GAMMA COMMUNICATIONS (GAMA:AIM) £16.35 Gain to date: 9.4% Original entry point: Buy at £14.95, 9 July 2020 Guiding investors towards sensible targets and then beating them is a very good habit for a stock to develop and it’s a box that Gamma Communications (GAMA:AIM) ticks. The company recently revealed that earning for 2020 would be ‘slightly ahead’ of forecast with ...

Specialist communications kit and services provider Gamma Communications (GAMA:AIM) has confirmed that its 2020 annual performance has beaten expectations. ‘EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) and adjusted earnings per share (EPS) for the year ended 31 December 2020 are expected to be slightly ahead of the range of market forecasts’, the company said, while ...

Boss of online pet care and veterinary services firm Pets at Home (PETS) cashed in over £5 million worth of shares last week, having already passed go and collected more than £34,000 of interim dividends at the start of this month. Over a period of three days last week chief executive Peter Pritchard sold around 1.27 million ordinary shares at an average price of 383.98p, raising a total of ...

The biggest director deal over the past week comes from FTSE 250 gold and silver miner Hochschild Mining (HOC), whose chairman and founder Eduardo Hochschild sold a huge chunk of stock. Investment bank JP Morgan placed 61.7 million shares in the company at 200p each for Pelham Investment Corporation, Hochschild’s personal investment vehicle. Following the share placing, which represents a ...

Many high-quality companies have recently been shunned by investors in favour of beaten-down value stocks amid coronavirus vaccine hopes. That presents an opportunity to be contrarian and we’ve spotted a way to take advantage of such price weakness. Investors have started to realise they don’t need to pay high multiples to find growth. As such, many stocks on higher ratings like the ...

In a week where most investors have been selling stocks across the board, the general pattern of director deals has followed a similar trend. But one stand out deal involves the chairman and co-founder of German software giant SAP and a huge show of faith. Hasso Plattner, the 76-year-old billionaire who co-founded the business in 1972, has taken advantage of what has been described as a ...

Gamma Communications (GAMA:AIM) £15.35 Gain to date: 2.7% Original entry point: Buy at £14.95, 9 July 2020 Telling the market that you expect to beat full-year forecasts on earnings and revenue because your core business has performed so well is a pretty good way to impress investors, and Gamma Communications (GAMA:AIM) has done just that. Consensus for this year had been ...

UK stocks ended Monday’s trading session modestly lower as worries over the size of future financial packages in Europe and the US overshadowed positive Covid-19 vaccine and treatment data and oil companies also weighed on sentiment. London’s benchmark FTSE 100 index closed down 28.78 points, or 0.46%, at 6,261.52. LARGE AND MID CAP RISERS AND FALLERS BP (BP.) dropped 2% to 303.2p and ...

UK stocks traded lower midway through the session on Monday, with oil companies weighing, as mounting Covid-19 cases stoked fears of a short-lived recovery in the global economy. At 11.35, the benchmark FTSE 100 index was down 41.66 points, or 0.66%, at 6,248.64. LARGE AND MID CAP RISERS AND FALLERS BP (BP.) dropped 1.6% to 302.45p and Royal Dutch Shell (RDSB) 1.3% to £12.24 amid a fall ...

Among the most significant director dealings of the last week, non-executive director Andrew Stone has sold out of his remaining stake in Gamma Communications (GAMA:AIM). After selling 35,000 shares last Friday for £435,000, Stone sold a further 108,551 shares of Gamma for £2.62 million in four separate trades this week, closing out his holding. Gamma features as a new Great Idea in this ...

With a growing track record for under-promising and over-delivering, Gamma Communications (GAMA:AIM) is a fairly unique play on integrated IT and communications using cloud technology. Already a strong growth trend, the Covid-19 pandemic has hastened most organisations in their shift to embrace cloud flexibility and cost efficiency and we believe Gamma will increasingly emerge from under ...

Business telecoms technology developer Gamma Communications (GAMA:AIM) plans to pay an end of year dividend after continuing to trade strongly. The company has proposed a final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2019 of 7p a share, up from 6.2p in 2018. ‘Although we have seen some impact on the rate of growth as a result of Covid-19 we remain positive about the prospects for the group ...

Last year was very much one of two halves for the Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust (SLS). Managed by highly-rated stock picker Harry Nimmo, the investment trust aims to put money to work with lower risk, UK-quoted smaller companies, ones operating in growing markets where business momentum is ‘positive, predictable and improving’. Last year to 30 June the investment trust ...

Investors buy shares in the hope they rise over time and create value. The question is, by how much should a share rise, and over what timeframe, to qualify as a successful investment? For some investors earning a 10% return in six months would be a decent result. Others may have more aggressive ambitions, perhaps 50% on a 12 to 24 month view. There is no right or wrong answer as we each ...

GAMMA COMMUNICATIONS (GAMA:AIM) 900p Gain to date: 38.9% Original entry point: Buy at 648p, 18 January 2018 We knew half year results from Gamma Communications (GAMA:AIM) would be positive after July’s update, and so they proved. The headline numbers show earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) up 31% to £21.8m on revenues 18% ahead at £137.6m, albeit ...

Gamma Communications (GAMA:AIM) 790p Gain to date: 21.9% Original entry point: Buy at 648p, 18 January 2018 Any concerns investors may have had over the retirement of Gamma Communications’ (GAMA:AIM) long-standing chief executive officer Bob Falconer in May were quickly swept aside by a typically positive trading update on 12 July. In the 15 years that Falconer worked at the ...

Our Great Ideas portfolio was hit by the recent bout of volatility, but we are still in positive territory overall and handsomely beating the wider market. We run our list of stocks on a 12-month rolling basis and track the performance of the portfolio against the FTSE All-Share. The latest figures show our portfolio is up by 5.1% on average against a 2.7% decline for our measure of the ...

Out-competing both large and small rivals for years, Gamma Communications (GAMA:AIM) is a telecoms technology rarity growing at a pace that is far out-stripping its peer group. With a growing track record for under-promising and over-delivering, we believe the company will increasingly emerge from under the investment radar. It’s worth noting that two brokers have started covering the stock ...

AIM-quoted Gamma Communications (GAMA:AIM) is close to launching its fully integrated fixed line and mobile for business platform called Connect. This could reignite investor demand for the shares after a slow run. The consensus target price stands at 700p, versus the 601.5p at which the stock trades on the open market. One analyst calculates the stock to be worth 733p, implying more than ...

The UK telecoms and internet infrastructure industry is dominated by a handful of giants. Look a bit deeper and you’ll find some lesser-known but very interesting players. Most people associate this sector with the large companies such as BT (BT.A) and Vodafone (VOD). They tend to be natural homes for income seekers thanks to good dividend yields backed by enormous cash flows, even in the ...