UK stocks look cheap on so many different valuation metrics, not just one or two, suggesting a robust, genuine investment opportunity is available to long-term investors. So why does nobody seem convinced?This article explores the scepticism surrounding the UK?s market?s attractive valuation and examines the underlying evidence to support it. Shares concludes UK stocks really are a compelling inve

This year, Apple (AAPL:NASDAQ) shares have fallen nearly 9%. If that doesn?t sound like a big deal, consider that for the world?s second most valuable company it means the loss of something like $230 billion. That?s the equivalent of an entire PepsiCo (PEP:NASDAQ), or Shell (SHEL) ? the UK?s current largest company ? plus a British American Tobacco (BATS) thrown in.On a one-year view, the stock ha

European stocks ended up largely in the green on Wednesday, as the FTSE 100 was given a leg-up by hopes of an imminent end to the UK recession.The FTSE 100 index closed up 24.36 points, 0.3%, at 7,772.17. The FTSE 250 ended down 1.29 points at 19,563.92, and the AIM All-Share closed up 0.78 of a point, or 0.1%, at 738.82.The Cboe UK 100 ended up 0.3% at 778.45, the Cboe UK 250 closed down 0.2% at

EV fantasy Project Titan ditched after more than a decade of rumourInvestors have been critical over Apple?s slow AI embraceCould this be a trigger for share price performance revival?An Apple (AAPL:NASDAQ) electric car always sounded terribly exciting, capturing the imagination of futurists, but rationality seems to have finally dawned at Cupertino. You can argue that Apple is a device maker, and

European equities pushed higher on Friday, with Standard Chartered the best-performing London blue-chip, though the FTSE 100?s gains were unable to stave off a weekly loss for it.At the end of the eighth Friday of 2024 so far, London?s large-cap benchmark has only mustered two weekly gains, suffering six losses.The market euphoria following Nvidia?s well-received results suggested a weekly gain wa

For the first time in years Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (SMT) investors are contemplating selling up and moving on. Over the past month, it is the most sold investment trust on the AJ Bell platform, accounting for 14.6% of all trust sales.This is almost unheard of, and it is meaningful too. For most of the 21st Century, long-term investors have backed Scottish Mortgage to the hilt, enjoying

While it was founded over a century ago as a general investment trust, since 1984 TR Property (TRY) has focused exclusively on analysing the UK and European property sectors looking for the most profitable and attractive companies.The FTSE 250 company currently has exposure to 12 European countries, including the UK, through holdings in over 60 stocks and funds as well as a small number of direct

Upgrade cycle continuesChristmas like-for-likes up 7.8%Card Factory heaps pressure on competitorsValue-focused greeting cards and gifts retailer Card Factory (CARD) has delivered yet another earnings guidance upgrade off the back of strong Christmas sales across stores and online.And with positive momentum building under CEO Darcy Willson-Rymer?s new strategy, Card Factory is heaping pressure on r

We are now a little more than a fortnight away from Christmas Day with TV adverts pushing festive products, high streets adorned with Christmas decorations and shops flush with discount offers.The so-called 'Golden Quarter' including Black Friday is the most hotly contested period of the year amongst retailers and those that suffer disappointing sales or resort to overly-promotional strategies typ

Shares in pub and hotel group Marston's (MARS) are down around 18% this year, despite the business continuing to recover from the pandemic and receiving a welcome boost from the chancellor's Autumn statement which froze alcohol duties until August 2024.After revealing full-year sales on 11 October, the company is due to update investors on earnings for the year to September on 5 December.Sales ros

THIS IS AN ADVERTISING FEATUREThe recent Taylor Swift tour is so vast that it has attracted its own branch of economics ? so-called ?Swiftonomics?. The arrival of a high profile popstar can cause a mini-economic boom in specific towns or regions as fans spend on hotels, food and leisure activities. Beyonce?s recent tour of Sweden was even blamed for driving up inflation.In general, the numbers are

Over the longer term, UK small caps have historically outperformed their larger cap brethren, but prevailing investor sentiment towards smaller companies remains poor due to stubborn inflation, higher interest rates and recessionary fears. It won't be like this all the time.One smart way to gain exposure to the asset class ahead of an eventual rally, with a turn in inflation among the likely catal

Belfast-based digital services business Kainos (KNOS) has high-quality metrics in spades, and Shares believes the stock offers long-term upside. In its most recent financial year (to March 2023), the company demonstrated return on capital employed, operating margins and return on equity of more than 40%, 14% and 35%, according to data from Stockopedia.Yet the shares are trading on a March 2024 pri

Resilient first half against tough comparativesStrong summer trading on success of Barbie and OppenheimerReiterates full year revenue and profit expectationsPremium cinema group Everyman Media (EMAN) said the resounding box office success of Barbie and Oppenheimer led to strong summer trading leaving it confident of meeting full year expectations.Unfortunately, both revenue and adjusted EBITDA (ea

Recent weeks have seen a couple of encouraging economic data points for investors betting on the resilience of the UK consumer.Second-quarter GDP (gross domestic product) grew at a faster rate than expected, even as interest rates have risen, pushing up mortgage costs on top of rising food and energy bills.Wage growth also surprised to the upside at 8.2% in the second quarter, a new record and wel

Shares in Moonpig (MOON) have rallied 44% to 163.6p year-to-date with the online greetings cards-to-gifting platform delivering solid trading and avoiding the downgrades sceptical investors expected.Shareholder excitement will be tempered by the fact the shares are trading more than 50% below their 350p, February 2021 initial public offering price.One of the retail sector's most-shorted stocks, in

Canaccord analyst Karl Burns has highlighted Moonpig's strong market shareBeliever in the capital light model and flagged strong customer retention Shares well below 350p at which they floated in 2021Canaccord Genuity analyst Karl Burns has noted Moonpig (MOON) capital light, cash generative and trading on an undemanding valuation.'In research on the company following its recent full year results

Expects low-digit single figure growth in first half 2024Full launch of Moonpig PlusScaled up technology team to 250Investors gave online greetings card seller Moonpig (MOON) the 'benefit of the doubt' this morning, lifting its shares by 4% despite the company reporting a 6.9% fall in adjusted pre-tax profit to £48 million for the financial year to 30 April 2023.Group revenue however was up 5.2%

Stock prices were mostly lower and the dollar was higher early Thursday, after a high-powered panel of the world's top central bankers made it clear that interest rates need to rise still further to contain price inflation.Central bankers on Wednesday took part in the annual European Central Bank Forum in Sintra, Portugal. The theme of the 2023 forum was 'macroeconomic stabilisation in a volatile

Blue-chip equities in Europe ended on the up on Wednesday, unfazed by hawkish comments from major central bankers, as a conference in Portugal continued.Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell affirmed that the US central bank is not done hiking, while the Bank of England's Andrew Bailey spoke of the need for policymakers to enact a more aggressive 50 basis point rate lift, in the wake of red-hot infl