset value narrowing from 9.4% to 4.7%, on rising awareness of what...
Oxford Instruments successfully backing the world-changing boffins
Thursday 19 Nov 2020OXFORD INSTRUMENTS ( OXIG ) £19.64 Gain to date: 44.1% Original entry point: Buy at £13.60, 7 November 2019 While the surge in other stocks have grabbed headlines Oxford Instruments ( OXIG ) has relatively quietly gone about its business, paying off brilliantly for investors. The cutting edge...
Homeserve to keep growing through lockdown
Thursday 19 Nov 2020Homeserve ( HSV ) £12.62 Gain to date: 9.3% Original entry point: Buy at £11.45, 16 April 2020 Highlighted as a resilient company which should weather the coronavirus pandemic and get through relatively unscathed, home repairs firm Homeserve ( HSV ) is performing as well as expected as it forecast...
Why Focusrite gains should last beyond lockdown
Thursday 19 Nov 2020Focusrite ( TUNE:AIM ) 924p Gain to date: 34.5% Original entry point: Buy at 687p, 23 July 2020 Our faith in the audio tech firm continues to be rewarded with the company’s full-year results providing the latest catalyst. It posted a 46% drop in profit for the 12 months to 31 August after it wrote...
JPMorgan Japanese rides GDP boost
Thursday 19 Nov 2020JPMORGAN JAPANESE INVESTMENT TRUST ( JFJ ) 688p Gain to Date: 25.6% Original entry point: Buy at 547.92p, 02 July 2020 Our bullish call on JPMorgan Japanese Investment Trust ( JFJ ) is now 25.6% in the money and we remain positive on the capital growth-focused fund, confident that managers Nicholas...