Frontier Developments (FDEV LN) - Expect change

Initial sales from the launch of Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin have underperformed. After several disappointing new releases, the company has decided to reverse its strategy to diversify into adjacent game genres. We believe the increased focus should improve Frontier Development’s efficiency but may also increase its revenue concentration and volatility. The update and strategic change lead us to lower FY24 Adj LBITDA to £13.6m from £9.0m. We now also forecast no revenue growth over t

LIBERUM: Frontier Developments: Warhammer: Soft trading through key period

Strong H124 profitability and growth plan ambitions

PROGRESSIVE: IG Design Group: Strong profit growth, key strategy initiatives and quantified aspirations

IG Design Group delivered a 27% increase in adjusted PBT to $34.8m for H1 FY24 (to 30 September) with a significant reduction in net debt to $15.1m, as signposted in last month’s trading update. The adjusted operating profit margin was some 270bps higher at 8.6% (vs 5.9% in H1 FY23), the highest achieved since H1 FY20 ahead of the CSS acquisition. Management has provided more details on the key attributes and initiatives for its new growth-focused strategy. The group is on track to return to pre

Hardman & Co Research: Surface Transforms (SCE) - Funding for growth: Open Offer

In the past two years, Surface Transforms (SCE) has quadrupled its order book, raised monthly sales run rates from £0.2m to £1.0m and expanded its capacity four-fold to a £20m pa sales rate. A 3 November update pointed to production teething troubles. October sales of £1.0m were below prior estimates, so we significantly reduced our 2023 and 2024 estimates. We estimate PAT breakeven for 2H24. Initially from debt, SCE has the resources to finance capital expenditure from internal cash flow to rai

The Joy of Techs - Cavendish Technology quarterly sector note

£23.3bn in enterprise value has been returned to AIM technology shareholders over the past six years in the form of 51 public to private takeouts, including 10 in 2023 alone with the takeovers of Smoove* and Tribal announced in early October. With UK valuations appearing cheap and looking more attractive to potential acquirers, we take a moment to reflect on the trends of corporate and private equity bidders targeting AIM-listed technology companies going back to 2017, through the uncertainties

Morning Note – 14 November 2023

Frontier Developments (FDEV LN) - Road to recovery

We are encouraged by Frontier Developments' announcement of an Organisational Review. We believe many video games companies inflated their expense bases during 2020 and 2021 and reduced focus on return on investment. Frontier now plans to reduce annual operating costs by up to 20% by the beginning of FY25. Frontier's Organisational Review returns the business' focus to optimising returns, leading us to forecast a recovery in adjusted EBIT margins to 5.3% in FY25 and 9.4% in FY26. We believe the

Accrol Group Holdings (ACRL LN) - Consecutive upgrades

H1 FY24 has delivered positive trading momentum with continued volume growth and an acceleration in margin recovery back to pre-pandemic levels.

LIBERUM: New Energy Nuggets: Hydrogen - the future is green

SHORE CAPITAL - Portmeirion (PMP) - House Stock at 353p - Significantly undervalued

LIBERUM: Ceres Power - Initiation - A Compellingly solid case

Allenby Capital TMT Update - 16.10.23 - ENSI.L, SPSY.L

Please find below our weekly update covering themes that we feel that are of interest to investors and participants in the small and mid-cap TMT sector as well as commentary on recent newsflow.

Spectra Systems - Largest ever consumables order from central bank

Spectra Systems Corporation, a leader in machine-readable high speed banknote authentication, brand protection technologies and gaming security software has, as anticipated, announced that one of its long-time central bank customers for banknote security materials has placed a new consumables order for the fiscal year ending 30 September 2024 as part of its five-year contract with Spectra (which was entered into in 2019).

Initial Equity Trading Comments - 11 May 2023