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Arix Bioscience: Realising the valuation disconnect

Arix Bioscience plc (LON:ARIX) is a listed global venture capital (VC) company that presents an opportunity for institutional and retail investors to participate in the high risk-return profile of early-stage..

City of London Investment Group: Solid results, with surprise dividend increase

City of London Investment Group plc (LON:CLIG) has announced its full-year results for FY’20. As previously indicated, over a volatile year, FUM grew to $5.51bn. This led to a 4%..

Diurnal Group: Closely watching the regulators

Diurnal Group plc (LON:DNL) is a commercial-stage specialty pharmaceutical company focused on diseases of the endocrine system. Its products are targeting rare conditions where medical need is currently unmet, with..

Filta Group FOG is lifting

Filta Group Holdings plc (LON:FLTA) announced that it remained EBITDA-positive in 1H’20, despite most of its customers closing for part of the period. Business is returning as customers reopen, with..

JTC Group “delivering organic revenue growth at the top end of its guidance” says Zeus Capital

JTC Group plc (LON:JTC) interims confirm the strength of JTC’s business model and cash conversion, and management has restated its medium-term guidance. Revenue rose 15.2% to £53.7m (1H19: £46.6m), reflecting..

SimplyBiz Group “to provide investors with higher than market earnings growth” says Zeus Capital

SimplyBiz Group plc (LON:SBIZ) 1H results show digital acceleration as Defaqto and Intermediary Services have limited the impact of lockdown on revenue and EBITDA. Full year guidance remains at adj..

Volta Finance: Value added by active portfolio management

In this note, we explore Volta Finance plc (LON:VTA) portfolio positioning, increasing its CLO equity weight and reducing the CLO debt proportion. We show how this has helped deliver relative..

DWF Group “a stable platform on which to grow” says Zeus Capital

Post DWF Group plc (LON:DWF) results we consider key takeaways from the presentation and introduce our FY23 forecasts for the first time. YTD trading shows a clear recovery with the..

Surface Transforms A whole new level of contract winning

The most significant of several 2020 contract wins for Surface Transforms plc (LON:SCE) was announced on 14 September, from a new global customer, OEM 8. New order momentum is rising..

City of London Investment Group results beat Zeus Capital’s revenue forecast by 4.1%

City of London Investment Group plc (LON:CLIG) results have beaten Zeus expectations at revenue, EPS and DPS. On 14 July CLIG provided an update which revealed $338m of net inflows..

Surface Transforms “well positioned to deliver for the medium-term” says Zeus Capital

Surface Transforms plc (LON:SCE) has announced a major contract win with a manufacturer of EVs. Lifetime revenue is estimated to be £27.5m. Our 2021e revenue forecast is lifted by c.80%..

CentralNic Group “Codewise acquisition could raise monetisation market share to 37%” says Zeus Capital

CentralNic Group plc (LON:CNIC) has agreed to acquire Codewise, which consists of Zeropark, a monetisation business similar to Team Internet, and Voluum, a complementary online marketing SaaS provider. CentralNic is..

Real Estate Credit Investments: Improving returns on new opportunities

Real Estate Credit Investments Ltd (LON:RECI) released its quarterly investor update on 17 August and factsheet on 8 September. This note updates investors with the key developments in both these..

MORhomes: Low-risk issuer in a low-risk market

MORhomes (MH) is a pooled borrowing vehicle for housing associations (HAs). It offers its HA borrowers a flexible experience, rapid access to funds and potentially lower-cost funding. To its Social..

Neodecortech: Reassuringly robust

Neodecortech (NDT) shut its main plants for several weeks in March/April, but has traded strongly since reopening. We have cut our 2020 forecasts significantly, but see 2021 bouncing back close..

OnTheMarket “is playing a major role in the increase in residential property market activity” says Zeus Capital

OnTheMarket plc (LON:OTMP) has announced record leads to advertisers during August 2020 and increased cash balance of £10m. Key points are: OnTheMarket delivered more than 2m leads in August 2020..

DWF Group “has a strong platform well suited to the changing legal services market” says Zeus Capital

DWF Group plc (LON:DWF) final results were well flagged in the last trading update, with adjusted EBITDA coming in slightly ahead of our forecast. The decision to pay a final..

ICG Enterprise Trust Defensive growth: explaining downside resilience

We called our 6 July initiation Outperformance through every stage of cycle. In this note, we explore ICG Enterprise Trust plc (LON:ICGT) resilience to a downturn in more detail. We..

Flowtech Fluidpower improving revenue trends will see an improvement in profitability in H2

Flowtech Fluidpower plc (LON:FLO) interim results provide detail to the comprehensive update released in late July (28th). The business traded profitably in each month of H1 apart from April, despite..

Artificial Solutions navigating well through the COVID-19 pandemic

Artificial Solutions’ 2Q results confirmed high levels of resilience, posting YoY revenue growth of 22%. Within this metric, usage revenue continued to shine, up 80% YoY in 2Q, representing a..

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