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Searching for Big Obvious Objections

Richard looks beyond Morgan Sindall’s excellent numbers to find any Big Obvious Objections (or Boo’s) to investing in the business. Meanwhile, 11 shares make it through the 5 Strikes filters. In the last fortnight 21 companies have published annual reports and passed my minimum quality filter. Eleven of them achieved less than 3 strikes. 5

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The Trader: The Art of the Squeal

Michael looks at recent events and the importance of protection. Well, it turns out China wasn’t big enough to bully Trump into submission. But the bond market was. As my Grandad once told me… there’s always someone bigger. And in this instance, US Treasury Bills are far bigger than any President. The Federal Reserve doesn’t

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The great cake bubble of 2021

In 2021, traders gobbled up shares in cake store franchise Cake Box, then spewed them back out. Today, the company earns twice as much in turnover than it did in 2020, but the share price is not much higher. Bonanza! 5 Strikes Twenty-nine shares have published annual reports and passed my minimum quality filter in

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The Trader: Can the London Stock Exchange be saved?

“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.” Or so said Samuel Johnson back in 1777. Back in that time, high mortality rates and the disgusting living conditions suppressed the birth rate and life expectancy of native Londoners, and so the city grew only because of new migrants who replaced the

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An elephant that trots

They say elephants can’t gallop, but Pets At Home is an elephant in UK pet care, and it has been trotting along nicely. Richard takes a closer look at the pet store chain dominating the market. Of the ten shares to publish annual reports in the last fortnight and pass my Minimum Quality filter, four

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Small-Cap Spotlight Report: Filtronic (LSE: FTC)

Filtronic’s shares have defied AIM’s doom and gloom by rocketing 10-fold within three years. Maynard Paton reviews the multi-baggers announcements and asks whether we could have foreseen the huge gain. “London Stock Exchange boss warns AIM is under threat of collapse“ “London AIM market should be axed for failing to win tech floats, say think-tanks“

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The Trader: The beginning of the end?

Is this the beginning of the end? Michael looks at the future of the London Stock Exchange and Beeks Financial Cloud. Five years ago we marked the bottom of the Coronavirus crash. It went as quickly as it came. Boris put us in lockdown and markets rocketed. Helicopter money, furlough, work from home, and not

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Anatomy of a bubble

The trickle of annual reports in January and February has turned into a stream. It will soon be a flood. Eight companies have achieved less than three strikes. Richard takes a closer look at Dotdigital, which achieved only one strike last November. Of the 13 companies that published annual reports in the last fortnight, a

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