Trainline (TRN) 326pMarket cap: £1.45 billionGain to date: 0.6% On 1 February Shares said that rail booking site and app Trainline (TRN) was ?firmly on track for growth? and investors should seize the momentum and buy the stock. WHAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE WE SAID BUY?Trainline shares have been on a rollercoaster. On the 14 March a year-end trading update revealed full-year performance ahead of guida

Stock prices in London opened in the green on Friday, with investors confident of a softer US jobs report, which take some sting out of hawkish Federal Reserve interest rate expectations.The FTSE 100 index rose 20.31 points, 0.2%, at 8,192.46. The FTSE 250 edged up 14.81 points, 0.1%, to 20,067.14, and the AIM All-Share rose 1.54 points, 0.2%, at 769.65.The Cboe UK 100 was up 0.2% at 818.09, the C

JPMorgan UK Small Cap Growth & Income(JUGI) 293.5pMarket cap: £403.4 millionA major trend in the investment trust sector is mergers between sub-scale trusts with similar remits to create funds large enough and sufficiently liquid to attract wealth managers and retail investors.One example which Shares believes offers a compelling proposition is JPMorgan UK Small Cap Growth & Income (JUGI), which

Trainline (TRN) 377pGain to date: 16%At the beginning of February Shares said that Trainline (TRN) was ?firmly on track for growth? and investors should ?buy into the momentum?. Fast forward a month or so and we still think so.At the end of 2023, the shares enjoyed a resurgence, rising as much as 22% in one day after the UK Government said it would not go ahead with plans to create its own ?Great

Group net ticket sales jump 22% to £5.3 billionShares up 45% over the past yearInternational ticketing grew by 14%Shares in Trainline (TRN) were up over 12% to 366p, a new 12-month high as the online ticketing platform reported a 22% increase in group net ticket sales to £5.3 billion which was at the top end of the company?s ?already improved? guidance range of between 17% to 22%.Group revenue f

Trainline(TRN) 325pMarket cap: £1.49 billionAfter a hesitant start to life as a public company we think Trainline (TRN) is firmly on track for growth and investors should buy into the momentum.The shares enjoyed a resurgence at the end of 2023 rising as much as 22% to 349p in one day after the UK government said it would not create its own ?Great British Railways? ticket retailing website and ap

Tribal (TRN:AIM) 51.2pLoss to date: 20% Trading a seeming arbitrage opportunity is always risky and this has blown up in our faces. Education software supplier Tribal (TRB:AIM) had a takeover offer from US peer Ellucian on the table worth £172 million on an enterprise value basis, or 74p per share. The deal had been recommended by the board and had a lot of early shareholder backing.That the comp

US dominates global equity market scaleUK?s 2.9% ranks 6th largestChina?s growth puts it 3rd behind EUGlobal equity markets have nearly tripled in size since 2003, climbing to $109 trillion in total market capitalisation. This is based on data from the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA).Over the last several decades, the growth

Government plan dated from May 2021Trainline shares jump over 20%Full year ticket sales seen up around 20%Shares in Trainline (TRN) surged as much as 22% to 349p in morning trading as the ticketing platform welcomed the news the UK government would not create its own ?Great British Railways? ticket retailing website and app.The proposals were originally outlined by the Department for Transport (Df

23% rise in net ticket sales to £2.6 billionGreater e-ticket adoptionOperating cash flow up 166%Shares in Trainline (TRN) were up nearly 10% to 288p in morning trading as the post-pandemic recovery continued for the ticketing platform across core markets.In contrast, year-to-date Trainline shares are down over 16%. The company reported a 23% increase in group net ticket sales to £2.6 bill

First-half sales beat expectationsShares top FTSE 250 leader board£50 million buyback a firstTravel ticketing firm Trainline (TRN) surprised investors with a stronger-than-expected performance in the first half of the financial year and news it would buy back up to £50 million of shares.The stock price jumped as much as 16% to 287p before settling back to trade 12% higher at 278p by mid-morning,

Shore Capital highlights potentialExpansion on the cards in EuropeProfit and net ticket sales have risen sharplyAlthough shares in ticketing platform Trainline (TRN) are down 10% year-to-date it has broadly benefited as UK travel experiences a boom once again post-pandemic. Back in May Trainline reported a 72% rise in net ticket sales of £4.3 billion for the year ending 28 February 2023.Op

There are several reasons to invest in the rail sector. For one, there is continued investment by governments from the UK, US and Europe in rail infrastructure and technology.The railway industry is starting to take notice of its own carbon emissions and is taking steps to cut its carbon footprint. For example, UK railway company Network Rail has a 30-year strategy to deliver a more sustainable ne

Net ticket sales up 72%Shrugs of UK rail strikes last yearCirca 200 million train tickets sold across EuropeShares in Trainline (TRN) were up nearly 15% to 278p in morning trading as the ticketing platform said that the travel recovery was well under way post pandemic.Trainline reported a 72% rise in net ticket sales of £4.3 billion for the year ending 28 February 2023.Jody Ford, CEO of Trainline

- Net ticket sales up 16%, a miss on 18% to 27% guidance- Industrial action costing £5 million to £6 million per day- Shares down 10% this year as investors mull Trainline pros and consTrainline's (TRN) rapid recovery from Covid rattles on, even if business travel is slower coming back. But with the pandemic behind it, there's 1970s-style strikes to contend with, costing the ticketing platform a

Shares in Trainline (TRN) have fallen almost 30% over the past six months with the train tickets platform's hoped-for recovery derailed by industrial action.The rail strikes, which began last autumn, continued into winter and show few signs of letting up as Mick Lynch and the RMT union trade barbs with the UK Government, directly impact ticket sales for Trainline.In the pre-strikes half to August

With little end in sight in the stand-off between rail unions, the network operators and the Government train tickets platform Trainline (TRN) will be tearing its hair out.2022 was supposed to be the year when the company benefited from the return to some sort of normality as Covid restrictions were lifted. At first that looked to be the case as the shares hit highs above 400p over the summer.Howe

David is a 41-year-old IT consultant who first got interested in investing in 2004 after buying shares in his employer when it floated on the Indian stock market.He then started investing in the UK and US markets for his ISA and SIPP (self-invested person pension). The ISA is used to house stocks while the SIPP is comprised of funds and investment trusts.David still owns shares in the Indian compa

When Adobe (ADBE:NASDAQ) reported second quarter figures in June 2022 it unveiled earnings that beat forecasts, reporting $3.35 versus consensus estimates of $3.31. So far, so what? The market shrugged the results off - the share price dipped 1.2% to $360. Yet this was the latest in a long run of quarterly forecast beats that, barring a single period in 2018, stretch back to 2013.Since then, Adobe

- Investors swoop after ticketing platform hikes growth expectations- Trainline shares have more than doubled since March- National Rail strike threat could disrupt key summer holiday seasonRail and coach travel ticketing platform Trainline (TRN) has hiked guidance for the year to February 2023 after seeing a faster-than-expected recovery in rail passenger volumes in the UK and across Europe, part