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Take advantage of share price pullback to buy more Softcat stock
Thursday 26 Nov 2020Softcat ( SCT ) £11.53 Gain to date: 20.2% Original entry point: Buy at 959.5p, 1 August 2019 Being rated as a Covid-19 winner did wonders for Softcat’s ( SCT ) share price through most of 2020, breaking through £14 in August. Certainly mass work-from-home would have done the software reseller no...
Strong trading could lead to more generous dividends for Somero
Thursday 26 Nov 2020Somero Enterprises ( SOM:AIM ) 276.86p Gain to date: 6.5% Original entry point: Buy at 260p, 24 September 2020 Shares in construction equipment specialist Somero Enterprises ( SOM:AIM ) have burst to life after a very strong trading update. Business has been very good in recent months, prompting...
Reasons to be more optimistic on AG Barr
Thursday 26 Nov 2020AG Barr ( BAG ) 533p Gain to date: 6.7% Original entry point: Buy at 499.5p, 7 May 2020 Shares in drinks company AG Barr ( BAG ) are now trading ahead of our May entry point thanks to investors starting to look beyond fast-growth tech stocks for investment opportunities. It reassured the market on...
Odyssean Investment Trust sails in with swift 17.4% return
Thursday 26 Nov 2020ODYSSEAN INVESTMENT TRUST ( OIT ) 114.5p Gain to date: 17.4% Original entry point: Buy at 97.5p, 10 September 2020 Our ‘buy’ call on Odyssean Investment Trust ( OIT ) has generated a swift 17.4% return, with the discount to net asset value narrowing from 9.4% to 4.7%, on rising awareness of what...
Oxford Instruments successfully backing the world-changing boffins
Thursday 19 Nov 2020OXFORD INSTRUMENTS ( OXIG ) £19.64 Gain to date: 44.1% Original entry point: Buy at £13.60, 7 November 2019 While the surge in other stocks have grabbed headlines Oxford Instruments ( OXIG ) has relatively quietly gone about its business, paying off brilliantly for investors. The cutting edge...
Homeserve to keep growing through lockdown
Thursday 19 Nov 2020Homeserve ( HSV ) £12.62 Gain to date: 9.3% Original entry point: Buy at £11.45, 16 April 2020 Highlighted as a resilient company which should weather the coronavirus pandemic and get through relatively unscathed, home repairs firm Homeserve ( HSV ) is performing as well as expected as it forecast...
Why Focusrite gains should last beyond lockdown
Thursday 19 Nov 2020Focusrite ( TUNE:AIM ) 924p Gain to date: 34.5% Original entry point: Buy at 687p, 23 July 2020 Our faith in the audio tech firm continues to be rewarded with the company’s full-year results providing the latest catalyst. It posted a 46% drop in profit for the 12 months to 31 August after it wrote...
JPMorgan Japanese rides GDP boost
Thursday 19 Nov 2020JPMORGAN JAPANESE INVESTMENT TRUST ( JFJ ) 688p Gain to Date: 25.6% Original entry point: Buy at 547.92p, 02 July 2020 Our bullish call on JPMorgan Japanese Investment Trust ( JFJ ) is now 25.6% in the money and we remain positive on the capital growth-focused fund, confident that managers Nicholas...
Time to ride the bounce at Burberry
Thursday 19 Nov 2020October’s encouraging return to sales growth suggests luxury goods group Burberry ( BRBY ) is starting to recover from the worst effects of the pandemic. And with Covid-19 vaccine breakthroughs pointing the way to a full reopening of the global economy and a rebound in intercontinental travel,...
Self-help makes Renewi a compelling recovery play
Thursday 19 Nov 2020Unlike a lot of firms, international waste-to-product company Renewi ( RWI ) – which was formed from the merger between Shanks Group and Van Gansewinkel Group in 2017 – has emerged from the pandemic in better shape than it started. First half turnover at its ongoing operations, which exclude the...