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BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust “Strong start to the year for Latin America”

BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust plc (LON:BRLA) two experienced managers, Ed Kuczma and Sam Vecht, remain positive on the outlook for Latin American equities, with Kuczma commenting that the region..

ICG Enterprise Trust: Spotlight on secondaries

ICG Enterprise Trust plc (LON:ICGT) reported a further strong quarter of NAV growth to October 2021. One highlight from these results was secondary fund investments. This note reviews the strategic..

Pantheon International: 1H strong performance, actively managed portfolio

We believe a key message from these strong results is that Pantheon International plc (LON:PIN) platform (and so PIN’s investments) gives it the opportunity to capture the best PE opportunities..

Shield Therapeutics: PBMs have bought in to Accrufer

Shield Therapeutics plc (LON:STX) is a commercial-stage pharma company delivering specialty products that address patients’ unmet medical needs, with an initial focus on iron deficiency (ID). Following the US launch..

ICG Enterprise Trust: Spotlight on secondaries

ICG Enterprise Trust plc (LON:ICGT) reported a further strong quarter of NAV growth to October 2021. One highlight from these results was secondary fund investments. This note reviews the strategic..

Serinus Energy to benefit from higher oil & gas market prices (Analyst Q&A)

Serinus Energy plc (LON:SENX) is the topic of conversation when DirectorsTalk caught up with Research Director at Arden Partners Daniel Slater. How would you view Serinus Energy’s progress to-date? The..

CentralNic “generate reliable revenues based on subscriptions and serve diversified customer bases” says Zeus Capital

CentralNic Group plc (LON:CNIC) announced the acquisition of VGL Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (VGL), Germany’s largest provider of product comparison websites. The acquisition offers opportunities to cross-sell traffic, reduce traffic acquisition costs..

Inchcape adjusted PBT forecasts increased by 4.3% in FY22 by Zeus Capital

Performance has improved across all regions and Inchcape plc (LON:INCH) is making progress towards the objectives of its Accelerate strategy. We have increased our FY22 and FY23 PBT forecasts by..

Revolution Beauty acquisition of BH Cosmetics fully aligned with core values says Zeus Capital

Revolution Beauty Group plc (LON:REVB) has announced the acquisition of certain intellectual property assets and inventory of US cosmetics brand BH Cosmetics. BH Cosmetics: Badass with Heart (BH) Cosmetics was..

City of London Investment Group: Confirming an excellent first half

City of London Investment Group plc (LON:CLIG) has announced its interim results for 1H’22. Having announced a special dividend of 13.5p in its January trading statement, the main interest was..

Volta Finance: What Volta brings to investors

In this note, we highlight three things that Volta Finance Ltd (LON:VTA) has brought to both UK and European investors since it listed on the UK stock market on 28..

Real Estate Credit Investments: Vive la difference

In this note, we analysis Real Estate Credit Investments Ltd (LON:RECI) French exposures, which now account for 37% of commitments and three of the top-10 commitments. In particular, we review..

Cornerstone FS: Acquisition of Capital Currencies Ltd

Cornerstone FS plc (LON:CSFS) is a provider of forex, payment and currency risk management services, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) internationally. Central to our investment case..

CentralNic FY performance should be at or above the high end of market expectations

CentralNic Group plc (LON:CNIC) announced that trading year to date is above expectations. We upgrade our 2022 revenue and EBITDA forecasts by 15% and 4%, respectively. The company announced two..

Oakley Capital Investments: Educating on education

Following the strengths in education investments reported in Oakley Capital Investments Limited (LON:OCI) January trading statement, we note that the sector’s attractions include i) structural growth, ii) defensive revenue, iii)..

Cizzle Biotechnology: Strategic alliance in China

Cizzle Biotechnology plc (LON:CIZ), focused on cancer diagnostics, was spun out of the University of York to exploit the biomarker, variant CIZ1b, for early detection of different forms of lung..

Fidelity Japan Trust: Recent performance into perspective

As we outlined in our initiation, Fidelity Japan Trust plc (LON:FJV) has a long-term track record of outperforming UK markets, UK-listed competition, UK open-ended peers and Japanese benchmarks. The main..

CyanConnode: 3Q22 update: Smart meter showtime in India

CyanConnode Holdings plc (LON:CYAN) shipped 455,000 modules and 3,100 gateways in the first nine months, compared with 481,000 for the whole of FY21. 9M22 revenue came in at £6.8m, up..

Fintel digitisation of SaaS & subscription business improves earnings quality (Analyst Interview)

Fintel plc (LON:FNTL) is the topic of conversation when Robin Savage, Research Analyst at Zeus Capital joins DirectorsTalk Interviews. Robin talks us through the key points in the company pre-close..

Xpediator strong FY trading and positive outlook says Zeus Capital

Xpediator plc (LON:XPD) has issued a pre-close update for the year-end. Trading was strong through H2, and full year revenue will exceed £300m vs. our estimate for c.£250m. More importantly,..

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