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Four great reasons to buy Shell now
Thursday 27 Jan 2022There are many compelling reasons to buy Shell ( RDSB ) right now. Oil and natural gas prices are strong which will boost its earnings. The stock should benefit from the current shift in market dynamics towards ‘value’ stocks. An imminent simplification process is set to make the shares more...
Despite doubling ASML remains one of our top picks
Thursday 27 Jan 2022ASML (ASML:AMS) €592 Gain to date: 123.7% Original entry point: Buy at €264.60, 23 April 2020 It isn’t often we recommend that readers continue to buy shares in a company when they have more than doubled but Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML isn’t like other companies. Recent weakness,...
CentralNic lets its numbers do the talking
Thursday 20 Jan 2022CentralNic ( CNIC:AIM ) 137.7p Loss to date: 3.7% Original entry point: Buy at 143p, 25 November 2021 This week’s trading update (17 January 2022) appears to have re-energised investors in CentralNic ( CNIC:AIM ) after the en masse sell-off in growth stocks since the New Year, with the share price...
FDM has the solution for IT staff shortages
Thursday 20 Jan 2022We know that good staff are hard to come by in many industries at the moment and the squeeze on technology talent predates the pandemic. This backcloth is great for FDM ( FDM ) and its army of IT experts, called ‘Mounties’. Run by the founding husband and wife team of Rod and Sheila Flavell, the...
The UK trust with a history of beating the FTSE 250
Thursday 20 Jan 2022Investors spooked by the recent sell-off in technology stocks need to understand that some parts of the market are still doing very well – this is not an all-sector global market slump. While the US tech-heavy Nasdaq index is down about 6% year to date, we’ve seen the FTSE 350 oil and gas sector...
Time to give up on Currys as an investment
Thursday 20 Jan 2022Currys ( CURY ) 103.3p Gain to date: 19.9% Original entry point: Buy at 129p, 15 July 2021 We’re calling time on our trade on electrical goods retailer Currys ( CURY ) after a string of disappointing news. The company is struggling and the market doesn’t seem convinced the business is going places...
Stick with Frontier Developments despite share price slump
Thursday 20 Jan 2022Frontier Developments ( FDEV:AIM ) £13.30 Loss to date: 41.3% Original entry point: Buy at £22.65, 22 July 2021 Shares in fantasy world video game developer and publisher Frontier Developments ( FDEV:AIM ) are trading below pre-pandemic levels despite demand rising for games during the pandemic and...
Why you should keep buying Marks & Spencer shares
Thursday 20 Jan 2022Marks & Spencer ( MKS ) 221p Gain to date: 23.8% Original entry point: Buy at 178.5p, 2 September 2021 Shares in high street stalwart Marks & Spencer ( MKS ) have further to rise as it continues to demonstrate strong progress in transforming the business. It delivered a better trading...
Cordiant Digital Infrastructure still a buy as progress continues
Thursday 13 Jan 2022Cordiant Digital Infrastructure ( CORD ) 108p Gain to date: 2.9% Original entry point: Buy at 105p on 13 May 2021 Investor and digital specialist in mid-market data centres, mobile communications, broadcast towers, and fibre optic networks, Cordiant Digital Infrastructure ( CORD ) delivered a total...
Play the rotation into value stocks with Temple Bar
Thursday 13 Jan 2022January has seen a rotation in the market, with investors moving out of technology-related stocks and into more value style investments where the story is all about slow to medium growth today, not super levels of growth in the future. The UK market has quite a few stocks that fall under the value...