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 ...

With the company seemingly steaming along investors in Newbury-based Gamma Communications (GAMA:AIM) might be shaken by news of nearly £8.5 million worth of stock being sold by two directors. But SHARES has done the digging and found a more than reasonable explanation. Before its 10 October 2014 IPO the company went through a share capital rejig in preparation, and a side effect of this saw ...

Shares’ 15 for 2015 stock picks thrashed the market this year, gaining an average of 11.8% versus a 2.2% gain on the FTSE All-Share over the comparative 12-month period. That follows a 5.9% gain for our 2014 portfolio which also outperfomed the market. While we can’t promise our 2016 picks will deliver the same results, we’re optimistic about the prospects for this year’s Dynamite ...

High-speed technology and connectivity are long-run business and consumer themes that have for several years attracted hefty investment, but there remain sub-sector niches that continue to emerge, many of them under the radar of many retail investors. We all know that the internet has transformed the way we communicate, shop and even entertain ourselves. We also know that super-fast ...

Gamma Communications (GAMA:AIM) 292p Gain to date: 26.1% Original entry price: 231.5p, (23 Dec ‘14) The news got somewhat buried amid other corporate announcements but public sector communications framework wins on 10 August are an exciting development for Gamma Communications (GAMA:AIM). Bagging eight out of a possible 10 awards on the new Crown Commercial Service Network Services ...

Gamma Communications (GAMA:AIM) 280p Gain to date: 21.0% Original entry price:  231.5p, (23 Dec ‘14) Part of our thinking behind backing this communications services and software company was its unparalleled ability to consistently grow beyond its peers, and it’s taken barely a month to demonstrate the point. Just three months after joining AIM on 10 October Gamma Communications ...

London markets are struggling to make up their minds in early trade on Tuesday, seemingly taking in stride unease in the euro zone in the wake of the Greek elections but tentative over UK growth figures due later today. The FTSE 100 nudges 3.5 points lower in to 6,850 having risen by a similar token from the off, although British mid caps put in a stronger showing thanks to a handful of upbeat ...