Shares in Baltic Classifieds (BCG) - the leading online classified advertising firm in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - have been on a roll since posting strong half-year results in December.The company operates 14 portals for classified ads, covering four areas - automotive, real estate, jobs and services, and generalist - and serving businesses and consumers.Each division increased its market...

It has been difficult to ignore the renewed sense of optimism creeping into stock markets this year. Misery has been replaced by a watchful brightness, and nowhere has this sheen reflected better than among software growth stocks.After tumbling more than a third in 2022, the US-listed iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV:BATS), comprised of many of the major enterprise software...

With engineering software company Aveva (AVV) poised to exit the stock market thanks to a takeover, it will mean losing the UK's largest 'tech' firm by market value, at £9.15 billion.Aveva has been majority owned by French industrial group Schneider Electric (SU:EPA) since 2017 and this shareholder now wants the whole business.That's a slightly different bid situation to most of the other...

Love them or loathe them, buy-and-build business models make up a substantial share of the stock market.Companies pursuing this strategy aim to acquire businesses, usually in an industry or industry subsector, so they can gain a larger market share and perhaps ultimately enjoy higher pricing power.Increasing scale and profitability should also equate to strong shareholder returns - and there...

Those looking to make money from the internet can find a 1,001 ways to do so via the UK equity market. Online dating agencies, suppliers of accountancy software over the web, price comparison websites, digital marketing experts, fashion portals - the London Stock Exchange Group's (LSE) Main Market and Aim have them all.It is perhaps no surprise the British equity market has such a wide breadth...