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Industry M&A highlights the potential on offer at Intertek
Thursday 27 Feb 2025Intertek (ITRK) £52.30 Market cap: £8.5 billion Apparently, prior to its ultimately unconsummated tie-up talks with SGS (SGSN:SWX) , France’s Bureau Veritas’(BVI:EPA) first choice was to look at UK-listed peer Intertek (ITRK) . In our view investors should take heed of this signal from an industry...
Plans for a state-backed rival continue to rattle Trainline investors and analysts
Thursday 27 Feb 2025Trainline (TRN) 320p Loss to date: 1.6% Since we flagged the stock’s appeal in February last year, shares in online ticketing platform Trainline (TRN) have been up the mountain, peaking at 435p for a paper gain of 36%, and come all the way back down again, leaving us marginally out of pocket. This...
Buy Nexus Infrastructure for its big recovery potential
Thursday 27 Feb 2025Nexus Infrastructure (NEXS:AIM) 134p Market cap: £12.9 million Micro-caps rarely feature as Great Ideas in Shares, but we have made an exception for civil engineering and infrastructure specialist Nexus Infrastructure (NEXS:AIM) which looks to be on the cusp of a change in fortunes. It is only fair...
Affordable housebuilder MJ Gleeson is strongly positioned for a market recovery
Thursday 20 Feb 2025MJ Gleeson (GLE) Price: 495p Market cap: £280 million We originally tipped MJ Gleeson (GLE) at 438p back in May 2023, which wasn’t quite the low but was in time to catch the run all the way up to 650p last October. Today, the shares may not be quite as cheap as they were two years ago, but the...
Why Fevertree continues to fizz with potential
Thursday 20 Feb 2025Fevertree Drinks (FEVR:AIM) 745p Gain to date: 6.6% We urged investors to take a taste of Fevertree Drinks (FEVR:AIM) at 698.5p on 19 December 2024, making the premium mixer drinks firm one of our key 2025 stock selections on the basis the shares were cheap and that negative sentiment towards the...
AB Dynamics is well positioned to drive shareholder value
Thursday 20 Feb 2025AB Dynamics (ABDP:AIM) Price: £18.05 Market Cap: £413 million For those unfamiliar with the story, AB Dynamics (ABDP:AIM) is a leading provider of development, test and verification solutions to the global automotive market. The business was founded in Bradford-on-Avon in 1982 by Tony Best, who...
Hargreaves Services is hard to ignore despite its strong performance
Thursday 13 Feb 2025Hargreaves Services (HSP:AIM) 620p Market cap: £200 million It’s always a test of our conviction if we can recommend a stock just as the shares are touching a 12-month high, but in the case of environmental services, property and materials group Hargreaves Services (HSP:AIM) , its shares are...
BlackRock Frontiers Investment Trust offers a passport to profits
Thursday 13 Feb 2025BlackRock Frontiers Investment Trust (BRFI) 158.5p Market cap: £300 million Investing in frontier markets might seem too risky for some, yet the world’s youngest economies present exciting growth opportunities for adventurous portfolio builders. When high quality, lowly valued companies with their...
This is a great time to invest in the Allianz Technology Trust
Thursday 06 Feb 2025Allianz Technology Trust (ATT) 431p Market cap: £1.63 billion Big technology stocks have dominated growth for more than a decade yet one of the valuable lessons to come out of recent DeepSeek developments is that financial markets are not a one-way street, and key tech stocks don’t always go up...
Futura Medical’s profit warning leaves nagging doubts so exit now
Thursday 06 Feb 2025Futura Medical (FUM:AIM) 16.5p Loss to date: 50% In October 2024, we highlighted sexual health specialist Futura Medical (FUM:AIM) as a great opportunity to get on board as it launched its ED (erectile dysfunction) product Eroxon into the US market through commercial partner Haleon (HLN) . WHAT HAS...