Venture Life Share Price (VLG)

Share Name	Share Symbol	Market	Type	Share ISIN	Share Description
Venture Life	LSE:VLG	London	Ordinary Share	GB00BFPM8908	ORD 0.3P

	Price Change	% Change	Share Price	Shares Traded	Last Trade
	-0.40p	-0.84%	47.50p	7,000	15:24:16

Bid Price		Offer Price	High Price	Low Price	Open Price
45.00p		50.00p	47.90p	47.50p	47.90p

Industry Sector	Turnover (m)	Profit (m)	EPS - Basic	PE Ratio	Market Cap (m)
Health Care Equipment & Services	16.05	0.06	-1.00		39.8

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16/8/2018	12:23	ALNC	Venture Life Predicts 6% Year-On-Year Rise In First Half Revenue
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16/8/2018	07:00	UKREG	Venture Life Group PLC Trading update & notice of interim results
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08/8/2018	14:59	ALNC	Livingbridge Holds 8% Stake In Venture Life After Deal (ALLISS)
08/8/2018	14:15	UKREG	Venture Life Group PLC Holding(s) in Company
08/8/2018	07:01	UKREG	Venture Life Group PLC Completion of Placing and Acquisition
07/8/2018	17:11	ALNC	Ennismore Fund Builds 7.5% Holding In Venture Life (ALLISS)
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19/9/2018 09:20	Venture Life Daily Update: Venture Life is listed in the Health Care Equipment & Services sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker VLG. The last closing price for Venture Life was 47.90p. Venture Life has a 4 week average price of 47.50p and a 12 week average price of 39.50p. The 1 year high share price is 65.50p while the 1 year low share price is currently 38.50p. There are currently 83,712,106 shares in issue and the average daily traded volume is 50,671 shares. The market capitalisation of Venture Life is £39,763,250.35. Read Full Thread Reply
14/9/2018 14:08	homebrewruss: Mention of ABC here: hTTps://www.investorschampion.com/channel/blog/its-reporting-season.and-the-accounting-shenanigans-are-coming-thick-and-fa It’s reporting season….and the accounting shenanigans are coming thick and fast! 'The share price of Abcam (AIM:ABC), a global leader in the supply of life science research tools and one of AIM’s largest companies, took a tumble after it issued results for the year ending June 2018. While results were broadly in-line with expectations, with the shares trading at a mighty valuation, it didn’t take much to spook investors and the huge cost of new IT systems is enough to spook anyone! Total capitalised expenditure to date in respect of their new Oracle Cloud ERP programme amounted to £33.6m. It’s worth bearing in mind that, despite a market capitalisation approaching £3bn, this is still a relatively small business in real terms with revenues only £233m and pre-tax profit £69m. In 2018/19 they plan to implement the finance and certain other modules of this Oracle system at an estimated cost of approximately £16m. Beyond 2018/19 they we will implement further new Oracle modules as well as investing further in those already implemented. Despite IT spend being a regular feature of this or any other growing business and a meaningful cash cost to shareholders ‘Adjusting items’ in the financial statements include £6.1m for ‘System and process improvement costs.’ We can’t see how this is justified. Anyway, US listed software giant Oracle (ORCL) must be delighted and with its business model having a knack of extracting huge sums of money out of its customers over a long period; you start to see the appeal of the relatively modestly rated Oracle shares! We don’t want to be too harsh on Abcam as we are big fans of this business and it was good to see the Non-Executive Directors take advantage of the share price weakness following the results, subsequently acquiring a material number of shares - we look forward to a similar commitment from the Executive Directors!' Read Full Thread Follow Reply
10/9/2018 09:33	dacian: This from Mr Scott: Mr Scott made a good point yest on Stockopedia when he discussed FDEV's results, I think it's worth reflecting on it for a bit, he said it before and there will always be trading stock in the market but it's getting increasingly volatile. DPH another example. "I see that the share price has almost halved from its peak in June. To be fair, lots of highly rated growth companies have had similar sell-offs this summer. There are a lot of punters following momentum-based strategies, and using stop-losses right now. This exacerbates volatility. It has probably also stretched valuations more than usual on the upside (since many buyers didn't care about valuation, as long as the price kept going up). The problem comes when all those people using the same momentum strategy decide to sell - they're all trying to sell at the same time, creating big moves downwards from the peak. I'm seeing a lot of this at the moment, with loads of shares. Selectively, it's creating some nice buying opportunities. We have to be so careful though, not to catch falling knives, where the share price fall is happening for a good reason (which may not always be apparent until later)" Read Full Thread Follow Reply
07/9/2018 09:38	dacian: I agree, the small caps especially the very small ones are the private investors' edge against the big boyz. Even if they do manage to buy in through a placing or similar, they can't sell out as quickly as we can. Mr Scott made a good point yest on Stockopedia when he discussed FDEV's results, I think it's worth reflecting on it for a bit, he said it before and there will always be trading stock in the market but it's getting increasingly volatile. DPH another example. "I see that the share price has almost halved from its peak in June. To be fair, lots of highly rated growth companies have had similar sell-offs this summer. There are a lot of punters following momentum-based strategies, and using stop-losses right now. This exacerbates volatility. It has probably also stretched valuations more than usual on the upside (since many buyers didn't care about valuation, as long as the price kept going up). The problem comes when all those people using the same momentum strategy decide to sell - they're all trying to sell at the same time, creating big moves downwards from the peak. I'm seeing a lot of this at the moment, with loads of shares. Selectively, it's creating some nice buying opportunities. We have to be so careful though, not to catch falling knives, where the share price fall is happening for a good reason (which may not always be apparent until later)". Read Full Thread Follow Reply
02/6/2018 18:22	janeann: red........ ' I appreciate that there is momentum based on transaction volume, but that is historic. How does that predict the future movement?' bamboo might answer this but as I see it; and I have been mulling the issue for some while as I started as a non believer and am now starting to see why it might work ... Vast numbers of buys and sells dictate the movement of share prices. that is replicated across different companies and over time. and the past data can then be analysed to determine if certain trends (in buys and sells and share price movements) e.g and head and shoulders ... that have occurred are good predictors of certain share price movements that have also occurred. One can then apply that logic to look for movements that appear to be correlated with certain prior patterns to current share price movements with a view to identifying what the next move might be. happy to be shot down but that's how I see it and tried to put it in laymans terms. Ps (it perhaps also explains why goldman sachs were offering enormous sums to O and C mathematics undergrads as holiday jobs) Read Full Thread Follow Reply
01/2/2018 06:18	apad: cbootle We have a Comparison exercise (not a 'competition') on this board. If you want to let us have your top 5 holdings at the turn of the year we can add you to the list. You will need to post a brief precis of the shares as well. As below. apad Multibagger ARC Been in for several years ago now. Stickiness of blue chip customers (only 2 customer losses over 10 years apparently), strong cash generation rate, no debt, hold about £2.6m cash, and now dividend paying (progressive policy indicated). New products in trials at 5 Tier 1 banks and participant in Symphony and OpenMAMA forums which could widen the addressable market. Very conservative, low key management and accounting style - the typical boring but solid company with high barriers to entry. Management seem quietly confident. IDEA Big UK player in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) software space with several high profile customers across health, banking, rail, air transportation etc. About 160 NHS Trusts and all the Scottish NHS Trusts use them. Also 8 out of top 10 accounting groups use them.Growing upwards of 20%+ year on year. Solid track record of integrating acquisitions, paying down manageable debt and dividend paying. IQE Strong IP portfolio, proven tech capability and strong backing from Welsh government, massive expansion of manufacturing capacity in train and oversubscribed £100m recent placing. Technology has high barriers to entry and long lead times for competitors to try and catch up. I expect it to be acquired for the tech/IP in due course.I missed the ARM story, but won't miss this one. High PE stock - for cutting edge tech PE is the wrong metric, though not sure which metric ever makes sense. LTG Very strong track record of Andrew Brode (in particular) and Jonathan Satchell who own about 30-40% of the company. Strong suite of customisable products, complementary strategic acquisitions and excellent geographic spread. High US income through Rustici acquisition (may benefit from Trump's tax reforms). Online/elearning market can only get bigger. Successful ongoing delivery of a massive UK civil service contract (in conjunction with KPMG) could be a reference customer for further Whitehall contracts given Brexit. Serviceable debt and dividend paying. Intention to develop into a 100 million business (having upped target from a 50 million business). CYAN Looks like at the threshold of a turnaround in fortunes with smart metering space (electricity, gas, water and now IoT) developing at a rapid pace across the world. About $100m purchase orders signed over the last year or so across a number of countries - Sweden,UK, Iran, Bangladesh, India. Works with local/in country partners who do the implementation and CYAN provides the technology/communication solutions and is partnering a number of meter manufacturers, as the tech is meter agnostic. Excellent suite of communication technologies which are able to address different economic market segments, local terrain and built up area issues and at differing points of the technology maturity cycle. Expects to get at least £25m from UK "not spot coverage" in UK smart meter rollout. Moving from a hardware to a recurrent software, multi year, per meter revenue model (not very different from ARM model broadly speaking). John Cronin, Chairman has a good track record of several successful exits/sell ons (about £650m according to company website). Directors including JC took one year salaries in equity...and have bought the dips/propped up the share price. redartbmud Arc Maiden dividend announced, which indicates that the business is maturing as a strong business generating good cash returns. Plenty of scope for it’s products in the market. Vanl Undemanding rating and an active shareholder who is the former holder. He will keep the management honest and certainly on their toes to outperform. Outside chance of a takeover. Ltg Expect more activity. The statement below says it all. When the AIM-listed firm entered the market in 2013 it sought to achieve run-rate revenues of £50m and EBITDA margins of 20% by the end of 2018, but Learning Technologies' 2017 interim results revealed that the company had hit targets twelve months ahead of schedule. However, as part of Tuesday's event, the e-learning group outlined a plan focused on doubling run-rate revenues to £100m with an EBITDA in excess of £25m by the end of 2020. Learning Technologies said it planned to achieve the new objectives through a combination of strong organic growth paired with strategic acquisitions that complemented its current business model. Rpc operating in a fragmented market, ripe for further consolidation. The tintins marked it down on the number of acquisitions in the year. I think that they are wrong, and expect more activity and further organic and acquisition based growth in 2018. Cost savings along the line. Rws – Unfortunately keeps issuing paper, but continuing to build a niche business in a growing market. The purchase of Moravia is transformational. Mattjos AAZ Low cost of production & AISC, valued at 25% of the CAPEX to date on the Gedabek plant & equipment. Sat on a huge, mainly unexplored, acreage although previous Russian data (as given in the IPO docs) gives a strong indication what is really present. New Director of Geology (Stephen Westhead ex. Polyus) is really starting to make his mark and has already found the previously unknown Ugur deposit right on their doorstep. The CEO has leant his own cash to the company on two occasions rather than dilute the precious equity - a rare event for an AIM miner. NED Prof. John Monhemius is one of the worlds leading authorities on pm processing techniques & has been instrumental in their SART plant and then how to process the complex ore using combination of Agitation then Flotation or, Flotation then Agitation. They have a surplus of both oxide and sulphide ore now stacked at Gedabek in case of any harsh winter weather this year. The underground exploration activities at Gedabek this winter and the fan drilling scheduled for early 2018 are likely to prove the catalysts for a big increase in JORC resources. Meanwhile, the healthy cashflow keeps reducing the debt (on plan). News over the next 3 months needs to be watched very closely. Against all this, the state mining entity AZERGOLD has a gold mine close by but lacks the technical skills to develop it effectively .. A bid for the entirety of AAZ is a possibility and at even 3x current price is dirt cheap STAR It has some persuasive tracking technology and I believe will reach a point in 2018 where recurring revenues cover their costs. The business model looks very appealing & so too the potential for rapid scale-up. STCM It is simply far too cheap and looks a perfect takeover target in the acquisitive global cement market. A unique dry-line operation in Kaz. SYM It is a long term serial underperformer but, now has a strong major investor (Somerston) with a seat on the board and they are turning this company from a lifestyle operation into a solid business. Looks likely to pay a maiden divi next year. Strong marketing/branding and big distribution pipeline in place to push new products. Strong Bed'n'Isa activity by Directors this year. WTI It is probably the riskiest one but, Orion seem strongly persuaded of the opportunity and the recent acquisition of Katumba from a reluctant but forced seller (Intrepid Mines) looks transformational. Highly leveraged to copper price so a mining play on EV adoption. Gsbmba99 Arcontech (ARC) for reasons Janeann mentioned. Shares are good value. They get paid in advance. Lots of cash on the balance sheet. Have already stated they have enough cash so, in absence of any M&A, could show interesting dividend growth. New product currently in trials. Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB1) 2H17 gross mortgage lending has been up high single digits YoY and UKFinance/Council of Mortgage Lenders recently upgraded 2017 and 2018 forecasts (albeit modestly). New technology being introduced to reduce paperwork which should hopefully benefit adviser productivity. Opening up of product switch market (new mortgage with same lender) means market opportunity £90bn (or +30%) larger than 18 months ago. New direct to consumer advertising commences in 2018. Despite recent senior hires and advertising, no change to forecasts whereas most companies would have reduced as a result of "investing" for growth. Makes me think things are going a bit better than previously planned. Liontrust (LIO) They bought the sustainable investments business from Alliance Trust in April. They hired a new head of distribution about a year ago. They've hired a fixed income manager and strategist who, judging by the Kames funds on Trustnet that changed manager the day before LIO announced their arrival, used to co-manage Kames Strategic Global Bond ($638 AuM according to Trustnet), Kames Strategic Bond (£320m), Kames High Yield Bond (£908m) and Kames Sterling Corporate Bond (£604m). If 10% of his prior clients follow him, could lead to nice amount of net new money. Also, Reade Griffith (Polygon) owns 10%. Jarvis Securities (JIM) I am hoping for EPS growth attractively into double digits for duration of interest rate raising cycle. See my previous comments on thread. Premier Asset Management (PAM) It's a retail focused asset manager that distributes almost exclusively through IFAs. They have a bit of a niche in the "income" category and within that in multi-asset funds. From the admission document (pdf page 17): "The IA has identified multi-asset and income funds as long term beneficiaries of changes in the UK pensions and retirement market and AUM invested in the multi-asset market in the UK has grown by a CAGR of 20.2 per cent. over the past 10 years." For reference, 1.202^10-1=529%. Every quarter since fiscal Q313 has seen positive net new money. The distribution platform is powerful with >£500m of gross sales in each of last four quarters. Unfortunately, net sales over that period "only" £746m. The fact that a surprisingly large proportion of their customers are in pre-RDR funds means that revenue and costs are distorted. Net management fee (after payment of trail commission): £27.6m (FY15), £33.3m (FY16), £40.9m (FY17). Costs (excl. trail commission): £20m (FY15), £22.8m (FY16), £26.6m (FY17). Op margin (% net revenue excl trail commission): 27.5% (FY15), 31.5% (FY16), 35% (FY17). That's 750bps of additional margin created through net revenue rising faster than net costs. Because it's retail oriented, I can track progress through the fund fact sheets (which represent 94% of corporate AuM). AuM increased at 13/23 funds in Jun, 19/24 in Jul, 17/23 in Aug, 16/23 in Sep, 22/23 in Oct and 16/23 in Nov despite most of the funds paying dividends very regularly (sometimes monthly). AuM movement: -£8.4m (Jun), £120.1m (Jul), £75.6m (Aug), £68.5m (Sep), £181.3m (Oct) and £48.5m (Nov). The multi-asset series of funds were £2.884bn as at May and were £3.225bn as at Nov. Valuation not nearly as cheap as it was so return may be down to EPS growth. Janeann ACSO Global ticketing specialist providing technology to improve customer experience primarily in leisure attractions theme parks etc. Leader in its field. Started out to avoid queueing at theme parks and developed since. Large global customer base. Growing by both expansion and acquisition, and growth expected to continue. ARC Is a small niche player and provides solutions to managing real time market data - both software and consultancy. Number of very high profile clients with recurring revenue streams. Recently started paying dividends. LTG is a dividend paying company providing digital learning solutions and interactive media programmes to a broad range of clients including government. Aiming to grow by both broadening its range of products and clients across a broader geographic range as well as via acquisition. PRSM Software company specialising and leading the field in development of robotic process automation particularly of more routing back office tasks enabling the freeing up staff to do more productive tasks. Globally active in events and with a diverse range of high profile partners prsm is at the forefront of the developing technology. ZTF Specialist manufacturer of plastic foam for a very broad and diverse range of industries including sports, automotive & construction. Many specialist uses and complex production process. Recent deal with Nike. Expanded production base in China now coming onstream and plans to expand in UK also. Dividend payer. Attrader Burford Capital They provide finance for litigations which is a market in flux. Historically, they have been generating 25% IRR on their investments. Litigation business is uncorrelated with rest of economy which should reduce risk in portfolio. Ample room to compound capital as market is still growing. Credit: Hydrus IG Index UK Based spread betting operator with exceptional customer service. They were hit by potential new regulations however they are diversifying into traditional brokerage businesses (SIPP, ISAs). That should improve stickiness of revenues and reduce necessity to constantly recruit new clients. High returns on capital, good management. Like the CEO. Credit: APAD Amadeus Spanish market leader in processing travel transactions. More people traveling due to cheap flights, growing middle class and wealth generation in Asia. Sticky revenues with potential to grow at 6% in line with market growth. Credit: Terry Smith) AppleGreen Irish forecourt retailer acquiring petrol stations from oil majors exiting the business. They refurbish forecourts, rebrand them, add food & cloth retailing. Forecourt retailing is high margin business as customers would pay more for buying snacks in the middle of motorway. Management owns a decent stake. Credit: Wexboy) MSAB-B Swedish mobile forensics software provider competing in a niche market with only few other companies. Their competitive edge is number of devices supported by their software. Law enforcement agencies need a reliable platform to quickly extract data from suspect device and decipher messages. 50+% recurring revenues. Mobile forensics market is growing at a decent rate. Lauders HOC Gold and silver miner with South American operations. FTSE 250 and pays a dividend. Reducing debt and as precious metal prices increase so do their profits. If 2018 is financially rocky as some say it will be then HOC should do well. My largest holding by a mile. SDX "Roulette wheel" to some but my 2nd largest holding and I think they will do well in 2018. Egyptian and Moroccan operations of mainly gas. Current drilling has been on a roll & coming up roses. The share-price is under-performing and hopefully will be rerated in 2018. MSLH Been a good year for this company that offers natural stone and concrete hard landscaping products, supplying the construction, home improvement and landscape markets. They are also into street furniture that protects public from some of the terror events we have witnessed over recent years. I believe they will continue to do well and acquire select businesses to expand their offerings. Current offer: 437.30p ITV Think everyone knows about this broadcaster. Been weak lately but the recent Disney/Time Warner news among other things has shifted momentum a bit and a new CEO next year may all mean a better year for the company. Pays dividends and special dividends. Always a chance of a bid/merger with them too. Been mentioned countless times in the past and no doubt will continue. Current offer: 166p BVXP No need to really comment on them here. Everyone pretty much knows the deal and why they are a great BTFD opportunity if the chance ever comes. Current offer: 2550p APAD FEVR a new international brand, creative management, minimal costs, pays a divi, needs to succeed in the US) BOO stunning CEO combination, huge barriers to entry, disruptive, buy direct from the brand not through an on-line shop, big spend but not difficult, no negatives ABC products gain value the more they are used, becoming the gorilla on the block but high costs developing their systems - need to prove success in developing software and distribution centres) BVXP niche technology, hard to compete with, very low costs, losing an income stream, needs to succeed with Siemens collaboration TSTL novel, low cost technology in an important area, international expansion is important, will probably be sold on in a year or two if it continues to be successful thelongandtheshortandthetall Googl (class A): revenue and profit growing growing at approximately 25% per year. Basically no debt. Huge cash reserves - i expect a tax ease on the repatriation of foreign held currency plus the US tax cut will benefit profits. There are too many strings to googles bow to list here. Heres just a couple: Waymo is the most advanced in the driverless car market, youtube, 90% of mobiles run on android etc. Also there is the potential for spin offs. Facebook: basically no debt. Vertual monopoly - Throwing off cash. Regular acquisitions. Super targetted advertising that advertisers will pay a lot for. Slowing user growth but they are now in the monitisation stage. Will benefit from us tax cut and possible repatriation of foreign reserves. Idp: small cosmetics and life science business. Very low debt. Sp way under recent placing. Growing list of brands. All products manufactured by third paries - no need for expensive plant or property. Products are advertised via social media. They are very inventive with their product designs. Usually combining two or three products in one. Ie fake tan and cellulite reducing effects, skin whitening cream with spf50 Caution there is a snake oil feeling that is growing in me. SOM: small company manufacturing industrial concrete levelling machines. Basically no debt and growing cash reserves. World leader in this very niche part of the construction industry. I can see Somero being bought by one of the big boys one day. Should also benefit from us tax cut. Does require continued world commercial construction projects. Cake: slow but steady growing cafe/bakery. Clear plan for more store roll outs - funded internally. Basically no debt and growing cash reserves. No need for huge capital outlays. Valhamos DOTD Dotmailer product has a strong position with ecommerce platforms such as Magento. Growing international presence in US and Far East and recent acquisition enables move to omni-channel communication and customer engagement including live chat and social media. NEXS Recent IPO (July 2017), infrastructure services to housebuilding and commercial sectors, looks set to benefit from government commitment to build 300k houses p.a. Company has 2 division; Tamdown infrastructure and civil engineering services (customers 9 of top 10 largest UK housebuilders) and TriConnex designs, installs, connects utility networks (started in 2011 has shown profit CAGR of 70% since 2013) D4T4 Growth driver is Customer experience (CX) /Customer data platform software through the Celebrus offering along with necessity to meet GPRD requirements next year. Contracts delays impacted recent interims (and share price accordingly) but recent director purchases support company claims to be still on course to meet full year targets. CAKE Patisserie is almost metronomic in its growth and profit performance with increase in ROIC over the years. 199 outlets and targeting 20 new stores this current year each one expected to be profitable from day one with average payback under 2 years. SGP Recent launch of Superdry 5.0 Global Digital Brand strategy marks the next chapter in the company’s development with growth in ecommerce and continued roll-out and investment in US and China. Haywards26 REDS – Software Solutions and Smart Building systems integrators, providing design, implementation of networks, managed services. Contract wins in 2017 with big name clients, which has confirmed the business traction being gained. BHRD – a digital marketing group including marketing, technology and e-commerce businesses. Headed by experienced marketing Chairman (Peter Scott ). Profitable with strong growth potential. Business appears to be gaining traction cross selling between various group entities with new large name client wins of late. Buy and build strategy. BLVN – board removed in 2017 and replaced by the largest shareholder (COC), who have removed the executive directors and turned the company into a holding entity, with two oil projects. Both pre commercialisation, but ETINDE (Cameroon) potentially a very significant discovery. Partnered with New Age/Lukoil further drilling to occur in 2018 to sure up the resource. I expect COC to at this point then to sell the remaining ETINDE asset and return cash to shareholders. Market cap underpinned by Cash on balance sheet. SRC – a relatively new entity. Operates new and existing construction material assets in places where opportunity is greatest. Main asset is a quarry owned in Guernsey and has the market share supplying materials from the quarry. In addition there has been two recent concrete producers acquired in 2017. Experienced board. Buy and build strategy. Profitable and expect further significant growth . Market cap underpinned by Quarry asset. *RHL – is an engineering business offering design, manufacture, installation, maintenance and decommissioning services, specializing in the nuclear sector. They have had a tough few years due to an Energy to Waste construction contract nightmare. Following this the business has evolved its offering from the more complex and risky construction aspect to nuclear related manufacturing and decommissioning services. 3 of my 2018 entries have recently issued trading updates to the market. 2 good and 1 not so good Good REDS (Smart building technology and network infrastructure) - Trading in line with management expectations following a strong second half and good contract win traction. Share price up 12% on the news to £1.05. Current broker target £2.20. SRC (Quarry and construction materials) buy and build model aiming to be the next Breedon Group - Trading in line with management expectations with the acquisitions structurally and operationally embedded. 2018 is expected to be another transformational year. Very much under the PI radar currently. Share price reduced slightly to £0.403. Current broker target £1.05. Bad BHRD (Digital Marketing Services Group) reported the late deferral of several contracts hitting the bottom line in 2017, although these come into play in the current 2018 year. Management reshuffle, main man (Peter Scott - non exec chairman) has moved into Exec CEO role to run the Group and integrate the recent acquisitions in order to maximize cross selling and integration savings. I still have confidence that traction in performance will come, it is just disappointingly taking longer than initially expected. Current share price has reduced to £2.00. Current broker target of £5.00. Iomax99 Hold all five, final two are LTBH, and have held for quite some time. Part time investor/serial lurker. MGP - leader in its field IT system for radiologists), forecast CARG of 20% for next 3/4 years, with gross margins not far short of 50%. FUTR - Physical/digital specialist publishing, significantly transformed over last couple of years to focus on maximising overall online proposition. BUR - Market leader in litigation finance, strong track record, industry still at an early stage. HL. - Leading fintech in UK online platform space, ambitious plans for further expansion, yet barely scratching the surface of target UK savings market. CVSG - Leading veterinary consolidator, still only have c 14% of UK market (strong acquisition pipeline), strong cross selling of services/continuing to add new/complementary services/ expanding overseas, recent correction overdone. Piedro TSTL - makes hospital disinfectants based on chlorine dioxide. Rest of world sales now approaching 50% of total. Takeover red herring. SRT - involved in marine domain awareness technology. Produce their own equipment and sell complete systems. Very jam tomorrow company waiting for big contracts to arrive so may not make it into the 2019 pick OCN - 75% Brazilian maritime and 25% Investment portfolio. Originally 50:50 the Brazilian part showing all the growth having 2 container terminals and 70 odd tugboats CAM - Principal business is tea followed by nuts and avocados. Seems to have passed through a phase of diworsification getting involved in engineering and banking which are gradually being sold off. MGNS - construction company with a difference. Passed through a period of bad contracts but now more careful preferring many small contracts rather than going for the big one. wskill ISAT leader in maritime sat coms now doing same in airplanes ,equipment best in class fallen back due to investment required to launch additional sats 12 months from now it will have completed most of the expenditures and be receiving income from investment. IGG Also best provider of spread betting and now branching into stockbroking ,with Barclays fiasco will soon pick up steam excellent divi. FLX cyber protection with own software just won a new contract after spending a week in DD having its software hacked it won the contract against stiff competition. HUM gold miner just had its first gold pour full production 130k Oz per year. IDP cosmetics brand just building a portfolio of products. dacian XLM - at the core, they trawl the internet for gamblers and pass them on to casino operators who in turn reward xlm with a cut from the profits. XPD - they're trucking uk frock to eastern Europe and back. A buy and build in a fragmented sector. And they're not bloody truckers, they call themselves freight forwarders ( fancy words for truckers, really :-). FLTA - they're cleaning deep frying oil, in restaurants. Yikes, dirty work. And I can't believe that people do actually pay for that. NTQ - tiny engineer supplying drilling equipment to US shale. Enterprise value (market cap minus cash) circa £3 mil. PCIP - not quite sure what they're up to, something to do with protecting customers' details when making a payment over the phone. RP19 VLE - A conservatively ran company which buys struggling companies, turns them around and sells them on (think Melrose). Share price largely discounts realistic valuations for VLE's investments. Of the current portfolio, Impetus Automotive would seem to offer the most promise. RFX - Northern company with 4 key business segments - foreign currency exchange, pawnbroking loans, buying and selling precious metals and retailing second hand and new jewellery. 120 stores with targeted expansion plans and a small but growing online presence. ASH - Government policy has meant that there have been historic barriers to the company developing its considerable pipeline in the development of extra care and supported living provision. Recent joint venture with Morgan Sindall should unlock the delivery of this pipeline. ASH are also developing a presence in the modular building sector (houses, education facilities, site offices, health care etc) which I view as a growth area (Morgan Sindall also operate in this space). DRV - Company providing engineering and construction consultancy services (planning, project management, dispute resolution etc). Acquired badly and diversified too much. However, would now seem to be a better focussed and more streamlined business. There has been a lot of M&A activity in this sector over the past year or so. FFX - Payments service provider to retail and corporate clients. Excellent TrustPilot reviews. High operational gearing and recent move into SME banking sector. MasterCard also recently given full membership status to FFX. Relatively straight talking narrative from the CEO is also welcomed. che7win TXP: oiler with lots of potential - very undervalued compared to TrInidad peers, will drill 10 wells first half 2018, I view lowish risk. TRIN: another Trinidad oiler with ambitions to grow fast from 3000 bopd - cash flow positive. IDP: in beauty and cosmetics - Skinny Tan range established and new ROOTS hair growth range - selling well. More product launches expected in a busy H1 2018. Low PEG valuation. IMM: finishing Lupus drug trial around now - multibagger potential if successful in short term. FDA fast track designation. SGP: Supergroup - online growth as fast as BOO for a fraction of the price. DiscoDave4 AHT - Ashtead Group is a FTSE 100 plant hire company which operates in the UK as A Plant and in the USA as Sunbelt. It is the second largest plant hire company in the US and generates 86% of its income from North America. It currently has 7% of the US market and is targeting 15% by 2021. Growth will be via acquisitions and organic. Its total earnings have already grown five-fold in the last 5 years and IMO they are expert at timing the cyclical nature of the sector. It is a highly leveraged business so beware. The BOD are very knowledgeable and experienced. Just announced a £500m share buyback programme. Forecast PE 16 and PEG 0.9. BUR - Burford Capital is an AIM listed finance and investment management firm which is primarily focussed on litigation finance. This is (IMO) a unique business which operates in a niche area of expertise and as a result has significant barriers to entry. The CEO (Bogart) knows the business and the sector inside out. Generally analysts fail to be able to value the business and consistently under estimate earnings. Forecast Yr End PE 14.9 and PEG 0.2, 2018 analysts forecast reduced growth with a PE of 21 and PEG -0.8 (how far out will they be!). ENQ - Enquest is a FTSE Small Cap Oil and Gas development and production company. Their business model is simply to acquire assets that the majors do not want anymore and turn them into high yield assets. They have just commissioned a $2.9 billion FPSO for the Kraken oil field of which they have a 70% stake and which will double their total oil production in 2018.They have high net debt but they will be generating sufficient free cash flow to start to pay down their debt during next year. The CEO and family hold about 18% of the shares. Forecast PE 4, PEG 0.02 (?). GAW - Games Workshop is in the style of its previous CEO/Chairman, a FTSE Small Cap that continues to make the best fantasy miniatures in the world, distributes them and sells them at a very nice profit to adults that live only to play with toys!. Three quarters of its sales are overseas so its benefiting from a weak pound. A new product line will be rolling out in 2018 which will extend its successful 40k game across more gaming categories particularly in the US. Forecast PE 15 and PEG 0.2. TAP - Taptica is an AIM listed mobile advertising technology company which is now also expanding into video. Most of its turnover is in the US and continued strong growth is anticipated with margins constantly improving over time. It is rated below fair value IMO but this may also be as a consequence of being an Israeli company. Forecast PE 12, PEG 0.6. Cragside SQZ: Oil sector is a good place to be with rising fossil fuel prices, and this company has valuable oil/gas producing assets in the North Sea and £30m cash. The deal with BP should enhance production seven fold with little cash outlay. Too good to be true? We will find out in 2018 GMD : I am expecting this company to rise further from the ashes. With plenty of cash, and 2 large shareholders, the available shares are limited. A decent trading update should be made in the next couple of weeks due to new consoles, and games released. I like the recent appointment of James Shinehouse as director, and am expecting prolonged growth particularly from its Events, Esports & Digital businesses. KRS: This is definitely not a Value Growth share. More of a speculation on the ability of Dave Reeves to deliver shareholder returns from Australian gold, and Manganese in Togo. Boom or bust with this one but it may be flat in 2018 as it could take at least 2 or 3 years to come to fruition. WSG: A major project in the Middle East has recently catapulted the price of this services and security company which has been loss making for over 5 years. Am expecting more from this transformational deal. D4T4: Data solutions is the business, with increasing turnover and more importantly profits. Modest P/E ratio about half of its peers. Recently announced "Contract wins in key vertical sectors". Four different directors buying decent amounts in November 2017. fozzie SQZ - Ahem, please forgive me one oiler! I hold 7 at the moment and have very high expectations of the sector in 2018 as the rising oil price and cost savings made in the lean years propel earnings. £300m deal with BP will complete in the middle of next year and production is expected to rise 7 fold to 21000bopd. No debt. No debt! Latest IC says SQZ has 'the potential for rapid, near-term equity growth. Buy.' RFX - I have held for over a year but was given an unexpected opportunity to buy recently when following excellent results a seller appeared amid profit taking generally. Stunning results at the end of November almost achieving forecast FY in the first half. Foreign currency broking and trad pawnbroking are its business. Well diversified and cash generative, earnings are growing strongly, oh and they have net cash of £13.4m which is nice ;o) ESG - is a pioneering digital financial transactions technology company. A recent joint partnership with Mastercard has seen its brand Homesend incorporated into Mastercard itself with a target market of $22 trillion. Homesend is a scaleable low cost model. They have signed up 15 banks this year, 5 in the last 2 months. Cash raise recently 'The Board of eServGlobal believes that the proceeds will allow HomeSend to better focus on the far larger than expected growth opportunities in the cross-border banking market' i like that bit! AEO - is a live events specialist. The two founders left the board recently so a new team is in place, 'The board is very supportive of the new management team and believes that the Company is well positioned and has the resources and skills to build a much stronger business'. Results on Nov 10 were reassuring with a healthy balance sheet, at 30p £2.7M mcap but with £1.9M in cash. Divi cut back 'in anticipation of future development initiatives to build shareholder value' SPSY - Spectra Systems manufactures products for industries that include brand authentication, document and mail processing, drug discovery, textile services and digital optical media. I began buying several years ago at sub 20p and have recently bought a lot more in the 80p area. Share price is lower now than in October when company gave an 'ahead' statement. Should be a trading update in early Jan 18. There has been a seller from 108 down to current 80p area. Katie Potts Herald IT took a decent slug at 100p earlier in the year. If last divi payment was maintained we would have a yield of 10% here, wishful thinking perhaps. Dibbs TAP, great performer this year and still modestly valued. Suffering as it always has from a foreign AIM stock penalty but they haven’t put a foot wrong. With the Tremor acquisition due to boost earnings along with expansion into new geographical territories I can’t see any reason not to pick TAP again. Mobile advertising is forecast to grow rapidly for several years yet and if the market does apply a higher multiple then a share price far higher is quite possible. WJG, another 2017 pick, the developer and constructor of student accommodation also now moving into the build to rent market. Still on a modest PE and with excellent forward earnings visibility which gives investors comfort and for my mind should give decent scope for earnings upgrades. A bit boring again but if the market turns it will hopefully hold up pretty well. MGP, new to the market this year and little loved thus far. Funnily, detractors seem to forget that the shares are still 50% up from the float price. Since opening at a healthy premium the shares have traded side ways with a few large shareholders moving on and recently Old Mutual emerging with a large holding that they continue to add to, now above 18%. MGP are leaders in teleradiology with their Nighthawk service offering hospitals very rapid reads of scans that they can’t hope to match in house. Radiologists unsurprisingly seem to be preferring to work from home, picking their hours rather than work in a pretty grim NHS hospital. As more leave the NHS’s ability to offer a decent service themselves will reduce so it seems that in time MGP will pick up more and more trusts. The shares aren’t cheap but quality rarely is. FFX, A relatively new holding for me. FFX looks to be gathering momentum with a significant acquisition completed this summer. Transaction volumes are set to rise rapidly and at the same time FFX’s fees are set to increase. House broker forecasts suggest a period of very rapid growth is ahead. IDP, A volatile share price and high Muppet concentration on the BB don’t do this one many favours but this company’s share price could do very well if the management can execute competently. Skinny Tan has performed very well and looks set to continue to grow, especially if they can make inroads into the US market where they have made what looks a good appointment. Roots, their hair care products are looking promising with good sales building through Superdrug. Plenty of execution challenges/ risks but then again that applies to most companies. Big7ime AMER. oil explorer and producer in S America, 7kbopd no debt, plenty of cash to fund 21new wells this yr! Owner 100% operator. Excellent record of finding oil. New potential with 30% interest in a potentially huge discovery (initial results encouraging) tgt to treble production in short term with oil price play chucked in. DPH. Expanding Int'l veterinary pharmaceutical business. Incredibly strong cash conversion with good projects in pipeline. New mkts performing well and consistent increase in divi. GAW. Undervalued Imo on fundamentals and rate of growth. Revenues accelerating and given the high operational gearing of the business, any movement in sales is directly reflected in profits. Divi approx 5%, very low PEG GTC. Oil related, simplistically sells data to oil cos to help find oil. Before oil price crash was increasing profits nicely (£2.5m) but has been badly effected despite diversifying and strategic acquisitions (imo oversold) as mkt cap now just 9m. QXT. Hardware and software platforms for gaming and slot machine industry. Growth mkt, new mkts opps in Asia and S America. Great products always innovating and excellent record of cash generation and increasing profits. Excellent understated management. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
22/1/2018 06:13	apad: Newman on Share Prophets "It can be difficult just buying and holding a share at times, especially when nothing is really happening with the share price and many of its peers are seeing large rises. You could of course argue that you should have picked one of those instead and that you’ve made the wrong choice, but if your original decision was backed by the fundamentals, and nothing has changed on that front, then often the best thing to do is just to wait, or even to add more. That very much seems to be the situation with SDX Energy (SDX), a company where I hold shares myself and have been adding more recently. The share price has been bouncing around the high 40p to mid 50p range for months, and has been unable to breakout even when there has been positive news. But for me it now looks even cheaper than when I originally bought in last autumn, as the fundamentals have actually improved a fair bit. It has had a number of successful drills recently, with wells being put straight into production and adding significant amounts to daily production. Alongside that we also have higher oil prices coming into play, which should make its operations even more profitable, plus gas prices in Morocco for the domestic market which SDX serves are strong and there is surplus demand. Whilst the gas in Morocco has plenty of potential, a lot of existing production – as well as upside potential – comes from its operations in Egypt, with North West Gemsa, where it hold a 50% interest, averaging over 4,500boepd. This field also makes up a decent chunk of the 2P reserves – they stood at around 3 million boe net at the end of 2016, from a total 0f 9.3 million attributable to SDX, and we should soon get an update for the figures as at the end of 2017. Gemsa is expected to continue to produce at a similar rate during the coming year, and with operating costs of just $8/barrel and its oil selling at just a 10% discount to Brent, it should generate good levels of net cash flow. Its other producing field in Egypt, Meseda (50%), had been producing around 3,300boepd gross in the first half of 2017 before facility upgrades were carried out, but with the additional work planned on that field, we could see that figure double. This field also still has plenty in the way of 2P reserves to extract – 10.9 million barrels, as at the end of 2016. There is also plenty going on at its 55% owned South Disouq gas field, and it is hoped that production will get underway in the first half of this year – although that is dependent on negotiations with the government over gas prices. The development would initially target at least 50 million scf/d (gross) and would be directly connected to the nearby national gas pipeline. Currently the company only realises just over $1/mcf though for its gas, which is a fraction of what it gets in Morocco. There is also large potential upside from further exploration at this field, as current gross contingent resources stand at 227Bcf, with an additional 11 million boe. It would also be quite easy to bring these resources online as and when they are proven up, as not only is there a gas pipeline, but also ones for oil and condensate. In Morcco, the drilling campaign at its Sebou field (75% working interest) has been producing some good results – KSR16 tested at 8.43MMscfd; 7.52MMscfd for KSR15; and 6.4MMscfd for KSR14 and the wells are being put straight into production and the company is on track to meet its targets from this licence for this year. That being daily gas sales of 10-11MMscfd, as current infrastructure does limit this – there is no local or national grid in place - but new customers are being added all the time. That would compare very favourably to the current situation which has been averaging 5.5MMscfd at a price of around $9/mcf – and not only would that double, but a MOU is in place with Porcher to increase the price to $12/mcf for a five year period. In terms of this infrastructure in general, things have moved very slowly in recent years, but there now seems to be a renewed urgency from Morocco to become more self-sufficient in terms of generating its own energy in the future – currently a lot of its energy is imported. For instance, a proposed $4.6 billion investment in a natural gas plant is now looking more likely to actually go ahead. Whilst this doesn’t directly affect SDX at this moment in time, it does point to the likelihood that money will be spent on more infrastructure in the future, which would certainly help to solve the problem of actually getting the gas produced to customers, and increasing sales at the same time. SDX is already in the unique position of owning 75% of the only privately owned pipeline in Morocco at the moment, and you could argue that more infrastructure would reduce that commercial advantage. But it is also restricting what the company can sell, and given that a lot of supply currently comes from very expensive bottled gas, I don’t see it as having a negative impact – plus it is still some way off and I would expect SDX to be a much larger company by that stage anyway, based on the progress it is making. There is plenty of exploration upside as well – over 12Bcf of unrisked gas potentially – although the recent drill at Gharb Centre, ELQ-1, produced a disappointing result. That drill location was based around old 3D seismic data, and the company is now in the process of getting new seismics shot to better identify future drill locations. So as you can see, not only is the company already selling oil and gas, but it also has the potential to increase production rapidly at a time when the price, and the market in general, is stronger. At the current share price of around 50p to buy the company is valued at £100 million, and I would argue that the current financial situation supports that. For a start the company had nearly $58 million working capital available at the end of 2017 – with over $30 million of that being cash – and is debt-free, plus it is generating cash flows in the region of $2 million per month. The latest results for the quarter up until the end of September 2017 showed that the company made $10 million revenue and recorded a net profit of $4.4 million, but a lot of that is down to adjustments made as a result of the Circle Oil asset acquisitions. I would be more interested on how the company performs moving forwards, and how the capital expenditure on drilling and improvements to its fields that is has been making translates into increased profits in the future. In terms of the share price and lack of movement, I suspect that there is a background seller and has been for some time, as any sort of rise and volume seems to result in larger blocks being dumped. But I’ve seen this before on many other shares, and when that selling pressure does finally clear, it is often accompanied by a nice rise. There is still risk here, but I believe that the growth potential moving forwards is sufficient to justify a higher market valuation than the current one, so I will remain invested for the longer term unless something fundamentally changes." Read Full Thread Follow Reply
02/1/2018 20:29	attrader: Dibbs TAP great performer this year and still modestly valued. Suffering as it always has from a foreign AIM stock penalty but they haven’t put a foot wrong. With the Tremor acquisition due to boost earnings along with expansion into new geographical territories I can’t see any reason not to pick TAP again. Mobile advertising is forecast to grow rapidly for several years yet and if the market does apply a higher multiple then a share price far higher is quite possible. WJG another 2017 pick, the developer and constructor of student accommodation also now moving into the build to rent market. Still on a modest PE and with excellent forward earnings visibility which gives investors comfort and for my mind should give decent scope for earnings upgrades. A bit boring again but if the market turns it will hopefully hold up pretty well. MGP new to the market this year and little loved thus far. Funnily, detractors seem to forget that the shares are still 50% up from the float price. Since opening at a healthy premium the shares have traded side ways with a few large shareholders moving on and recently Old Mutual emerging with a large holding that they continue to add to, now above 18%. MGP are leaders in teleradiology with their Nighthawk service offering hospitals very rapid reads of scans that they can’t hope to match in house. Radiologists unsurprisingly seem to be preferring to work from home, picking their hours rather than work in a pretty grim NHS hospital. As more leave the NHS’s ability to offer a decent service themselves will reduce so it seems that in time MGP will pick up more and more trusts. The shares aren’t cheap but quality rarely is. FFX A relatively new holding for me. FFX looks to be gathering momentum with a significant acquisition completed this summer. Transaction volumes are set to rise rapidly and at the same time FFX’s fees are set to increase. House broker forecasts suggest a period of very rapid growth is ahead. IDP A volatile share price and high Muppet concentration on the BB don’t do this one many favours but this company’s share price could do very well if the management can execute competently. Skinny Tan has performed very well and looks set to continue to grow, especially if they can make inroads into the US market where they have made what looks a good appointment. Roots, their hair care products are looking promising with good sales building through Superdrug. Plenty of execution challenges/ risks but then again that applies to most companies. Cragside SQZ Oil sector is a good place to be with rising fossil fuel prices, and this company has valuable oil/gas producing assets in the North Sea and £30m cash. The deal with BP should enhance production seven fold with little cash outlay. Too good to be true? We will find out in 2018 GMD I am expecting this company to rise further from the ashes. With plenty of cash, and 2 large shareholders, the available shares are limited. A decent trading update should be made in the next couple of weeks due to new consoles, and games released. I like the recent appointment of James Shinehouse as director, and am expecting prolonged growth particularly from its Events, Esports & Digital businesses. KRS This is definitely not a Value Growth share. More of a speculation on the ability of Dave Reeves to deliver shareholder returns from Australian gold, and Manganese in Togo. Boom or bust with this one but it may be flat in 2018 as it could take at least 2 or 3 years to come to fruition. WSG A major project in the Middle East has recently catapulted the price of this services and security company which has been loss making for over 5 years. Am expecting more from this transformational deal. D4T4 Data solutions is the business, with increasing turnover and more importantly profits. Modest P/E ratio about half of its peers. Recently announced "Contract wins in key vertical sectors". Four different directors buying decent amounts in November 2017. Fozzie SQZ Ahem, please forgive me one oiler! I hold 7 at the moment and have very high expectations of the sector in 2018 as the rising oil price and cost savings made in the lean years propel earnings. £300m deal with BP will complete in the middle of next year and production is expected to rise 7 fold to 21000bopd. No debt. No debt! Latest IC says SQZ has 'the potential for rapid, near-term equity growth. Buy.' RFX I have held for over a year but was given an unexpected opportunity to buy recently when following excellent results a seller appeared amid profit taking generally. Stunning results at the end of November almost achieving forecast FY in the first half. Foreign currency broking and trad pawnbroking are its business. Well diversified and cash generative, earnings are growing strongly, oh and they have net cash of £13.4m which is nice ;o) ESG is a pioneering digital financial transactions technology company. A recent joint partnership with Mastercard has seen its brand Homesend incorporated into Mastercard itself with a target market of $22 trillion. Homesend is a scaleable low cost model. They have signed up 15 banks this year, 5 in the last 2 months. Cash raise recently 'The Board of eServGlobal believes that the proceeds will allow HomeSend to better focus on the far larger than expected growth opportunities in the cross-border banking market' i like that bit! AEO is a live events specialist. The two founders left the board recently so a new team is in place, 'The board is very supportive of the new management team and believes that the Company is well positioned and has the resources and skills to build a much stronger business'. Results on Nov 10 were reassuring with a healthy balance sheet, at 30p £2.7M mcap but with £1.9M in cash. Divi cut back 'in anticipation of future development initiatives to build shareholder value' SPSY Spectra Systems manufactures products for industries that include brand authentication, document and mail processing, drug discovery, textile services and digital optical media. I began buying several years ago at sub 20p and have recently bought a lot more in the 80p area. Share price is lower now than in October when company gave an 'ahead' statement. Should be a trading update in early Jan 18. There has been a seller from 108 down to current 80p area. Katie Potts Herald IT took a decent slug at 100p earlier in the year. If last divi payment was maintained we would have a yield of 10% here, wishful thinking perhaps. DiscoDave4 AHT Ashtead Group is a FTSE 100 plant hire company which operates in the UK as A Plant and in the USA as Sunbelt. It is the second largest plant hire company in the US and generates 86% of its income from North America. It currently has 7% of the US market and is targeting 15% by 2021. Growth will be via acquisitions and organic. Its total earnings have already grown five-fold in the last 5 years and IMO they are expert at timing the cyclical nature of the sector. It is a highly leveraged business so beware. The BOD are very knowledgeable and experienced. Just announced a £500m share buyback programme. Forecast PE 16 and PEG 0.9. BUR Burford Capital is an AIM listed finance and investment management firm which is primarily focussed on litigation finance. This is (IMO) a unique business which operates in a niche area of expertise and as a result has significant barriers to entry. The CEO (Bogart) knows the business and the sector inside out. Generally analysts fail to be able to value the business and consistently under estimate earnings. Forecast Yr End PE 14.9 and PEG 0.2, 2018 analysts forecast reduced growth with a PE of 21 and PEG -0.8 (how far out will they be!). ENQ Enquest is a FTSE Small Cap Oil and Gas development and production company. Their business model is simply to acquire assets that the majors do not want anymore and turn them into high yield assets. They have just commissioned a $2.9 billion FPSO for the Kraken oil field of which they have a 70% stake and which will double their total oil production in 2018.They have high net debt but they will be generating sufficient free cash flow to start to pay down their debt during next year. The CEO and family hold about 18% of the shares. Forecast PE 4, PEG 0.02 (?). GAW Games Workshop is in the style of its previous CEO/Chairman, a FTSE Small Cap that continues to make the best fantasy miniatures in the world, distributes them and sells them at a very nice profit to adults that live only to play with toys!. Three quarters of its sales are overseas so its benefiting from a weak pound. A new product line will be rolling out in 2018 which will extend its successful 40k game across more gaming categories particularly in the US. Forecast PE 15 and PEG 0.2. TAP Taptica is an AIM listed mobile advertising technology company which is now also expanding into video. Most of its turnover is in the US and continued strong growth is anticipated with margins constantly improving over time. It is rated below fair value IMO but this may also be as a consequence of being an Israeli company. Forecast PE 12, PEG 0.6. Che7win TXP oiler with lots of potential - very undervalued compared to TrInidad peers, will drill 10 wells first half 2018, I view lowish risk. TRIN another Trinidad oiler with ambitions to grow fast from 3000 bopd - cash flow positive. IDP in beauty and cosmetics - Skinny Tan range established and new ROOTS hair growth range - selling well. More product launches expected in a busy H1 2018. Low PEG valuation. IMM finishing Lupus drug trial around now - multibagger potential if successful in short term. FDA fast track designation. SGP Supergroup - online growth as fast as BOO for a fraction of the price. RP19 VLE A conservatively ran company which buys struggling companies, turns them around and sells them on (think Melrose). Share price largely discounts realistic valuations for VLE's investments. Of the current portfolio, Impetus Automotive would seem to offer the most promise. RFX Northern company with 4 key business segments - foreign currency exchange, pawnbroking loans, buying and selling precious metals and retailing second hand and new jewellery. 120 stores with targeted expansion plans and a small but growing online presence. ASH Government policy has meant that there have been historic barriers to the company developing its considerable pipeline in the development of extra care and supported living provision. Recent joint venture with Morgan Sindall should unlock the delivery of this pipeline. ASH are also developing a presence in the modular building sector (houses, education facilities, site offices, health care etc) which I view as a growth area (Morgan Sindall also operate in this space). DRV Company providing engineering and construction consultancy services (planning, project management, dispute resolution etc). Acquired badly and diversified too much. However, would now seem to be a better focussed and more streamlined business. There has been a lot of M&A activity in this sector over the past year or so. FFX Payments service provider to retail and corporate clients. Excellent TrustPilot reviews. High operational gearing and recent move into SME banking sector. MasterCard also recently given full membership status to FFX. Relatively straight talking narrative from the CEO is also welcomed. Dacian XLM at the core, they trawl the internet for gamblers and pass them on to casino operators who in turn reward xlm with a cut from the profits. XPD they're trucking uk frock to eastern Europe and back. A buy and build in a fragmented sector. And they're not bloody truckers, they call themselves freight forwarders ( fancy words for truckers, really :-). FLTA they're cleaning deep frying oil, in restaurants. Yikes, dirty work. And I can't believe that people do actually pay for that. NTQ tiny engineer supplying drilling equipment to US shale. Enterprise value (market cap minus cash) circa £3 mil. PCIP not quite sure what they're up to, something to do with protecting customers' details when making a payment over the phone. Wskill ISAT leader in maritime sat coms now doing same in airplanes ,equipment best in class fallen back due to investment required to launch additional sats 12 months from now it will have completed most of the expenditures and be receiving income from investment. IGG Also best provider of spread betting and now branching into stockbroking ,with Barclays fiasco will soon pick up steam excellent divi. FLX cyber protection with own software just won a new contract after spending a week in DD having its software hacked it won the contract against stiff competition. HUM gold miner just had its first gold pour full production 130k Oz per year. IDP cosmetics brand just building a portfolio of products. Piedro TSTL Makes hospital disinfectants based on chlorine dioxide. Rest of world sales now approaching 50% of total. Takeover red herring. SRT Involved in marine domain awareness technology. Produce their own equipment and sell complete systems. Very jam tomorrow company waiting for big contracts to arrive so may not make it into the 2019 pick OCN 75% Brazilian maritime and 25% Investment portfolio. Originally 50:50 the Brazilian part showing all the growth having 2 container terminals and 70 odd tugboats CAM Principal business is tea followed by nuts and avocados. Seems to have passed through a phase of diworsification getting involved in engineering and banking which are gradually being sold off. MGNS construction company with a difference. Passed through a period of bad contracts but now more careful preferring many small contracts rather than going for the big one. Iomax99 MGP leader in its field, forecast CARG of 20% for next 3/4 years, with gross margins not far short of 50%. FUTR Physical/digital specialist publishing, significantly transformed over last couple of years to focus on maximising overall online proposition. BUR Market leader in litigation finance, strong track record, industry still at an early stage. HL. Leading fintech in UK online platform space, ambitious plans for further expansion, yet barely scratching the surface of target UK savings market. CVSG Leading veterinary consolidator, still only have c 14% of UK market (strong acquisition pipeline), strong cross selling of services/continuing to add new/complementary services/ expanding overseas, recent correction overdone. Haywards26 REDS Software Solutions and Smart Building systems integrators, providing design, implementation of networks, managed services. Contract wins in 2017 with big name clients, which has confirmed the business traction being gained. BHRD a digital marketing group including marketing, technology and e-commerce businesses. Headed by experienced marketing Chairman (Peter Scott ). Profitable with strong growth potential. Business appears to be gaining traction cross selling between various group entities with new large name client wins of late. Buy and build strategy. BLVN board removed in 2017 and replaced by the largest shareholder (COC), who have removed the executive directors and turned the company into a holding entity, with two oil projects. Both pre commercialisation, but ETINDE (Cameroon) potentially a very significant discovery. Partnered with New Age/Lukoil further drilling to occur in 2018 to sure up the resource. I expect COC to at this point then to sell the remaining ETINDE asset and return cash to shareholders. Market cap underpinned by Cash on balance sheet. SRC a relatively new entity. Operates new and existing construction material assets in places where opportunity is greatest. Main asset is a quarry owned in Guernsey and has the market share supplying materials from the quarry. In addition there has been two recent concrete producers acquired in 2017. Experienced board. Buy and build strategy. Profitable and expect further significant growth . Market cap underpinned by Quarry asset. RHL is an engineering business offering design, manufacture, installation, maintenance and decommissioning services, specializing in the nuclear sector. They have had a tough few years due to an Energy to Waste construction contract nightmare. Following this the business has evolved its offering from the more complex and risky construction aspect to nuclear related manufacturing and decommissioning services. Valhamos DOTD Dotmailer product has a strong position with ecommerce platforms such as Magento. Growing international presence in US and Far East and recent acquisition enables move to omni-channel communication and customer engagement including live chat and social media. NEXS Recent IPO (July 2017), infrastructure services to housebuilding and commercial sectors, looks set to benefit from government commitment to build 300k houses p.a. Company has 2 division; Tamdown infrastructure and civil engineering services (customers 9 of top 10 largest UK housebuilders) and TriConnex designs, installs, connects utility networks (started in 2011 has shown profit CAGR of 70% since 2013) D4T4 Growth driver is Customer experience (CX) /Customer data platform software through the Celebrus offering along with necessity to meet GPRD requirements next year. Contracts delays impacted recent interims (and share price accordingly) but recent director purchases support company claims to be still on course to meet full year targets. CAKE Patisserie is almost metronomic in its growth and profit performance with increase in ROIC over the years. 199 outlets and targeting 20 new stores this current year each one expected to be profitable from day one with average payback under 2 years. SGP Recent launch of Superdry 5.0 Global Digital Brand strategy marks the next chapter in the company’s development with growth in ecommerce and continued roll-out and investment in US and China. Thelongandtheshortandthetall Googl (class A) revenue and profit growing growing at approximately 25% per year. Basically no debt. Huge cash reserves - i expect a tax ease on the repatriation of foreign held currency plus the US tax cut will benefit profits. There are too many strings to googles bow to list here. Heres just a couple: Waymo is the most advanced in the driverless car market, youtube, 90% of mobiles run on android etc. Also there is the potential for spin offs. Facebook basically no debt. Vertual monopoly - Throwing off cash. Regular acquisitions. Super targetted advertising that advertisers will pay a lot for. Slowing user growth but they are now in the monitisation stage. Will benefit from us tax cut and possible repatriation of foreign reserves. Idp small cosmetics and life science business. Very low debt. Sp way under recent placing. Growing list of brands. All products manufactured by third paries - no need for expensive plant or property. Products are advertised via social media. They are very inventive with their product designs. Usually combining two or three products in one. Ie fake tan and cellulite reducing effects, skin whitening cream with spf50 Caution there is a snake oil feeling that is growing in me. SOM small company manufacturing industrial concrete levelling machines. Basically no debt and growing cash reserves. World leader in this very niche part of the construction industry. I can see Somero being bought by one of the big boys one day. Should also benefit from us tax cut. Does require continued world commercial construction projects. Cake slow but steady growing cafe/bakery. Clear plan for more store roll outs - funded internally. Basically no debt and growing cash reserves. No need for huge capital outlays. Multibagger ARC Been in ARC for several years ago now. Stickiness of blue chip customers (only 2 customer losses over 10 years apparently), strong cash generation rate, no debt, hold about £2.6m cash, and now dividend paying (progressive policy indicated). New products in trials at 5 Tier 1 banks and participant in Symphony and OpenMAMA forums which could widen the addressable market. Very conservative, low key management and accounting style - the typical boring but solid company with high barriers to entry. Management seem quietly confident. IDEA Big UK player in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) software space with several high profile customers across health, banking, rail, air transportation etc. About 160 NHS Trusts and all the Scottish NHS Trusts use them. Also 8 out of top 10 accounting groups use them.Growing upwards of 20%+ year on year. Solid track record of integrating acquisitions, paying down manageable debt and dividend paying. IQE Strong IP portfolio, proven tech capability and strong backing from Welsh government, massive expansion of manufacturing capacity in train and oversubscribed £100m recent placing. Technology has high barriers to entry and long lead times for competitors to try and catch up. I expect it to be acquired for the tech/IP in due course.I missed the ARM story, but won't miss this one. High PE stock - for cutting edge tech PE is the wrong metric, though not sure which metric ever makes sense. LTG Very strong track record of Andrew Brode (in particular) and Jonathan Satchell who own about 30-40% of the company. Strong suite of customisable products, complementary strategic acquisitions and excellent geographic spread. High US income through Rustici acquisition (may benefit from Trump's tax reforms). Online/elearning market can only get bigger. Successful ongoing delivery of a massive UK civil service contract (in conjunction with KPMG) could be a reference customer for further Whitehall contracts given Brexit. Serviceable debt and dividend paying. Intention to develop into a 100 million business (having upped target from a 50 million business). CYAN Looks like at the threshold of a turnaround in fortunes with smart metering space (electricity, gas, water and now IoT) developing at a rapid pace across the world. About $100m purchase orders signed over the last year or so across a number of countries - Sweden,UK, Iran, Bangladesh, India. Works with local/in country partners who do the implementation and CYAN provides the technology/communication solutions and is partnering a number of meter manufacturers, as the tech is meter agnostic. Excellent suite of communication technologies which are able to address different economic market segments, local terrain and built up area issues and at differing points of the technology maturity cycle. Expects to get at least £25m from UK "not spot coverage" in UK smart meter rollout. Moving from a hardware to a recurrent software, multi year, per meter revenue model (not very different from ARM model broadly speaking). John Cronin, Chairman has a good track record of several successful exits/sell ons (about £650m according to company website). Directors including JC took one year salaries in equity...and have bought the dips/propped up the share price. redartbmud Arc Maiden dividend announced, which indicates that the business is maturing as a strong business generating good cash returns. Plenty of scope for it’s products in the market. Vanl Undemanding rating and an active shareholder who is the former holder. He will keep the management honest and certainly on their toes to outperform. Outside chance of a takeover. Ltg Expect more activity. The statement below says it all. When the AIM-listed firm entered the market in 2013 it sought to achieve run-rate revenues of £50m and EBITDA margins of 20% by the end of 2018, but Learning Technologies' 2017 interim results revealed that the company had hit targets twelve months ahead of schedule. However, as part of Tuesday's event, the e-learning group outlined a plan focused on doubling run-rate revenues to £100m with an EBITDA in excess of £25m by the end of 2020. Learning Technologies said it planned to achieve the new objectives through a combination of strong organic growth paired with strategic acquisitions that complemented its current business model. Rpc operating in a fragmented market, ripe for further consolidation. The tintins marked it down on the number of acquisitions in the year. I think that they are wrong, and expect more activity and further organic and acquisition based growth in 2018. Cost savings along the line. Rws – Unfortunately keeps issuing paper, but continuing to build a niche business in a growing market. The purchase of Moravia is transformational. Mattjos AAZ Low cost of production & AISC, valued at 25% of the CAPEX to date on the Gedabek plant & equipment. Sat on a huge, mainly unexplored, acreage although previous Russian data (as given in the IPO docs) gives a strong indication what is really present. New Director of Geology (Stephen Westhead ex. Polyus) is really starting to make his mark and has already found the previously unknown Ugur deposit right on their doorstep. The CEO has leant his own cash to the company on two occasions rather than dilute the precious equity - a rare event for an AIM miner. NED Prof. John Monhemius is one of the worlds leading authorities on pm processing techniques & has been instrumental in their SART plant and then how to process the complex ore using combination of Agitation then Flotation or, Flotation then Agitation. They have a surplus of both oxide and sulphide ore now stacked at Gedabek in case of any harsh winter weather this year. The underground exploration activities at Gedabek this winter and the fan drilling scheduled for early 2018 are likely to prove the catalysts for a big increase in JORC resources. Meanwhile, the healthy cashflow keeps reducing the debt (on plan). News over the next 3 months needs to be watched very closely. Against all this, the state mining entity AZERGOLD has a gold mine close by but lacks the technical skills to develop it effectively .. A bid for the entirety of AAZ is a possibility and at even 3x current price is dirt cheap STAR It has some persuasive tracking technology and I believe will reach a point in 2018 where recurring revenues cover their costs. The business model looks very appealing & so too the potential for rapid scale-up. STCM It is simply far too cheap and looks a perfect takeover target in the acquisitive global cement market. A unique dry-line operation in Kaz. SYM It is a long term serial underperformer but, now has a strong major investor (Somerston) with a seat on the board and they are turning this company from a lifestyle operation into a solid business. Looks likely to pay a maiden divi next year. Strong marketing/branding and big distribution pipeline in place to push new products. Strong Bed'n'Isa activity by Directors this year. WTI It is probably the riskiest one but, Orion seem strongly persuaded of the opportunity and the recent acquisition of Katumba from a reluctant but forced seller (Intrepid Mines) looks transformational. Highly leveraged to copper price so a mining play on EV adoption. Gsbmba99 Arcontech (ARC) for reasons Janeann mentioned. Shares are good value. They get paid in advance. Lots of cash on the balance sheet. Have already stated they have enough cash so, in absence of any M&A, could show interesting dividend growth. New product currently in trials. Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB1) 2H17 gross mortgage lending has been up high single digits YoY and UKFinance/Council of Mortgage Lenders recently upgraded 2017 and 2018 forecasts (albeit modestly). New technology being introduced to reduce paperwork which should hopefully benefit adviser productivity. Opening up of product switch market (new mortgage with same lender) means market opportunity £90bn (or +30%) larger than 18 months ago. New direct to consumer advertising commences in 2018. Despite recent senior hires and advertising, no change to forecasts whereas most companies would have reduced as a result of "investing" for growth. Makes me think things are going a bit better than previously planned. Liontrust (LIO) They bought the sustainable investments business from Alliance Trust in April. They hired a new head of distribution about a year ago. They've hired a fixed income manager and strategist who, judging by the Kames funds on Trustnet that changed manager the day before LIO announced their arrival, used to co-manage Kames Strategic Global Bond ($638 AuM according to Trustnet), Kames Strategic Bond (£320m), Kames High Yield Bond (£908m) and Kames Sterling Corporate Bond (£604m). If 10% of his prior clients follow him, could lead to nice amount of net new money. Also, Reade Griffith (Polygon) owns 10%. Jarvis Securities (JIM) I am hoping for EPS growth attractively into double digits for duration of interest rate raising cycle. See my previous comments on thread. Premier Asset Management (PAM) It's a retail focused asset manager that distributes almost exclusively through IFAs. They have a bit of a niche in the "income" category and within that in multi-asset funds. From the admission document (pdf page 17): "The IA has identified multi-asset and income funds as long term beneficiaries of changes in the UK pensions and retirement market and AUM invested in the multi-asset market in the UK has grown by a CAGR of 20.2 per cent. over the past 10 years." For reference, 1.202^10-1=529%. Every quarter since fiscal Q313 has seen positive net new money. The distribution platform is powerful with >£500m of gross sales in each of last four quarters. Unfortunately, net sales over that period "only" £746m. The fact that a surprisingly large proportion of their customers are in pre-RDR funds means that revenue and costs are distorted. Net management fee (after payment of trail commission): £27.6m (FY15), £33.3m (FY16), £40.9m (FY17). Costs (excl. trail commission): £20m (FY15), £22.8m (FY16), £26.6m (FY17). Op margin (% net revenue excl trail commission): 27.5% (FY15), 31.5% (FY16), 35% (FY17). That's 750bps of additional margin created through net revenue rising faster than net costs. Because it's retail oriented, I can track progress through the fund fact sheets (which represent 94% of corporate AuM). AuM increased at 13/23 funds in Jun, 19/24 in Jul, 17/23 in Aug, 16/23 in Sep, 22/23 in Oct and 16/23 in Nov despite most of the funds paying dividends very regularly (sometimes monthly). AuM movement: -£8.4m (Jun), £120.1m (Jul), £75.6m (Aug), £68.5m (Sep), £181.3m (Oct) and £48.5m (Nov). The multi-asset series of funds were £2.884bn as at May and were £3.225bn as at Nov. Valuation not nearly as cheap as it was so return may be down to EPS growth. Janeann ACSO Global ticketing specialist providing technology to improve customer experience primarily in leisure attractions theme parks etc. Leader in its field. Started out to avoid queueing at theme parks and developed since. Large global customer base. Growing by both expansion and acquisition, and growth expected to continue. ARC Is a small niche player and provides solutions to managing real time market data - both software and consultancy. Number of very high profile clients with recurring revenue streams. Recently started paying dividends. LTG is a dividend paying company providing digital learning solutions and interactive media programmes to a broad range of clients including government. Aiming to grow by both broadening its range of products and clients across a broader geographic range as well as via acquisition. PRSM Software company specialising and leading the field in development of robotic process automation particularly of more routing back office tasks enabling the freeing up staff to do more productive tasks. Globally active in events and with a diverse range of high profile partners prsm is at the forefront of the developing technology. ZTF Specialist manufacturer of plastic foam for a very broad and diverse range of industries including sports, automotive & construction. Many specialist uses and complex production process. Recent deal with Nike. Expanded production base in China now coming onstream and plans to expand in UK also. Dividend payer. Attrader Burford Capital They provide finance for litigations which is a market in flux. Historically, they have been generating 25% IRR on their investments. Litigation business is uncorrelated with rest of economy which should reduce risk in portfolio. Ample room to compound capital as market is still growing. Credit: Hydrus IG Index UK Based spread betting operator with exceptional customer service. They were hit by potential new regulations however they are diversifying into traditional brokerage businesses (SIPP, ISAs). That should improve stickiness of revenues and reduce necessity to constantly recruit new clients. High returns on capital, good management. Like the CEO. Credit: APAD Amadeus Spanish market leader in processing travel transactions. More people traveling due to cheap flights, growing middle class and wealth generation in Asia. Sticky revenues with potential to grow at 6% in line with market growth. Credit: Terry Smith) AppleGreen Irish forecourt retailer acquiring petrol stations from oil majors exiting the business. They refurbish forecourts, rebrand them, add food & cloth retailing. Forecourt retailing is high margin business as customers would pay more for buying snacks in the middle of motorway. Management owns a decent stake. Credit: Wexboy) MSAB-B Swedish mobile forensics software provider competing in a niche market with only few other companies. Their competitive edge is number of devices supported by their software. Law enforcement agencies need a reliable platform to quickly extract data from suspect device and decipher messages. 50+% recurring revenues. Mobile forensics market is growing at a decent rate. Lauders HOC Gold and silver miner with South American operations. FTSE 250 and pays a dividend. Reducing debt and as precious metal prices increase so do their profits. If 2018 is financially rocky as some say it will be then HOC should do well. My largest holding by a mile. SDX "Roulette wheel" to some but my 2nd largest holding and I think they will do well in 2018. Egyptian and Moroccan operations of mainly gas. Current drilling has been on a roll & coming up roses. The share-price is under-performing and hopefully will be rerated in 2018. MSLH Been a good year for this company that offers natural stone and concrete hard landscaping products, supplying the construction, home improvement and landscape markets. They are also into street furniture that protects public from some of the terror events we have witnessed over recent years. I believe they will continue to do well and acquire select businesses to expand their offerings. Current offer: 437.30p ITV Think everyone knows about this broadcaster. Been weak lately but the recent Disney/Time Warner news among other things has shifted momentum a bit and a new CEO next year may all mean a better year for the company. Pays dividends and special dividends. Always a chance of a bid/merger with them too. Been mentioned countless times in the past and no doubt will continue. Current offer: 166p BVXP No need to really comment on them here. Everyone pretty much knows the deal and why they are a great BTFD opportunity if the chance ever comes. Current offer: 2550p APAD FEVR a new international brand, creative management, minimal costs, pays a divi, needs to succeed in the US) BOO stunning CEO combination, huge barriers to entry, disruptive, buy direct from the brand not through an on-line shop, big spend but not difficult, no negatives ABC products gain value the more they are used, becoming the gorilla on the block but high costs developing their systems - need to prove success in developing software and distribution centres) BVXP niche technology, hard to compete with, very low costs, losing an income stream, needs to succeed with Siemens collaboration TSTL novel, low cost technology in an important area, international expansion is important, will probably be sold on in a year or two if it continues to be successful Read Full Thread Follow Reply
01/1/2018 09:48	apad: BOO gross margin fall since the 2016 finals: 57.8% 54.6% 53.3% This is used to explain the continued depression of the BOO share price since the general drop in highly priced shares. The argument is oft-repeated "What I tell you three times it is true". My argument is that this is a deliberate part of the battle for customers (rather than the result of some sort of fundamental change in the business environment), and so it is a sensible business tactic. We'll soon see whether I am correct or not! Looking forward to seeing your portrayal of the Comparison entries, attrader. apad Update of entry descriptions: Multibagger ARC Been in for several years ago now. Stickiness of blue chip customers (only 2 customer losses over 10 years apparently), strong cash generation rate, no debt, hold about £2.6m cash, and now dividend paying (progressive policy indicated). New products in trials at 5 Tier 1 banks and participant in Symphony and OpenMAMA forums which could widen the addressable market. Very conservative, low key management and accounting style - the typical boring but solid company with high barriers to entry. Management seem quietly confident. IDEA Big UK player in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) software space with several high profile customers across health, banking, rail, air transportation etc. About 160 NHS Trusts and all the Scottish NHS Trusts use them. Also 8 out of top 10 accounting groups use them.Growing upwards of 20%+ year on year. Solid track record of integrating acquisitions, paying down manageable debt and dividend paying. IQE Strong IP portfolio, proven tech capability and strong backing from Welsh government, massive expansion of manufacturing capacity in train and oversubscribed £100m recent placing. Technology has high barriers to entry and long lead times for competitors to try and catch up. I expect it to be acquired for the tech/IP in due course.I missed the ARM story, but won't miss this one. High PE stock - for cutting edge tech PE is the wrong metric, though not sure which metric ever makes sense. LTG Very strong track record of Andrew Brode (in particular) and Jonathan Satchell who own about 30-40% of the company. Strong suite of customisable products, complementary strategic acquisitions and excellent geographic spread. High US income through Rustici acquisition (may benefit from Trump's tax reforms). Online/elearning market can only get bigger. Successful ongoing delivery of a massive UK civil service contract (in conjunction with KPMG) could be a reference customer for further Whitehall contracts given Brexit. Serviceable debt and dividend paying. Intention to develop into a 100 million business (having upped target from a 50 million business). CYAN Looks like at the threshold of a turnaround in fortunes with smart metering space (electricity, gas, water and now IoT) developing at a rapid pace across the world. About $100m purchase orders signed over the last year or so across a number of countries - Sweden,UK, Iran, Bangladesh, India. Works with local/in country partners who do the implementation and CYAN provides the technology/communication solutions and is partnering a number of meter manufacturers, as the tech is meter agnostic. Excellent suite of communication technologies which are able to address different economic market segments, local terrain and built up area issues and at differing points of the technology maturity cycle. Expects to get at least £25m from UK "not spot coverage" in UK smart meter rollout. Moving from a hardware to a recurrent software, multi year, per meter revenue model (not very different from ARM model broadly speaking). John Cronin, Chairman has a good track record of several successful exits/sell ons (about £650m according to company website). Directors including JC took one year salaries in equity...and have bought the dips/propped up the share price. redartbmud Arc Maiden dividend announced, which indicates that the business is maturing as a strong business generating good cash returns. Plenty of scope for it’s products in the market. Vanl Undemanding rating and an active shareholder who is the former holder. He will keep the management honest and certainly on their toes to outperform. Outside chance of a takeover. Ltg Expect more activity. The statement below says it all. When the AIM-listed firm entered the market in 2013 it sought to achieve run-rate revenues of £50m and EBITDA margins of 20% by the end of 2018, but Learning Technologies' 2017 interim results revealed that the company had hit targets twelve months ahead of schedule. However, as part of Tuesday's event, the e-learning group outlined a plan focused on doubling run-rate revenues to £100m with an EBITDA in excess of £25m by the end of 2020. Learning Technologies said it planned to achieve the new objectives through a combination of strong organic growth paired with strategic acquisitions that complemented its current business model. Rpc operating in a fragmented market, ripe for further consolidation. The tintins marked it down on the number of acquisitions in the year. I think that they are wrong, and expect more activity and further organic and acquisition based growth in 2018. Cost savings along the line. Rws – Unfortunately keeps issuing paper, but continuing to build a niche business in a growing market. The purchase of Moravia is transformational. Mattjos AAZ Low cost of production & AISC, valued at 25% of the CAPEX to date on the Gedabek plant & equipment. Sat on a huge, mainly unexplored, acreage although previous Russian data (as given in the IPO docs) gives a strong indication what is really present. New Director of Geology (Stephen Westhead ex. Polyus) is really starting to make his mark and has already found the previously unknown Ugur deposit right on their doorstep. The CEO has leant his own cash to the company on two occasions rather than dilute the precious equity - a rare event for an AIM miner. NED Prof. John Monhemius is one of the worlds leading authorities on pm processing techniques & has been instrumental in their SART plant and then how to process the complex ore using combination of Agitation then Flotation or, Flotation then Agitation. They have a surplus of both oxide and sulphide ore now stacked at Gedabek in case of any harsh winter weather this year. The underground exploration activities at Gedabek this winter and the fan drilling scheduled for early 2018 are likely to prove the catalysts for a big increase in JORC resources. Meanwhile, the healthy cashflow keeps reducing the debt (on plan). News over the next 3 months needs to be watched very closely. Against all this, the state mining entity AZERGOLD has a gold mine close by but lacks the technical skills to develop it effectively .. A bid for the entirety of AAZ is a possibility and at even 3x current price is dirt cheap STAR It has some persuasive tracking technology and I believe will reach a point in 2018 where recurring revenues cover their costs. The business model looks very appealing & so too the potential for rapid scale-up. STCM It is simply far too cheap and looks a perfect takeover target in the acquisitive global cement market. A unique dry-line operation in Kaz. SYM It is a long term serial underperformer but, now has a strong major investor (Somerston) with a seat on the board and they are turning this company from a lifestyle operation into a solid business. Looks likely to pay a maiden divi next year. Strong marketing/branding and big distribution pipeline in place to push new products. Strong Bed'n'Isa activity by Directors this year. WTI It is probably the riskiest one but, Orion seem strongly persuaded of the opportunity and the recent acquisition of Katumba from a reluctant but forced seller (Intrepid Mines) looks transformational. Highly leveraged to copper price so a mining play on EV adoption. Gsbmba99 Arcontech (ARC) for reasons Janeann mentioned. Shares are good value. They get paid in advance. Lots of cash on the balance sheet. Have already stated they have enough cash so, in absence of any M&A, could show interesting dividend growth. New product currently in trials. Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB1) 2H17 gross mortgage lending has been up high single digits YoY and UKFinance/Council of Mortgage Lenders recently upgraded 2017 and 2018 forecasts (albeit modestly). New technology being introduced to reduce paperwork which should hopefully benefit adviser productivity. Opening up of product switch market (new mortgage with same lender) means market opportunity £90bn (or +30%) larger than 18 months ago. New direct to consumer advertising commences in 2018. Despite recent senior hires and advertising, no change to forecasts whereas most companies would have reduced as a result of "investing" for growth. Makes me think things are going a bit better than previously planned. Liontrust (LIO) They bought the sustainable investments business from Alliance Trust in April. They hired a new head of distribution about a year ago. They've hired a fixed income manager and strategist who, judging by the Kames funds on Trustnet that changed manager the day before LIO announced their arrival, used to co-manage Kames Strategic Global Bond ($638 AuM according to Trustnet), Kames Strategic Bond (£320m), Kames High Yield Bond (£908m) and Kames Sterling Corporate Bond (£604m). If 10% of his prior clients follow him, could lead to nice amount of net new money. Also, Reade Griffith (Polygon) owns 10%. Jarvis Securities (JIM) I am hoping for EPS growth attractively into double digits for duration of interest rate raising cycle. See my previous comments on thread. Premier Asset Management (PAM) It's a retail focused asset manager that distributes almost exclusively through IFAs. They have a bit of a niche in the "income" category and within that in multi-asset funds. From the admission document (pdf page 17): "The IA has identified multi-asset and income funds as long term beneficiaries of changes in the UK pensions and retirement market and AUM invested in the multi-asset market in the UK has grown by a CAGR of 20.2 per cent. over the past 10 years." For reference, 1.202^10-1=529%. Every quarter since fiscal Q313 has seen positive net new money. The distribution platform is powerful with >£500m of gross sales in each of last four quarters. Unfortunately, net sales over that period "only" £746m. The fact that a surprisingly large proportion of their customers are in pre-RDR funds means that revenue and costs are distorted. Net management fee (after payment of trail commission): £27.6m (FY15), £33.3m (FY16), £40.9m (FY17). Costs (excl. trail commission): £20m (FY15), £22.8m (FY16), £26.6m (FY17). Op margin (% net revenue excl trail commission): 27.5% (FY15), 31.5% (FY16), 35% (FY17). That's 750bps of additional margin created through net revenue rising faster than net costs. Because it's retail oriented, I can track progress through the fund fact sheets (which represent 94% of corporate AuM). AuM increased at 13/23 funds in Jun, 19/24 in Jul, 17/23 in Aug, 16/23 in Sep, 22/23 in Oct and 16/23 in Nov despite most of the funds paying dividends very regularly (sometimes monthly). AuM movement: -£8.4m (Jun), £120.1m (Jul), £75.6m (Aug), £68.5m (Sep), £181.3m (Oct) and £48.5m (Nov). The multi-asset series of funds were £2.884bn as at May and were £3.225bn as at Nov. Valuation not nearly as cheap as it was so return may be down to EPS growth. Janeann ACSO Global ticketing specialist providing technology to improve customer experience primarily in leisure attractions theme parks etc. Leader in its field. Started out to avoid queueing at theme parks and developed since. Large global customer base. Growing by both expansion and acquisition, and growth expected to continue. ARC Is a small niche player and provides solutions to managing real time market data - both software and consultancy. Number of very high profile clients with recurring revenue streams. Recently started paying dividends. LTG is a dividend paying company providing digital learning solutions and interactive media programmes to a broad range of clients including government. Aiming to grow by both broadening its range of products and clients across a broader geographic range as well as via acquisition. PRSM Software company specialising and leading the field in development of robotic process automation particularly of more routing back office tasks enabling the freeing up staff to do more productive tasks. Globally active in events and with a diverse range of high profile partners prsm is at the forefront of the developing technology. ZTF Specialist manufacturer of plastic foam for a very broad and diverse range of industries including sports, automotive & construction. Many specialist uses and complex production process. Recent deal with Nike. Expanded production base in China now coming onstream and plans to expand in UK also. Dividend payer. Attrader Burford Capital They provide finance for litigations which is a market in flux. Historically, they have been generating 25% IRR on their investments. Litigation business is uncorrelated with rest of economy which should reduce risk in portfolio. Ample room to compound capital as market is still growing. Credit: Hydrus IG Index UK Based spread betting operator with exceptional customer service. They were hit by potential new regulations however they are diversifying into traditional brokerage businesses (SIPP, ISAs). That should improve stickiness of revenues and reduce necessity to constantly recruit new clients. High returns on capital, good management. Like the CEO. Credit: APAD Amadeus Spanish market leader in processing travel transactions. More people traveling due to cheap flights, growing middle class and wealth generation in Asia. Sticky revenues with potential to grow at 6% in line with market growth. Credit: Terry Smith) AppleGreen Irish forecourt retailer acquiring petrol stations from oil majors exiting the business. They refurbish forecourts, rebrand them, add food & cloth retailing. Forecourt retailing is high margin business as customers would pay more for buying snacks in the middle of motorway. Management owns a decent stake. Credit: Wexboy) MSAB-B Swedish mobile forensics software provider competing in a niche market with only few other companies. Their competitive edge is number of devices supported by their software. Law enforcement agencies need a reliable platform to quickly extract data from suspect device and decipher messages. 50+% recurring revenues. Mobile forensics market is growing at a decent rate. Lauders HOC Gold and silver miner with South American operations. FTSE 250 and pays a dividend. Reducing debt and as precious metal prices increase so do their profits. If 2018 is financially rocky as some say it will be then HOC should do well. My largest holding by a mile. SDX "Roulette wheel" to some but my 2nd largest holding and I think they will do well in 2018. Egyptian and Moroccan operations of mainly gas. Current drilling has been on a roll & coming up roses. The share-price is under-performing and hopefully will be rerated in 2018. MSLH Been a good year for this company that offers natural stone and concrete hard landscaping products, supplying the construction, home improvement and landscape markets. They are also into street furniture that protects public from some of the terror events we have witnessed over recent years. I believe they will continue to do well and acquire select businesses to expand their offerings. Current offer: 437.30p ITV Think everyone knows about this broadcaster. Been weak lately but the recent Disney/Time Warner news among other things has shifted momentum a bit and a new CEO next year may all mean a better year for the company. Pays dividends and special dividends. Always a chance of a bid/merger with them too. Been mentioned countless times in the past and no doubt will continue. Current offer: 166p BVXP No need to really comment on them here. Everyone pretty much knows the deal and why they are a great BTFD opportunity if the chance ever comes. Current offer: 2550p APAD FEVR a new international brand, creative management, minimal costs, pays a divi, needs to succeed in the US) BOO stunning CEO combination, huge barriers to entry, disruptive, buy direct from the brand not through an on-line shop, big spend but not difficult, no negatives ABC products gain value the more they are used, becoming the gorilla on the block but high costs developing their systems - need to prove success in developing software and distribution centres) BVXP niche technology, hard to compete with, very low costs, losing an income stream, needs to succeed with Siemens collaboration TSTL novel, low cost technology in an important area, international expansion is important, will probably be sold on in a year or two if it continues to be successful thelongandtheshortandthetall Googl (class A): revenue and profit growing growing at approximately 25% per year. Basically no debt. Huge cash reserves - i expect a tax ease on the repatriation of foreign held currency plus the US tax cut will benefit profits. There are too many strings to googles bow to list here. Heres just a couple: Waymo is the most advanced in the driverless car market, youtube, 90% of mobiles run on android etc. Also there is the potential for spin offs. Facebook: basically no debt. Vertual monopoly - Throwing off cash. Regular acquisitions. Super targetted advertising that advertisers will pay a lot for. Slowing user growth but they are now in the monitisation stage. Will benefit from us tax cut and possible repatriation of foreign reserves. Idp: small cosmetics and life science business. Very low debt. Sp way under recent placing. Growing list of brands. All products manufactured by third paries - no need for expensive plant or property. Products are advertised via social media. They are very inventive with their product designs. Usually combining two or three products in one. Ie fake tan and cellulite reducing effects, skin whitening cream with spf50 Caution there is a snake oil feeling that is growing in me. SOM: small company manufacturing industrial concrete levelling machines. Basically no debt and growing cash reserves. World leader in this very niche part of the construction industry. I can see Somero being bought by one of the big boys one day. Should also benefit from us tax cut. Does require continued world commercial construction projects. Cake: slow but steady growing cafe/bakery. Clear plan for more store roll outs - funded internally. Basically no debt and growing cash reserves. No need for huge capital outlays. Valhamos DOTD Dotmailer product has a strong position with ecommerce platforms such as Magento. Growing international presence in US and Far East and recent acquisition enables move to omni-channel communication and customer engagement including live chat and social media. NEXS Recent IPO (July 2017), infrastructure services to housebuilding and commercial sectors, looks set to benefit from government commitment to build 300k houses p.a. Company has 2 division; Tamdown infrastructure and civil engineering services (customers 9 of top 10 largest UK housebuilders) and TriConnex designs, installs, connects utility networks (started in 2011 has shown profit CAGR of 70% since 2013) D4T4 Growth driver is Customer experience (CX) /Customer data platform software through the Celebrus offering along with necessity to meet GPRD requirements next year. Contracts delays impacted recent interims (and share price accordingly) but recent director purchases support company claims to be still on course to meet full year targets. CAKE Patisserie is almost metronomic in its growth and profit performance with increase in ROIC over the years. 199 outlets and targeting 20 new stores this current year each one expected to be profitable from day one with average payback under 2 years. SGP Recent launch of Superdry 5.0 Global Digital Brand strategy marks the next chapter in the company’s development with growth in ecommerce and continued roll-out and investment in US and China. Haywards26 REDS – Software Solutions and Smart Building systems integrators, providing design, implementation of networks, managed services. Contract wins in 2017 with big name clients, which has confirmed the business traction being gained. BHRD – a digital marketing group including marketing, technology and e-commerce businesses. Headed by experienced marketing Chairman (Peter Scott ). Profitable with strong growth potential. Business appears to be gaining traction cross selling between various group entities with new large name client wins of late. Buy and build strategy. BLVN – board removed in 2017 and replaced by the largest shareholder (COC), who have removed the executive directors and turned the company into a holding entity, with two oil projects. Both pre commercialisation, but ETINDE (Cameroon) potentially a very significant discovery. Partnered with New Age/Lukoil further drilling to occur in 2018 to sure up the resource. I expect COC to at this point then to sell the remaining ETINDE asset and return cash to shareholders. Market cap underpinned by Cash on balance sheet. SRC – a relatively new entity. Operates new and existing construction material assets in places where opportunity is greatest. Main asset is a quarry owned in Guernsey and has the market share supplying materials from the quarry. In addition there has been two recent concrete producers acquired in 2017. Experienced board. Buy and build strategy. Profitable and expect further significant growth . Market cap underpinned by Quarry asset. *RHL – is an engineering business offering design, manufacture, installation, maintenance and decommissioning services, specializing in the nuclear sector. They have had a tough few years due to an Energy to Waste construction contract nightmare. Following this the business has evolved its offering from the more complex and risky construction aspect to nuclear related manufacturing and decommissioning services. Iomax99 Hold all five, final two are LTBH, and have held for quite some time. Part time investor/serial lurker. MGP - leader in its field IT system for radiologists), forecast CARG of 20% for next 3/4 years, with gross margins not far short of 50%. FUTR - Physical/digital specialist publishing, significantly transformed over last couple of years to focus on maximising overall online proposition. BUR - Market leader in litigation finance, strong track record, industry still at an early stage. HL. - Leading fintech in UK online platform space, ambitious plans for further expansion, yet barely scratching the surface of target UK savings market. CVSG - Leading veterinary consolidator, still only have c 14% of UK market (strong acquisition pipeline), strong cross selling of services/continuing to add new/complementary services/ expanding overseas, recent correction overdone. Piedro TSTL - makes hospital disinfectants based on chlorine dioxide. Rest of world sales now approaching 50% of total. Takeover red herring. SRT - involved in marine domain awareness technology. Produce their own equipment and sell complete systems. Very jam tomorrow company waiting for big contracts to arrive so may not make it into the 2019 pick OCN - 75% Brazilian maritime and 25% Investment portfolio. Originally 50:50 the Brazilian part showing all the growth having 2 container terminals and 70 odd tugboats CAM - Principal business is tea followed by nuts and avocados. Seems to have passed through a phase of diworsification getting involved in engineering and banking which are gradually being sold off. MGNS - construction company with a difference. Passed through a period of bad contracts but now more careful preferring many small contracts rather than going for the big one. wskill ISAT leader in maritime sat coms now doing same in airplanes ,equipment best in class fallen back due to investment required to launch additional sats 12 months from now it will have completed most of the expenditures and be receiving income from investment. IGG Also best provider of spread betting and now branching into stockbroking ,with Barclays fiasco will soon pick up steam excellent divi. FLX cyber protection with own software just won a new contract after spending a week in DD having its software hacked it won the contract against stiff competition. HUM gold miner just had its first gold pour full production 130k Oz per year. IDP cosmetics brand just building a portfolio of products. dacian XLM - at the core, they trawl the internet for gamblers and pass them on to casino operators who in turn reward xlm with a cut from the profits. XPD - they're trucking uk frock to eastern Europe and back. A buy and build in a fragmented sector. And they're not bloody truckers, they call themselves freight forwarders ( fancy words for truckers, really :-). FLTA - they're cleaning deep frying oil, in restaurants. Yikes, dirty work. And I can't believe that people do actually pay for that. NTQ - tiny engineer supplying drilling equipment to US shale. Enterprise value (market cap minus cash) circa £3 mil. PCIP - not quite sure what they're up to, something to do with protecting customers' details when making a payment over the phone. RP19 VLE - A conservatively ran company which buys struggling companies, turns them around and sells them on (think Melrose). Share price largely discounts realistic valuations for VLE's investments. Of the current portfolio, Impetus Automotive would seem to offer the most promise. RFX - Northern company with 4 key business segments - foreign currency exchange, pawnbroking loans, buying and selling precious metals and retailing second hand and new jewellery. 120 stores with targeted expansion plans and a small but growing online presence. ASH - Government policy has meant that there have been historic barriers to the company developing its considerable pipeline in the development of extra care and supported living provision. Recent joint venture with Morgan Sindall should unlock the delivery of this pipeline. ASH are also developing a presence in the modular building sector (houses, education facilities, site offices, health care etc) which I view as a growth area (Morgan Sindall also operate in this space). DRV - Company providing engineering and construction consultancy services (planning, project management, dispute resolution etc). Acquired badly and diversified too much. However, would now seem to be a better focussed and more streamlined business. There has been a lot of M&A activity in this sector over the past year or so. FFX - Payments service provider to retail and corporate clients. Excellent TrustPilot reviews. High operational gearing and recent move into SME banking sector. MasterCard also recently given full membership status to FFX. Relatively straight talking narrative from the CEO is also welcomed. che7win TXP: oiler with lots of potential - very undervalued compared to TrInidad peers, will drill 10 wells first half 2018, I view lowish risk. TRIN: another Trinidad oiler with ambitions to grow fast from 3000 bopd - cash flow positive. IDP: in beauty and cosmetics - Skinny Tan range established and new ROOTS hair growth range - selling well. More product launches expected in a busy H1 2018. Low PEG valuation. IMM: finishing Lupus drug trial around now - multibagger potential if successful in short term. FDA fast track designation. SGP: Supergroup - online growth as fast as BOO for a fraction of the price. DiscoDave4 AHT - Ashtead Group is a FTSE 100 plant hire company which operates in the UK as A Plant and in the USA as Sunbelt. It is the second largest plant hire company in the US and generates 86% of its income from North America. It currently has 7% of the US market and is targeting 15% by 2021. Growth will be via acquisitions and organic. Its total earnings have already grown five-fold in the last 5 years and IMO they are expert at timing the cyclical nature of the sector. It is a highly leveraged business so beware. The BOD are very knowledgeable and experienced. Just announced a £500m share buyback programme. Forecast PE 16 and PEG 0.9. BUR - Burford Capital is an AIM listed finance and investment management firm which is primarily focussed on litigation finance. This is (IMO) a unique business which operates in a niche area of expertise and as a result has significant barriers to entry. The CEO (Bogart) knows the business and the sector inside out. Generally analysts fail to be able to value the business and consistently under estimate earnings. Forecast Yr End PE 14.9 and PEG 0.2, 2018 analysts forecast reduced growth with a PE of 21 and PEG -0.8 (how far out will they be!). ENQ - Enquest is a FTSE Small Cap Oil and Gas development and production company. Their business model is simply to acquire assets that the majors do not want anymore and turn them into high yield assets. They have just commissioned a $2.9 billion FPSO for the Kraken oil field of which they have a 70% stake and which will double their total oil production in 2018.They have high net debt but they will be generating sufficient free cash flow to start to pay down their debt during next year. The CEO and family hold about 18% of the shares. Forecast PE 4, PEG 0.02 (?). GAW - Games Workshop is in the style of its previous CEO/Chairman, a FTSE Small Cap that continues to make the best fantasy miniatures in the world, distributes them and sells them at a very nice profit to adults that live only to play with toys!. Three quarters of its sales are overseas so its benefiting from a weak pound. A new product line will be rolling out in 2018 which will extend its successful 40k game across more gaming categories particularly in the US. Forecast PE 15 and PEG 0.2. TAP - Taptica is an AIM listed mobile advertising technology company which is now also expanding into video. Most of its turnover is in the US and continued strong growth is anticipated with margins constantly improving over time. It is rated below fair value IMO but this may also be as a consequence of being an Israeli company. Forecast PE 12, PEG 0.6. Cragside SQZ: Oil sector is a good place to be with rising fossil fuel prices, and this company has valuable oil/gas producing assets in the North Sea and £30m cash. The deal with BP should enhance production seven fold with little cash outlay. Too good to be true? We will find out in 2018 GMD : I am expecting this company to rise further from the ashes. With plenty of cash, and 2 large shareholders, the available shares are limited. A decent trading update should be made in the next couple of weeks due to new consoles, and games released. I like the recent appointment of James Shinehouse as director, and am expecting prolonged growth particularly from its Events, Esports & Digital businesses. KRS: This is definitely not a Value Growth share. More of a speculation on the ability of Dave Reeves to deliver shareholder returns from Australian gold, and Manganese in Togo. Boom or bust with this one but it may be flat in 2018 as it could take at least 2 or 3 years to come to fruition. WSG: A major project in the Middle East has recently catapulted the price of this services and security company which has been loss making for over 5 years. Am expecting more from this transformational deal. D4T4: Data solutions is the business, with increasing turnover and more importantly profits. Modest P/E ratio about half of its peers. Recently announced "Contract wins in key vertical sectors". Four different directors buying decent amounts in November 2017. fozzie SQZ - Ahem, please forgive me one oiler! I hold 7 at the moment and have very high expectations of the sector in 2018 as the rising oil price and cost savings made in the lean years propel earnings. £300m deal with BP will complete in the middle of next year and production is expected to rise 7 fold to 21000bopd. No debt. No debt! Latest IC says SQZ has 'the potential for rapid, near-term equity growth. Buy.' RFX - I have held for over a year but was given an unexpected opportunity to buy recently when following excellent results a seller appeared amid profit taking generally. Stunning results at the end of November almost achieving forecast FY in the first half. Foreign currency broking and trad pawnbroking are its business. Well diversified and cash generative, earnings are growing strongly, oh and they have net cash of £13.4m which is nice ;o) ESG - is a pioneering digital financial transactions technology company. A recent joint partnership with Mastercard has seen its brand Homesend incorporated into Mastercard itself with a target market of $22 trillion. Homesend is a scaleable low cost model. They have signed up 15 banks this year, 5 in the last 2 months. Cash raise recently 'The Board of eServGlobal believes that the proceeds will allow HomeSend to better focus on the far larger than expected growth opportunities in the cross-border banking market' i like that bit! AEO - is a live events specialist. The two founders left the board recently so a new team is in place, 'The board is very supportive of the new management team and believes that the Company is well positioned and has the resources and skills to build a much stronger business'. Results on Nov 10 were reassuring with a healthy balance sheet, at 30p £2.7M mcap but with £1.9M in cash. Divi cut back 'in anticipation of future development initiatives to build shareholder value' SPSY - Spectra Systems manufactures products for industries that include brand authentication, document and mail processing, drug discovery, textile services and digital optical media. I began buying several years ago at sub 20p and have recently bought a lot more in the 80p area. Share price is lower now than in October when company gave an 'ahead' statement. Should be a trading update in early Jan 18. There has been a seller from 108 down to current 80p area. Katie Potts Herald IT took a decent slug at 100p earlier in the year. If last divi payment was maintained we would have a yield of 10% here, wishful thinking perhaps. Dibbs TAP, great performer this year and still modestly valued. Suffering as it always has from a foreign AIM stock penalty but they haven’t put a foot wrong. With the Tremor acquisition due to boost earnings along with expansion into new geographical territories I can’t see any reason not to pick TAP again. Mobile advertising is forecast to grow rapidly for several years yet and if the market does apply a higher multiple then a share price far higher is quite possible. WJG, another 2017 pick, the developer and constructor of student accommodation also now moving into the build to rent market. Still on a modest PE and with excellent forward earnings visibility which gives investors comfort and for my mind should give decent scope for earnings upgrades. A bit boring again but if the market turns it will hopefully hold up pretty well. MGP, new to the market this year and little loved thus far. Funnily, detractors seem to forget that the shares are still 50% up from the float price. Since opening at a healthy premium the shares have traded side ways with a few large shareholders moving on and recently Old Mutual emerging with a large holding that they continue to add to, now above 18%. MGP are leaders in teleradiology with their Nighthawk service offering hospitals very rapid reads of scans that they can’t hope to match in house. Radiologists unsurprisingly seem to be preferring to work from home, picking their hours rather than work in a pretty grim NHS hospital. As more leave the NHS’s ability to offer a decent service themselves will reduce so it seems that in time MGP will pick up more and more trusts. The shares aren’t cheap but quality rarely is. FFX, A relatively new holding for me. FFX looks to be gathering momentum with a significant acquisition completed this summer. Transaction volumes are set to rise rapidly and at the same time FFX’s fees are set to increase. House broker forecasts suggest a period of very rapid growth is ahead. IDP, A volatile share price and high Muppet concentration on the BB don’t do this one many favours but this company’s share price could do very well if the management can execute competently. Skinny Tan has performed very well and looks set to continue to grow, especially if they can make inroads into the US market where they have made what looks a good appointment. Roots, their hair care products are looking promising with good sales building through Superdrug. Plenty of execution challenges/ risks but then again that applies to most companies. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
31/12/2017 21:23	dibbs: I know I don’t contribute anything to this thread but when I get a chance it is a favourite to look in on. I greatly appreciate the thoughts of the main contributors. After a great year this year I have to say I’m looking to 2018 with much lower expectations. The market has been good for so long with Bitcoin mania illustrating that all rational thought has left the building in certain areas of the market. On the other hand there are stocks that appear to have the potential to maintain rapid growth so in theory their share prices could still appreciate. As they say though, a rising tide carries all ships higher but the converse tends also to apply so if we do see a correction even the stocks growing earnings will still take a hit. I’m planning to remain invested but not so fully so I can in theory buy into a wobble to make a bit back on a rebound. I retain many of the same holdings as I did a year or more ago so my 2018 picks feature some of the same stocks as for 2017. TAP, great performer this year and still modestly valued. Suffering as it always has from a foreign AIM stock penalty but they haven’t put a foot wrong. With the Tremor acquisition due to boost earnings along with expansion into new geographical territories I can’t see any reason not to pick TAP again. Mobile advertising is forecast to grow rapidly for several years yet and if the market does apply a higher multiple then a share price far higher is quite possible. WJG, another 2017 pick, the developer and constructor of student accommodation also now moving into the build to rent market. Still on a modest PE and with excellent forward earnings visibility which gives investors comfort and for my mind should give decent scope for earnings upgrades. A bit boring again but if the market turns it will hopefully hold up pretty well. MGP, new to the market this year and little loved thus far. Funnily, detractors seem to forget that the shares are still 50% up from the float price. Since opening at a healthy premium the shares have traded side ways with a few large shareholders moving on and recently Old Mutual emerging with a large holding that they continue to add to, now above 18%. MGP are leaders in teleradiology with their Nighthawk service offering hospitals very rapid reads of scans that they can’t hope to match in house. Radiologists unsurprisingly seem to be preferring to work from home, picking their hours rather than work in a pretty grim NHS hospital. As more leave the NHS’s ability to offer a decent service themselves will reduce so it seems that in time MGP will pick up more and more trusts. The shares aren’t cheap but quality rarely is. FFX, A relatively new holding for me. FFX looks to be gathering momentum with a significant acquisition completed this summer. Transaction volumes are set to rise rapidly and at the same time FFX’s fees are set to increase. House broker forecasts suggest a period of very rapid growth is ahead. IDP, A volatile share price and high Muppet concentration on the BB don’t do this one many favours but this company’s share price could do very well if the management can execute competently. Skinny Tan has performed very well and looks set to continue to grow, especially if they can make inroads into the US market where they have made what looks a good appointment. Roots, their hair care products are looking promising with good sales building through Superdrug. Plenty of execution challenges/ risks but then again that applies to most companies. Wishing all a very Happy and healthy New Year! Dibbs Read Full Thread Follow Reply
30/12/2017 10:58	apad: Comments to date: Multibagger ARC Been in ARC for several years ago now. Stickiness of blue chip customers (only 2 customer losses over 10 years apparently), strong cash generation rate, no debt, hold about £2.6m cash, and now dividend paying (progressive policy indicated). New products in trials at 5 Tier 1 banks and participant in Symphony and OpenMAMA forums which could widen the addressable market. Very conservative, low key management and accounting style - the typical boring but solid company with high barriers to entry. Management seem quietly confident. IDEA Big UK player in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) software space with several high profile customers across health, banking, rail, air transportation etc. About 160 NHS Trusts and all the Scottish NHS Trusts use them. Also 8 out of top 10 accounting groups use them.Growing upwards of 20%+ year on year. Solid track record of integrating acquisitions, paying down manageable debt and dividend paying. IQE Strong IP portfolio, proven tech capability and strong backing from Welsh government, massive expansion of manufacturing capacity in train and oversubscribed £100m recent placing. Technology has high barriers to entry and long lead times for competitors to try and catch up. I expect it to be acquired for the tech/IP in due course.I missed the ARM story, but won't miss this one. High PE stock - for cutting edge tech PE is the wrong metric, though not sure which metric ever makes sense. LTG Very strong track record of Andrew Brode (in particular) and Jonathan Satchell who own about 30-40% of the company. Strong suite of customisable products, complementary strategic acquisitions and excellent geographic spread. High US income through Rustici acquisition (may benefit from Trump's tax reforms). Online/elearning market can only get bigger. Successful ongoing delivery of a massive UK civil service contract (in conjunction with KPMG) could be a reference customer for further Whitehall contracts given Brexit. Serviceable debt and dividend paying. Intention to develop into a 100 million business (having upped target from a 50 million business). CYAN Looks like at the threshold of a turnaround in fortunes with smart metering space (electricity, gas, water and now IoT) developing at a rapid pace across the world. About $100m purchase orders signed over the last year or so across a number of countries - Sweden,UK, Iran, Bangladesh, India. Works with local/in country partners who do the implementation and CYAN provides the technology/communication solutions and is partnering a number of meter manufacturers, as the tech is meter agnostic. Excellent suite of communication technologies which are able to address different economic market segments, local terrain and built up area issues and at differing points of the technology maturity cycle. Expects to get at least £25m from UK "not spot coverage" in UK smart meter rollout. Moving from a hardware to a recurrent software, multi year, per meter revenue model (not very different from ARM model broadly speaking). John Cronin, Chairman has a good track record of several successful exits/sell ons (about £650m according to company website). Directors including JC took one year salaries in equity...and have bought the dips/propped up the share price. redartbmud Arc Maiden dividend announced, which indicates that the business is maturing as a strong business generating good cash returns. Plenty of scope for it’s products in the market. Vanl Undemanding rating and an active shareholder who is the former holder. He will keep the management honest and certainly on their toes to outperform. Outside chance of a takeover. Ltg Expect more activity. The statement below says it all. When the AIM-listed firm entered the market in 2013 it sought to achieve run-rate revenues of £50m and EBITDA margins of 20% by the end of 2018, but Learning Technologies' 2017 interim results revealed that the company had hit targets twelve months ahead of schedule. However, as part of Tuesday's event, the e-learning group outlined a plan focused on doubling run-rate revenues to £100m with an EBITDA in excess of £25m by the end of 2020. Learning Technologies said it planned to achieve the new objectives through a combination of strong organic growth paired with strategic acquisitions that complemented its current business model. Rpc operating in a fragmented market, ripe for further consolidation. The tintins marked it down on the number of acquisitions in the year. I think that they are wrong, and expect more activity and further organic and acquisition based growth in 2018. Cost savings along the line. Rws – Unfortunately keeps issuing paper, but continuing to build a niche business in a growing market. The purchase of Moravia is transformational. Mattjos AAZ Low cost of production & AISC, valued at 25% of the CAPEX to date on the Gedabek plant & equipment. Sat on a huge, mainly unexplored, acreage although previous Russian data (as given in the IPO docs) gives a strong indication what is really present. New Director of Geology (Stephen Westhead ex. Polyus) is really starting to make his mark and has already found the previously unknown Ugur deposit right on their doorstep. The CEO has leant his own cash to the company on two occasions rather than dilute the precious equity - a rare event for an AIM miner. NED Prof. John Monhemius is one of the worlds leading authorities on pm processing techniques & has been instrumental in their SART plant and then how to process the complex ore using combination of Agitation then Flotation or, Flotation then Agitation. They have a surplus of both oxide and sulphide ore now stacked at Gedabek in case of any harsh winter weather this year. The underground exploration activities at Gedabek this winter and the fan drilling scheduled for early 2018 are likely to prove the catalysts for a big increase in JORC resources. Meanwhile, the healthy cashflow keeps reducing the debt (on plan). News over the next 3 months needs to be watched very closely. Against all this, the state mining entity AZERGOLD has a gold mine close by but lacks the technical skills to develop it effectively .. A bid for the entirety of AAZ is a possibility and at even 3x current price is dirt cheap STAR It has some persuasive tracking technology and I believe will reach a point in 2018 where recurring revenues cover their costs. The business model looks very appealing & so too the potential for rapid scale-up. STCM It is simply far too cheap and looks a perfect takeover target in the acquisitive global cement market. A unique dry-line operation in Kaz. SYM It is a long term serial underperformer but, now has a strong major investor (Somerston) with a seat on the board and they are turning this company from a lifestyle operation into a solid business. Looks likely to pay a maiden divi next year. Strong marketing/branding and big distribution pipeline in place to push new products. Strong Bed'n'Isa activity by Directors this year. WTI It is probably the riskiest one but, Orion seem strongly persuaded of the opportunity and the recent acquisition of Katumba from a reluctant but forced seller (Intrepid Mines) looks transformational. Highly leveraged to copper price so a mining play on EV adoption. Gsbmba99 Arcontech (ARC) for reasons Janeann mentioned. Shares are good value. They get paid in advance. Lots of cash on the balance sheet. Have already stated they have enough cash so, in absence of any M&A, could show interesting dividend growth. New product currently in trials. Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB1) 2H17 gross mortgage lending has been up high single digits YoY and UKFinance/Council of Mortgage Lenders recently upgraded 2017 and 2018 forecasts (albeit modestly). New technology being introduced to reduce paperwork which should hopefully benefit adviser productivity. Opening up of product switch market (new mortgage with same lender) means market opportunity £90bn (or +30%) larger than 18 months ago. New direct to consumer advertising commences in 2018. Despite recent senior hires and advertising, no change to forecasts whereas most companies would have reduced as a result of "investing" for growth. Makes me think things are going a bit better than previously planned. Liontrust (LIO) They bought the sustainable investments business from Alliance Trust in April. They hired a new head of distribution about a year ago. They've hired a fixed income manager and strategist who, judging by the Kames funds on Trustnet that changed manager the day before LIO announced their arrival, used to co-manage Kames Strategic Global Bond ($638 AuM according to Trustnet), Kames Strategic Bond (£320m), Kames High Yield Bond (£908m) and Kames Sterling Corporate Bond (£604m). If 10% of his prior clients follow him, could lead to nice amount of net new money. Also, Reade Griffith (Polygon) owns 10%. Jarvis Securities (JIM) I am hoping for EPS growth attractively into double digits for duration of interest rate raising cycle. See my previous comments on thread. Premier Asset Management (PAM) It's a retail focused asset manager that distributes almost exclusively through IFAs. They have a bit of a niche in the "income" category and within that in multi-asset funds. From the admission document (pdf page 17): "The IA has identified multi-asset and income funds as long term beneficiaries of changes in the UK pensions and retirement market and AUM invested in the multi-asset market in the UK has grown by a CAGR of 20.2 per cent. over the past 10 years." For reference, 1.202^10-1=529%. Every quarter since fiscal Q313 has seen positive net new money. The distribution platform is powerful with >£500m of gross sales in each of last four quarters. Unfortunately, net sales over that period "only" £746m. The fact that a surprisingly large proportion of their customers are in pre-RDR funds means that revenue and costs are distorted. Net management fee (after payment of trail commission): £27.6m (FY15), £33.3m (FY16), £40.9m (FY17). Costs (excl. trail commission): £20m (FY15), £22.8m (FY16), £26.6m (FY17). Op margin (% net revenue excl trail commission): 27.5% (FY15), 31.5% (FY16), 35% (FY17). That's 750bps of additional margin created through net revenue rising faster than net costs. Because it's retail oriented, I can track progress through the fund fact sheets (which represent 94% of corporate AuM). AuM increased at 13/23 funds in Jun, 19/24 in Jul, 17/23 in Aug, 16/23 in Sep, 22/23 in Oct and 16/23 in Nov despite most of the funds paying dividends very regularly (sometimes monthly). AuM movement: -£8.4m (Jun), £120.1m (Jul), £75.6m (Aug), £68.5m (Sep), £181.3m (Oct) and £48.5m (Nov). The multi-asset series of funds were £2.884bn as at May and were £3.225bn as at Nov. Valuation not nearly as cheap as it was so return may be down to EPS growth. Janeann ACSO Global ticketing specialist providing technology to improve customer experience primarily in leisure attractions theme parks etc. Leader in its field. Started out to avoid queueing at theme parks and developed since. Large global customer base. Growing by both expansion and acquisition, and growth expected to continue. ARC Is a small niche player and provides solutions to managing real time market data - both software and consultancy. Number of very high profile clients with recurring revenue streams. Recently started paying dividends. LTG is a dividend paying company providing digital learning solutions and interactive media programmes to a broad range of clients including government. Aiming to grow by both broadening its range of products and clients across a broader geographic range as well as via acquisition. PRSM Software company specialising and leading the field in development of robotic process automation particularly of more routing back office tasks enabling the freeing up staff to do more productive tasks. Globally active in events and with a diverse range of high profile partners prsm is at the forefront of the developing technology. ZTF Specialist manufacturer of plastic foam for a very broad and diverse range of industries including sports, automotive & construction. Many specialist uses and complex production process. Recent deal with Nike. Expanded production base in China now coming onstream and plans to expand in UK also. Dividend payer. Attrader Burford Capital They provide finance for litigations which is a market in flux. Historically, they have been generating 25% IRR on their investments. Litigation business is uncorrelated with rest of economy which should reduce risk in portfolio. Ample room to compound capital as market is still growing. Credit: Hydrus IG Index UK Based spread betting operator with exceptional customer service. They were hit by potential new regulations however they are diversifying into traditional brokerage businesses (SIPP, ISAs). That should improve stickiness of revenues and reduce necessity to constantly recruit new clients. High returns on capital, good management. Like the CEO. Credit: APAD Amadeus Spanish market leader in processing travel transactions. More people traveling due to cheap flights, growing middle class and wealth generation in Asia. Sticky revenues with potential to grow at 6% in line with market growth. Credit: Terry Smith) AppleGreen Irish forecourt retailer acquiring petrol stations from oil majors exiting the business. They refurbish forecourts, rebrand them, add food & cloth retailing. Forecourt retailing is high margin business as customers would pay more for buying snacks in the middle of motorway. Management owns a decent stake. Credit: Wexboy) MSAB-B Swedish mobile forensics software provider competing in a niche market with only few other companies. Their competitive edge is number of devices supported by their software. Law enforcement agencies need a reliable platform to quickly extract data from suspect device and decipher messages. 50+% recurring revenues. Mobile forensics market is growing at a decent rate. Lauders HOC Gold and silver miner with South American operations. FTSE 250 and pays a dividend. Reducing debt and as precious metal prices increase so do their profits. If 2018 is financially rocky as some say it will be then HOC should do well. My largest holding by a mile. SDX "Roulette wheel" to some but my 2nd largest holding and I think they will do well in 2018. Egyptian and Moroccan operations of mainly gas. Current drilling has been on a roll & coming up roses. The share-price is under-performing and hopefully will be rerated in 2018. MSLH Been a good year for this company that offers natural stone and concrete hard landscaping products, supplying the construction, home improvement and landscape markets. They are also into street furniture that protects public from some of the terror events we have witnessed over recent years. I believe they will continue to do well and acquire select businesses to expand their offerings. Current offer: 437.30p ITV Think everyone knows about this broadcaster. Been weak lately but the recent Disney/Time Warner news among other things has shifted momentum a bit and a new CEO next year may all mean a better year for the company. Pays dividends and special dividends. Always a chance of a bid/merger with them too. Been mentioned countless times in the past and no doubt will continue. Current offer: 166p BVXP No need to really comment on them here. Everyone pretty much knows the deal and why they are a great BTFD opportunity if the chance ever comes. Current offer: 2550p APAD FEVR a new international brand, creative management, minimal costs, pays a divi, needs to succeed in the US) BOO stunning CEO combination, huge barriers to entry, disruptive, buy direct from the brand not through an on-line shop, big spend but not difficult, no negatives ABC products gain value the more they are used, becoming the gorilla on the block but high costs developing their systems - need to prove success in developing software and distribution centres) BVXP niche technology, hard to compete with, very low costs, losing an income stream, needs to succeed with Siemens collaboration TSTL novel, low cost technology in an important area, international expansion is important, will probably be sold on in a year or two if it continues to be successful thelongandtheshortandthetall Googl (class A): revenue and profit growing growing at approximately 25% per year. Basically no debt. Huge cash reserves - i expect a tax ease on the repatriation of foreign held currency plus the US tax cut will benefit profits. There are too many strings to googles bow to list here. Heres just a couple: Waymo is the most advanced in the driverless car market, youtube, 90% of mobiles run on android etc. Also there is the potential for spin offs. Facebook: basically no debt. Vertual monopoly - Throwing off cash. Regular acquisitions. Super targetted advertising that advertisers will pay a lot for. Slowing user growth but they are now in the monitisation stage. Will benefit from us tax cut and possible repatriation of foreign reserves. Idp: small cosmetics and life science business. Very low debt. Sp way under recent placing. Growing list of brands. All products manufactured by third paries - no need for expensive plant or property. Products are advertised via social media. They are very inventive with their product designs. Usually combining two or three products in one. Ie fake tan and cellulite reducing effects, skin whitening cream with spf50 Caution there is a snake oil feeling that is growing in me. SOM: small company manufacturing industrial concrete levelling machines. Basically no debt and growing cash reserves. World leader in this very niche part of the construction industry. I can see Somero being bought by one of the big boys one day. Should also benefit from us tax cut. Does require continued world commercial construction projects. Cake: slow but steady growing cafe/bakery. Clear plan for more store roll outs - funded internally. Basically no debt and growing cash reserves. No need for huge capital outlays. Valhamos DOTD Dotmailer product has a strong position with ecommerce platforms such as Magento. Growing international presence in US and Far East and recent acquisition enables move to omni-channel communication and customer engagement including live chat and social media. NEXS Recent IPO (July 2017), infrastructure services to housebuilding and commercial sectors, looks set to benefit from government commitment to build 300k houses p.a. Company has 2 division; Tamdown infrastructure and civil engineering services (customers 9 of top 10 largest UK housebuilders) and TriConnex designs, installs, connects utility networks (started in 2011 has shown profit CAGR of 70% since 2013) D4T4 Growth driver is Customer experience (CX) /Customer data platform software through the Celebrus offering along with necessity to meet GPRD requirements next year. Contracts delays impacted recent interims (and share price accordingly) but recent director purchases support company claims to be still on course to meet full year targets. CAKE Patisserie is almost metronomic in its growth and profit performance with increase in ROIC over the years. 199 outlets and targeting 20 new stores this current year each one expected to be profitable from day one with average payback under 2 years. SGP Recent launch of Superdry 5.0 Global Digital Brand strategy marks the next chapter in the company’s development with growth in ecommerce and continued roll-out and investment in US and China. Haywards26 REDS – Software Solutions and Smart Building systems integrators, providing design, implementation of networks, managed services. Contract wins in 2017 with big name clients, which has confirmed the business traction being gained. BHRD – a digital marketing group including marketing, technology and e-commerce businesses. Headed by experienced marketing Chairman (Peter Scott ). Profitable with strong growth potential. Business appears to be gaining traction cross selling between various group entities with new large name client wins of late. Buy and build strategy. BLVN – board removed in 2017 and replaced by the largest shareholder (COC), who have removed the executive directors and turned the company into a holding entity, with two oil projects. Both pre commercialisation, but ETINDE (Cameroon) potentially a very significant discovery. Partnered with New Age/Lukoil further drilling to occur in 2018 to sure up the resource. I expect COC to at this point then to sell the remaining ETINDE asset and return cash to shareholders. Market cap underpinned by Cash on balance sheet. SRC – a relatively new entity. Operates new and existing construction material assets in places where opportunity is greatest. Main asset is a quarry owned in Guernsey and has the market share supplying materials from the quarry. In addition there has been two recent concrete producers acquired in 2017. Experienced board. Buy and build strategy. Profitable and expect further significant growth . Market cap underpinned by Quarry asset. *RHL – is an engineering business offering design, manufacture, installation, maintenance and decommissioning services, specializing in the nuclear sector. They have had a tough few years due to an Energy to Waste construction contract nightmare. Following this the business has evolved its offering from the more complex and risky construction aspect to nuclear related manufacturing and decommissioning services. Iomax99 Hold all five, final two are LTBH, and have held for quite some time. Part time investor/serial lurker. MGP - leader in its field IT system for radiologists), forecast CARG of 20% for next 3/4 years, with gross margins not far short of 50%. FUTR - Physical/digital specialist publishing, significantly transformed over last couple of years to focus on maximising overall online proposition. BUR - Market leader in litigation finance, strong track record, industry still at an early stage. HL. - Leading fintech in UK online platform space, ambitious plans for further expansion, yet barely scratching the surface of target UK savings market. CVSG - Leading veterinary consolidator, still only have c 14% of UK market (strong acquisition pipeline), strong cross selling of services/continuing to add new/complementary services/ expanding overseas, recent correction overdone. Piedro TSTL - makes hospital disinfectants based on chlorine dioxide. Rest of world sales now approaching 50% of total. Takeover red herring. SRT - involved in marine domain awareness technology. Produce their own equipment and sell complete systems. Very jam tomorrow company waiting for big contracts to arrive so may not make it into the 2019 pick OCN - 75% Brazilian maritime and 25% Investment portfolio. Originally 50:50 the Brazilian part showing all the growth having 2 container terminals and 70 odd tugboats CAM - Principal business is tea followed by nuts and avocados. Seems to have passed through a phase of diworsification getting involved in engineering and banking which are gradually being sold off. MGNS - construction company with a difference. Passed through a period of bad contracts but now more careful preferring many small contracts rather than going for the big one. wskill ISAT leader in maritime sat coms now doing same in airplanes ,equipment best in class fallen back due to investment required to launch additional sats 12 months from now it will have completed most of the expenditures and be receiving income from investment. IGG Also best provider of spread betting and now branching into stockbroking ,with Barclays fiasco will soon pick up steam excellent divi. FLX cyber protection with own software just won a new contract after spending a week in DD having its software hacked it won the contract against stiff competition. HUM gold miner just had its first gold pour full production 130k Oz per year. IDP cosmetics brand just building a portfolio of products. dacian XLM - at the core, they trawl the internet for gamblers and pass them on to casino operators who in turn reward xlm with a cut from the profits. XPD - they're trucking uk frock to eastern Europe and back. A buy and build in a fragmented sector. And they're not bloody truckers, they call themselves freight forwarders ( fancy words for truckers, really :-). FLTA - they're cleaning deep frying oil, in restaurants. Yikes, dirty work. And I can't believe that people do actually pay for that. NTQ - tiny engineer supplying drilling equipment to US shale. Enterprise value (market cap minus cash) circa £3 mil. PCIP - not quite sure what they're up to, something to do with protecting customers' details when making a payment over the phone. RP19 VLE - A conservatively ran company which buys struggling companies, turns them around and sells them on (think Melrose). Share price largely discounts realistic valuations for VLE's investments. Of the current portfolio, Impetus Automotive would seem to offer the most promise. RFX - Northern company with 4 key business segments - foreign currency exchange, pawnbroking loans, buying and selling precious metals and retailing second hand and new jewellery. 120 stores with targeted expansion plans and a small but growing online presence. ASH - Government policy has meant that there have been historic barriers to the company developing its considerable pipeline in the development of extra care and supported living provision. Recent joint venture with Morgan Sindall should unlock the delivery of this pipeline. ASH are also developing a presence in the modular building sector (houses, education facilities, site offices, health care etc) which I view as a growth area (Morgan Sindall also operate in this space). DRV - Company providing engineering and construction consultancy services (planning, project management, dispute resolution etc). Acquired badly and diversified too much. However, would now seem to be a better focussed and more streamlined business. There has been a lot of M&A activity in this sector over the past year or so. FFX - Payments service provider to retail and corporate clients. Excellent TrustPilot reviews. High operational gearing and recent move into SME banking sector. MasterCard also recently given full membership status to FFX. Relatively straight talking narrative from the CEO is also welcomed. che7win TXP: oiler with lots of potential - very undervalued compared to TrInidad peers, will drill 10 wells first half 2018, I view lowish risk. TRIN: another Trinidad oiler with ambitions to grow fast from 3000 bopd - cash flow positive. IDP: in beauty and cosmetics - Skinny Tan range established and new ROOTS hair growth range - selling well. More product launches expected in a busy H1 2018. Low PEG valuation. IMM: finishing Lupus drug trial around now - multibagger potential if successful in short term. FDA fast track designation. SGP: Supergroup - online growth as fast as BOO for a fraction of the price. DiscoDave4 AHT - Ashtead Group is a FTSE 100 plant hire company which operates in the UK as A Plant and in the USA as Sunbelt. It is the second largest plant hire company in the US and generates 86% of its income from North America. It currently has 7% of the US market and is targeting 15% by 2021. Growth will be via acquisitions and organic. Its total earnings have already grown five-fold in the last 5 years and IMO they are expert at timing the cyclical nature of the sector. It is a highly leveraged business so beware. The BOD are very knowledgeable and experienced. Just announced a £500m share buyback programme. Forecast PE 16 and PEG 0.9. BUR - Burford Capital is an AIM listed finance and investment management firm which is primarily focussed on litigation finance. This is (IMO) a unique business which operates in a niche area of expertise and as a result has significant barriers to entry. The CEO (Bogart) knows the business and the sector inside out. Generally analysts fail to be able to value the business and consistently under estimate earnings. Forecast Yr End PE 14.9 and PEG 0.2, 2018 analysts forecast reduced growth with a PE of 21 and PEG -0.8 (how far out will they be!). ENQ - Enquest is a FTSE Small Cap Oil and Gas development and production company. Their business model is simply to acquire assets that the majors do not want anymore and turn them into high yield assets. They have just commissioned a $2.9 billion FPSO for the Kraken oil field of which they have a 70% stake and which will double their total oil production in 2018.They have high net debt but they will be generating sufficient free cash flow to start to pay down their debt during next year. The CEO and family hold about 18% of the shares. Forecast PE 4, PEG 0.02 (?). GAW - Games Workshop is in the style of its previous CEO/Chairman, a FTSE Small Cap that continues to make the best fantasy miniatures in the world, distributes them and sells them at a very nice profit to adults that live only to play with toys!. Three quarters of its sales are overseas so its benefiting from a weak pound. A new product line will be rolling out in 2018 which will extend its successful 40k game across more gaming categories particularly in the US. Forecast PE 15 and PEG 0.2. TAP - Taptica is an AIM listed mobile advertising technology company which is now also expanding into video. Most of its turnover is in the US and continued strong growth is anticipated with margins constantly improving over time. It is rated below fair value IMO but this may also be as a consequence of being an Israeli company. Forecast PE 12, PEG 0.6. Read Full Thread Follow Reply

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