Many people are prepared to pay a high price for growth in the current market. Indeed, Shares has been keen to extol the virtues of quality businesses capable of growing despite a troubled backdrop. However, we sense growing interest in the market for value opportunities and our research shows it is currently possible to find decent companies trading at attractive prices. Warren Buffett ...

With the risk of a second coronavirus wave weighing on sentiment and the worst of the economic fallout from the pandemic to follow, risk-averse portfolio builders should swerve the trash and instead put cash to work in quality stocks, or in funds with a quality tilt to them. There are no guarantees, but we think shares or funds that are quality through and through will provide generous returns ...

This is a small cap investment story we have watched for ages and now feel confident it has developed the scale and market positioning to really move the earnings needle. Incredibly, Elecosoft (ELCO:AIM) has been in business for more than 100 years but turned itself into a construction industry technology supplier when it sold its physical building operations about five years ago. These days ...

Construction software minnow Elecosoft (ELCO:AIM) has shot the lights out for 2016, beating pre-tax forecasts by more than 20%. The earnings are so good that it has achieved 2017’s forecast profit a year early. Record sales of £17.7m and sterling tailwinds from its Swedish and German operations have subsequently driven the strong operational performance. The shares have jumped 20% to ...

UK markets are largely flat on inauguration day for Donald Trump with the FTSE 100 nudging six to seven points lower to stay just above 7,200 on an otherwise typically dull Friday for corporate news. The UK blue-chip index closed down 0.54% at 7208.44 points on Thursday, dragged down by British parcel and postal firm Royal Mail (RMG), whose results were badly received, which you can read about ...

Construction software tiddler Elecosoft (ELCO:AIM) is facing an management power vacuum with CFO of nine-years Graham Spratling leaving once 2016 full year accounts have been completed. While executive chairman John Ketteley continues to oversee day-to-day operations the £23.1m company has still to appoint a CEO replacement after Nick Caw departed in April ...

Dubbed ‘micro caps’ by investors, the London stock market’s smallest quoted company fry can be binary bets, as likely to ‘turn turtle’ as morph into a ‘ten-bagger’, the latter the holy grail of growth company investing. Yet despite their inherent risks, micro caps should form at least a portion of a well-diversified portfolio, since they offer potential for rapid-paced growth and ...

London shares open on the up in early trade on Tuesday as markets track gains in Europe and the US in the previous session. However, mining stocks act as a drag on gains after a surprise interest rate cut in Australia. The benchamrk FTSE 100 index is trading around 60 points higher, or 0.8%, at 7,045, with midcaps matching the Footsie rally, the FTSE 250 up to 17,614. Banking giant HSBC ...