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Under The Bonnet
Repaired Laird is ripe for recovery
Thursday 14 Dec 2017From the look of its regal offices on London’s Pall Mall you’d never guess at Laird’s ( LRD ) beginnings as a Birkenhead-based ironworks. The company also has one of the more colourful stock market stories, a 193-year history that takes in ship building, railway carriages, car parts, security...
Mears goes where others fear to tread
Thursday 07 Dec 2017Gloucester-headquartered Mears (MER ) operates in some of the most politically sensitive parts of the market: housing and social care. The recent Budget was dominated by measures aimed at addressing the UK’s housing crisis and June’s Grenfell Tower tragedy put the spotlight on the standard and...
Why RELX is one of the best companies in the FTSE 100
Thursday 23 Nov 2017It may be one of the 20 biggest London-listed companies by market cap but unlike other names on this list such as BP ( BP. ) , HSBC ( HSBA ) or Vodafone ( VOD ) , Anglo-Dutch professional information and events company RELX ( REL ) has a very limited public profile. In our view this should not...
Why Hollywood Bowl has the right credentials to thrive
Thursday 16 Nov 2017Bowling is a more robust industry than you might imagine. Market demand is growing at approximately 6% per year even though there is no supply growth, according to stockbroker Peel Hunt. It is an affordable leisure treat, meaning consumers continue to bowl even in tougher economic conditions. While...
On The Beach is a superb growth stock
Thursday 09 Nov 2017Approximately 12m people book short-haul packages every year, a trend on which holiday seller On The Beach ( OTB ) plans to capitalise by investing in technology to drive sales. On The Beach is an online retailer of short-haul beach holidays. Its platform allows people to custom-build their own...
What makes Ramsdens special?
Thursday 02 Nov 2017There have been some spectacular failures in the dog-eat-dog world of pawnbroking including the collapse of Albemarle & Bond three years ago. That hasn’t deterred investors from backing fellow pawnbroker Ramsdens ( RFX:AIM ) whose share price has doubled to 172p since it joined the stock market...
Photo-Me: putting investors in the picture
Thursday 26 Oct 2017One of the stock market’s more unusual investment opportunities, yet highly profitable and awash with growth angles, is Photo-Me International ( PHTM ) . The £644m business operates, sells and services a wide range of instant service equipment. As of 30 April, it had a staggering 47,946 units in...
Are Domino’s Pizza’s sizzling sales a sign of better times to come?
Thursday 19 Oct 2017The market has a love-hate relationship with Domino’s Pizza ( DOM ). After its third quarter trading update, investors and analysts alike are split over whether it is bouncing back from weak sales growth or if it is still struggling. News that Domino’s delivered like-for-like UK sales growth of 8.1...
Copper explorer SolGold confident of ‘world class’ project status
Thursday 12 Oct 2017The boss of copper miner SolGold ( SOLG ) has a message to everyone who has doubted the quality of its assets and management capabilities: ‘Ignore us at your peril as we are coming.’ Chief executive Nick Mather says SolGold is building an integrated exploration and development business ‘that will...
Newly-listed retailer targets five-fold increase in sales
Thursday 05 Oct 2017Given a UK consumer slowdown, the inexorable channel shift to the web and cut-throat competition amongst clothing retailers, investing in a ‘fast fashion’ womenswear outfit engaged in a physical store roll-out might not appeal to every investor. So how has Quiz ( QUIZ:AIM ) managed to capture...