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Great Ideas
The Property Franchise Group is a great play on a robust UK residential market
Thursday 24 Apr 2025The Property Franchise Group (TPFG:AIM) 415p Market cap: £265 million For investors who want to tap into growth in the UK residential market, both in terms of sales and rented accommodation, The Property Franchise Group (TPFG:AIM) makes a very attractive proposition. Whereas housebuilders have been...
Mitie shares hit multi-year high on raised outlook and buyback
Thursday 24 Apr 2025Mitie (MTO) Price: 133p Gain to date: 27% It has been a good year so far for ‘recovery story’ Mitie (MTO ), with the shares up 19% at the time of writing and 27% higher than when we recommended the stock in April 2024 compared with a slight fall in the FTSE 250. We said at the time the new...
Wise is on track to be a big winner in the cross-border payments market
Thursday 24 Apr 2025Wise Group (WISE) 957.5p Market cap: £12.3 billion International payments provider Wise (WISE) , formerly known as Transferwise, has set its sights on handling £1 trillion of cross-border payments annually compared with £118 billion last year. While that might appear ambitious, nine years ago the...
ProCook’s progress continues to please
Thursday 24 Apr 2025ProCook (PROC) 33p Gain to date: 13.8% We originally highlighted ProCook’s (PROC) recovery and re-rating potential at 29p in October 2024, calling out the direct-to-consumer specialist kitchenware brand’s scope for profitable growth under a refreshed strategy. We noted the Lee Tappenden-led company...
Why we’re staying sweet on Treatt
Thursday 17 Apr 2025Treatt (TET) 214p Loss to date: 54% Shares made Treatt (TET) one of our key selections for 2025 at 465p on the basis the extracts-to-ingredients supplier had a recipe for long-term growth and many of the hallmarks of a high-quality company such as a focus on innovation and strong cash generation...
A rare opportunity to buy high-quality antibody specialist Bioventix on the cheap
Thursday 17 Apr 2025Bioventix (BVXP:AIM) £24.11 Market cap: £127.9 million Opportunities to buy high quality businesses at knock-down prices do not come along every day. We believe specialist antibody maker Bioventix (BVXP:AIM) now falls into this camp. Over the last year Bioventix shares have halved, taking the one-...
Supermarket Income REIT is a durable cash machine to own
Thursday 17 Apr 2025Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR) 77.1p Market cap: £959 million Experts reckon we could survive three days or nine meals with empty supermarket shelves before a full-blown societal collapse. That’s how vital supermarkets are to our everyday existence. So, invest in shares of Tesco (TSCO) , Sainsbury’...
How investors can stay invested at an attractive price with Fidelity Index World
Thursday 10 Apr 2025Fidelity Index World (BJS8SJ3) 326.27p Assets: £10.6 billion Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs have triggered a stampede from global equities that to put it mildly, has inflicted short-term pain on investors’ portfolios. Given the US president’s unpredictability, Shares expects markets will...
A 20% profit is on the table at prepared foods maker Bakkavor
Thursday 10 Apr 2025Bakkavor (BAKK) 181.6p Gain to date: 20.7% We urged readers to buy chilled prepared-food maker Bakkavor (BAKK) at 150.5p on 13 March 2025 for its cash generation, defensive attributes and positive trading momentum. Shares spotted scope for a further re-rating of the stock given the private label...
Why you should buy ASML while there is widespread market weakness
Thursday 10 Apr 2025ASML (ASML:AMS) €570 Market cap: €194 billion History tells us that when equities go into freefall investors should buy the market. It’s a point Shares makes more forcefully in our other Great Ideas selection this week, the Fidelity Index World (BJS8SJ3) fund. Pitching the case to buy chip tech...