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Chesnara has announced its 2021 full-year results. The headline figures are good, with Economic Value earnings of £57.8m. Within this, there were strong positive results from economic variances. Operational variances showed the effect of the challenges to the Swedish business, in particular, although their negative contribution of £32.6m was a distinct improvement on the £49.9m loss in 2020. The final dividend increased by 3% to give a total for the year of 22.60p. On the balance sheet, the grow
Companies: Chesnara Plc
Life assurance consolidators should be boring most of the time, perhaps apart from when they do some M&A. Operationally, Chesnara has been close to achieving that, although recent events have made it challenging. Although cash generation has remained adequate in the past couple of years, the prospects of a calmer environment should bring a return to more meaningful surpluses again. A comfortable, but not overweight, capital position supports this. We expect continued, steady, operational and cap
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Aviva’s Q1 22 trading update was slightly above our expectations although this remains very much tied to the top-line and profitability could be impacted as of H1. Do the operations really mean that much for the share price with high dividends as a back-up? The latter are expected to continue as the firm has stated that it will release capital above its 180% solvency ratio.
Companies: Aviva plc
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Duke has raised £20m in new equity capital, subject to shareholder approval, to fund their continued expansion. The new capital will also support the company's target of increasing their debt facility by a further £25m, and therefore providing a total of £45m of new capital to invest. The increasing scale and diversification of the portfolio is forecast to eventually increase free cash flow per share once full deployment has taken place and will allow Duke to seek a reduction in its debt facilit
Companies: Duke Royalty Limited
Weekly round-up of AIM-listed healthcare news. Venture Life Group, GENinCode, Kromek, Alliance Pharma, Polarean Imaging, Benchmark Holdings, Ondine Biomedical, Verici Dx, Faron Pharmaceuticals, Avacta Group, Abingdon Health, Open Orphan, Belluscura, Hutchmed (China), Oxford Biodynamics
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*A corporate client of Hybridan LLP Dish of the day Joiners: EnSilica (ENSI.L), has join AIM. EnSilica provides an end-to-end service for the design and supply of mixed signal ASICs, outsourcing certain elements such as the wafer fabrication of the manufacturing and packaging to third parties - otherwise known as a Fabless Semiconductor Model. ASICs are Integrated Circuits or semiconductor chips developed for a particular use or product rather than for general purpose usage. ASICs help
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Belvoir has acquired TIME Group Ltd, an appointed representative of Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) for an initial £3.7m cash cost. TIME provides mortgage and related financial services and is a good step forward in Belvoir’s growth strategy, within which the potential in Financial Services plays a key part. The initial cost represents 5.8x FY 2021 PBT and we have upgraded our FY 2022E EPS by +3% and 2023E by +7%. In FY 2021, Belvoir’s Financial Services division grew revenue by +44% organically an
Companies: Belvoir Group PLC
Joiners: No Joiners Today. Leavers: Clipper Logistics has left the Main Market following a Cash takeover. What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen? According to news reports, The Very Group, is looking to float after calling off their plan for a £4bn IPO last year due to a volatile market. The ecommerce group is owned by the Barclays family. According to the Sunday Times, the retailer has offered incentives to senior leaders at the firm for pulling off a flotation, which the Barclays family now hope to
Companies: AXS AMS EVG FRAN KMK MRL SDX TEK TGP
Following its 30 April year end, Purplebricks preclose reveals instructions and revenue in 2H have resulted in an £8.8m EBITDA loss for the year.
Companies: Purplebricks Group Plc
AUCTUS PUBLICATIONS ________________________________________ ADX Energy (ADX AU)C; Target price of A$0.060 per share: Flow rate at the top end of expectations at important appraisal well - The Anshof-3 well flowed ~75 bbl/d of light oil (and no water) on test from the Eocene reservoir. This has positive implications for production, reserves and the upside case. The flow rate was at the upper end of expectations (40-80 bbl/d). The well has not been acidized yet which could boost production rate b
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Companies: H&T Group plc
Feature article: Latest ONS survey: steady as she goes…and ignore retail investors at your peril The ONS (Office for National Statistics) has been charting the beneficial ownership of UK-quoted companies periodically since the early 1960s. The latest paper was published in March 2022, and considers the data for December 2020. At December 2020, “Rest of the World” investors owned 56.3% of the market, a further growth since the last survey, while UK institutions’ ownership edged up to 31.6%.
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AUCTUS PUBLICATIONS ________________________________________ Looking at E&P Free Cash Flow - While companies still carry hedges contracted at lower prices, we estimate our producer universe will generate ~25% FCF yield (defined as FCF/EV) in 2022 at ~US$100/bbl. At just US$70/bbl, the overall FCF yield is estimated at 15% for 2023 and >20% for 2024. Assuming US$110/bbl, this increases further to ~40% for each of 2023 and 2024. At YE24, balance sheet net cash, after paying shareholder distributio
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Deltic Energy had a highly successful 2021. The highlights were confirmation by the Shell-Deltic joint-venture of drilling at the Pensacola prospect on the Carboniferous/Zechstein fairway of the Southern North Sea (SNS) Basin, the Capricorn Energy (CNE.L) five licence farm-in on the same fairway and Capricorn’s 3-D seismic shoot over licence P2428.
Companies: Deltic Energy PLC
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