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Small World: A look at recent goings-on in the UK small-cap market
Thursday 27 Mar 2025We start this month’s round-up with news of not just one but three new faces, all of which joined the market recently. First up is One Health Group (OHGR:AIM) , a provider of NHS-funded medical procedures, which raised £7.8 million before listing costs through a placing of shares at 180p to fund...
Can Boohoo’s reboot save the company’s fast-fashion business?
Thursday 20 Mar 2025They say if you want something doing, ask a busy person, and few people have been busier over the past four months than Dan Finley, head of Manchester-based online fashion firm Boohoo (BOO:AIM) . Since taking over as chief executive at the start of November, Finley has fought off a rearguard action...
Why stock splits can give shares a boost and who might be next
Thursday 20 Mar 2025If you have ever wondered why some companies split their shares into smaller chunks, this article is for you. In essence share splits do not make any meaningful difference to the fundamentals of a company. It is the equivalent of cutting the same pizza into more pieces. This is why there is some...
Top funds to fill your ISA: Our best ideas as the tax year end approaches
Thursday 20 Mar 2025The end of the tax year is now just a couple of weeks away so if you want to make use of any remaining ISA allowance your window to do so is rapidly closing. In this article the Shares team has put its collective heads together to identify a quintet of funds which we think are worthy of inclusion...
Buy now, pay later firm Klarna files for IPO despite volatility
Thursday 20 Mar 2025Buy now, pay later company Klarna has filed its long-awaited IPO (initial public offering), with a $15 billion valuation mooted, according to reports. The Swedish fintech is believed to be aiming to price the New York Stock Exchange IPO in early April and is hoping to raise around $1 billion of...
Markets have hit a rough patch but investors can take some comfort in corporate earnings
Thursday 13 Mar 2025Investors appreciate that nothing goes up in a straight line – occasionally stocks get ahead of themselves and need a period to ‘reset’, which for those looking at the longer term can often be an opportunity to add to their holdings at lower prices. It feels as though we are going through something...
Step into an ISA: how to make the most of the tax efficient wrapper
Thursday 13 Mar 2025Speculation about the fate of the cash ISA allowance has revived the debate about the merits of using a stocks and shares ISA to put your money to work in the financial markets. Regardless of whether the Government follows through on a reported plan to limit contributions to a cash ISA to £4,000,...
Is it wrong to chase performance as an investor?
Thursday 13 Mar 2025One of the basic tenets of investment is not to buy something an asset just because its price has gone up. And yet in the last decade, performance chasing has been a much better strategy than buying investments which have seen their prices fall sharply, a blind bargain-hunting approach which...
BP CEO’s hoped-for return to 2010 market value is a big ask
Thursday 06 Mar 2025Part of being a successful leader of a public company is managing expectations – setting achievable targets which you can tick off and, by doing so, build credibility with the market. The under-pressure boss of oil and gas outfit BP (BP.) Murray Auchincloss will have been aware he needed to make a...
Under water: Catch the below pre-Covid level stocks which can rise to the surface
Thursday 06 Mar 2025Just over five years ago the stock market began to react in earnest to news of the Covid pandemic. The sell-off was short and sharp, with a modest recovery from the lows in the spring followed by sharper gains in November 2020 after AstraZeneca (AZN) made a vaccine breakthrough. However, a large...