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Johnson Service Group looks cheap for the quality of the business
Thursday 18 Sep 2025Johnson Service Group (JSG) 152p Market cap: £600 million We have talked in recent issues about companies with durable competitive advantages, or ‘moats’ as Warren Buffett calls them. One such business is textile and workwear rental firm Johnson Service Group (JSG) , which thanks to its national...
Buy Rightmove for its resilient earnings growth
Thursday 18 Sep 2025Rightmove (RMV) 725.2p Market Cap: £5.6 billion A share price pullback from peaks at Rightmove (RMV) presents a compelling entry point for investors eager to add a high-quality, asset-light and resilient growth business to portfolios. As an advertising platform, the UK’s biggest property portal is...
How Oracle investors can strike a risk reward balance after 82% share price surge
Thursday 18 Sep 2025Oracle (ORCL:NYSE) $302.14 Gain to date: 82% Investors won’t often see a company’s market cap jump $250 billion in a single day, and of all the tech companies to reinvent themselves through the power of AI, Oracle (ORCL:NYSE) may be one of the more surprising. Blowout earnings (9 September) saw...
Why Gear4music is delivering a tune to our liking
Thursday 11 Sep 2025Gear4music (G4M:AIM) Price: 292p Gain to date: 109% Shares urged investors to tune into the exciting recovery story at Gear4music (G4M:AIM) on 15 May, with the shares swapping hands at 140p-a-pop. We highlighted that the online musical instrument and equipment retailer was trading at a discount to...
Morgan Advanced Materials starts a new chapter under CEO Caby
Thursday 11 Sep 2025Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM) 213p Market Cap: £603 million Headquartered in Windsor, Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM) supplies a range of high-performance products to industries as diverse as metal processing, cement making, glass and ceramics, power generation, health care, the aerospace...
Foresight Group has unappreciated growth and yield attractions
Thursday 11 Sep 2025FORESIGHT GROUP (FSG) Price: 458p Market Cap: £518 million Founded in 1984, Foresight Group (FSG) is a leading investment manager in real assets and growth capital for small- and mid-sized private companies. Foresight seeks to provide attractive returns to its diverse institutional and retail...
The Property Franchise Group goes from strength to strength
Thursday 04 Sep 2025The Property Franchise Group (TPFG:AIM) Price: 567p Gain to date: 37% When we recommended multi-brand lettings and estate agency franchising firm The Property Franchise Group (TPFG:AIM) on 24 April, we said it represented a more attractive way to play growth in the UK residential property sector...
A globally diversified portfolio has been the ‘winning formula’ for Murray International
Thursday 04 Sep 2025Murray International (MYI) 295p Market cap: £1.75 billion Investment trust Murray International (MYI) , part of the Aberdeen Asset Management stable, delivered a solid set of half year results on 15 August, cementing itself in the eyes of investors as delivering income and long-term capital growth...
Take advantage of silver playing catch-up to gold with this vehicle
Thursday 04 Sep 2025iShares Physical Silver (SSLN) £28.79 Assets: £1.54 billion Gold is often seen as a useful source of diversification – with a returns profile which is genuinely uncorrelated to that of other asset classes. We have written about gold’s attractions several times this year, including a look at what it...
Why TJX has rallied to new all-time highs
Thursday 28 Aug 2025TJX Companies (TJX:NYSE) $138.27 Gain to date: 12% We urged readers to run the rule over TJX Companies (TJX:NYSE) at $123.4 on 3 July, arguing a share price pause for breath had presented investors with the chance to buy a world-leading discounter and high-quality compounder with years of market...