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Pets at Home shares pounded after profit warning and CEO departure
Thursday 25 Sep 2025Shares in Pets at Home (PETS) are firmly in the doghouse with investors, down 35% over one year with the latest sharp plunge triggered by a nasty profit warning (18 September) from the UK pet care leader which led to the immediate departure of CEO Lyssa McGowan. Non-executive chair, Ian Burke will...
Apple shares gain following iPhone 17 launch
Thursday 25 Sep 2025Shares in Apple (AAPL:NASDAQ) shares rose more than 3% to $245.50 on 19 September after the California-based colossus unveiled its new iPhone 17. Early sales across the US, Europe and Asia saw strong demand – especially for the Pro and Pro Max models. Analysts’ reaction to the new iPhones have been...
Microlise has built some strong market positions and is targeting continued growth
Thursday 25 Sep 2025The CEO of small cap technology company Microlise (SAAS:AIM) has big ambitions. With this in mind Shares recently took the opportunity to sit down with the man in question Nadeem Raza. Raza has been with the company since 1987 and became chief executive after he led a management buyout in 2008. The...
Shipping shares under pressure as global container rates tumble
Thursday 25 Sep 2025A fall in global shipping rates led to a sharp sell-off in the shares of A.P Moeller-Maersk (MAERSK-B:CPH) , Hapag-Lloyd (HLAG:ETR), DSV (DSV:CPH) and Kuehne + Nagel International (KNIA:ETR) on 18 September, with broad share price falls of between 5% and 9%. The sell-off was sparked by news that...
Airtel Africa is one of the big surprise success stories of 2025
Thursday 18 Sep 2025Not many FTSE 100 stocks have more than doubled year-to-date, and back in January few people would have put money on one of them being mobile phone and internet carrier Airtel Africa (AAF) . The firm had a strong year to March 2025, posting a 21% increase in revenue to just under $5 billion on a...
Category killer Costco needs to deliver the goods next week
Thursday 18 Sep 2025Shares in US warehouse retailer Costco Wholesale (COST:NASDAQ) have struggled to make headway this year, despite the firm posting high single-digit sales growth throughout the summer months as it picks up cash-strapped customers looking to buy in bulk and save money. The issue looks to be valuation...
Hikma Pharmaceuticals shares plumb new 20-month lows
Thursday 18 Sep 2025Multinational pharmaceutical company Hikma Pharmaceuticals (HIK) has seen its shares plumb 20-month lows in recent weeks, taking running losses in 2025 to around 21%, compared with a 23% gain in the FTSE index. The last leg of share price weakness has taken place since 7 August when the generic...
The IPO market is showing signs of life in both the UK and US
Thursday 18 Sep 2025Despite ongoing geopolitical tensions and economic and market uncertainty there have been several signs of life for the IPO market recently both on these shores and across the Atlantic. ‘London remains the fifth largest exchange globally for equity capital raised with over £7.5 billion raised so...
Strategic Equity Capital offers investors their money back via tender offer
Thursday 18 Sep 2025Long before activists such as Saba Capital appeared on the scene, UK investment trusts were already thinking of ways to improve shareholder returns. Take Strategic Equity Capital [SEC) , which since 2020 has been owned by Gresham House and managed by Ken Wotton and his team. Back in February 2022,...
Watches of Switzerland update raises questions over full-year outlook
Thursday 11 Sep 2025It has been a tumultuous 2025 for posh timepiece seller Watches of Switzerland Group (WOSG) , with the shares having lost 40% of their value as of the end of last week. Fears over the impact of hefty (39%) US tariffs on Swiss exports, including high-end watches, have seen the stock price hit its...