Morning Note – 27 October 2022

Hybridan Small Cap Feast 22/09/2022

*A corporate client of Hybridan LLP ** Arranged by most recent first *** Alphabetically arranged Dish of the day Joiners: No joiners today. Leavers: No leavers today. What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen?** Streaks Gaming plc, a UK-based provider of conversational gaming products intends to join the Standard Segment of the Main Market this autumn. The flotation is expected to value Streaks at approximately £10.2m (pre-money) and will make it the first LSE-listed "pure-play" conversational gaming co

Morning Note – 22 September 2022

PCI Pal - Impressive FY22 results see PCIP on track for profit in FY24

The Finals are in line with the trading update released in July. The global provider of cloud-based secure payment solutions for business communications delivered an excellent performance in FY22, beating initial expectations and seeing upgrades despite the challenges of COVID and the distraction of an ongoing patent dispute with its competitor, Sycurio. The strong interims in March had already indicated trading success, but across the full-year its revenue rose 62% yoy, while TACV and ARR at YE

Morning Note – 27 July 2022

PCI Pal - Very positive YE update reveals FY22 beat market expectations

The global provider of cloud-based secure payment solutions for business communications has given a positive post-YE update for FY22. We had expected a good year after the strong interims, but sales rose a stunning +60% yoy, while TACV and ARR at YE both jumped c.40% yoy. The financials will beat current market expectations, leading us to upgrade our forecast revenue by 3% and reduce our forecast Adj. LBT by 7%. Cashflow seems to have been particularly positive, with YE net cash £0.7m ahead of e

Morning Note – 28 June 2022

Morning Note – 26 April 2022

PCI Pal - 3Q update sees forecast upgrades and profit in FY24

PCIP has issued a positive 3Q update, revealing that the strong trading performance in 1H22 continues through 2H with all KPIs ahead of management expectations and net cash growing to £6.4m in March (Dec21: £5.5m). In response, we lift our FY22 and FY23 revenue forecasts and expect a significantly reduced loss this year; in FY23, the higher contribution will likely be offset by some rising overheads (wages and insurance). We also firm-up our previously tentative FY24 forecasts with significantly

Hybridan Small Cap Feast 22/03/22

Joiners: No Joiners Today. Leavers: No Leavers Today. What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen? According to Proactive Investors, SpectrumX Holdings Ltd, which is tapping the healthcare and commercial potential of hypochlorous acid, is considering a London listing. It is understood the group has submitted its prospectus to the London Stock Exchange ahead of a float in late spring, targeting a valuation of around £50m. Sources suggest that a £10m pre-IPO round is largely complete, with the group looking

Morning Note – 22 March 2022

Hybridan Small Cap Feast 14/03/22

Joiners: CYBA (CYBA.L) has completed the reverse takeover of Narf Industries on the Main Market (Standard), a US based group with a track record of successful and advanced cyber security projects with the US Department of Defense and affiliated government agencies like the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. £6m raised. Leavers: No leavers today. What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen? Aquis Exchange (AQX.L) the exchange services group, announced its intention to apply for admission of the Gro

Morning Note – 15 March 2022

PCI Pal - PCI confirms a strong 1H performance

As revealed in the January trading update, the global cloud provider of secure payment solutions had an excellent first half to December with revenue growing 72% yoy – which led us to raise our FY22 and FY23 expectations. On the back of an expanding partner eco-system, channel sales of the leading-edge AWS cloud platform subscription model are the main driver of growth. With growing revenues on flat platform costs, the losses have been steadily reducing half on half. However, the second half wil

Morning Note – 1 March 2022

Stable 4Q22

LIBERUM: Trident Royalties* - Record quarterly receipts

LIBERUM: Trident Royalties* - General Motors invests in Thacker Pass

Top Picks for 2023 - 2022 review and outlook for 2023

On 10 January last year, we set out our ten top stock picks for 2022, in what turned out to be a very poor twelve months for global equities, due to war, accelerating inflation, political instability and recession fears. Between 7 January 2022 and 31 December 2022, the AIM All-Share Index declined 30.0%, whilst the average performance of our ten top picks was -24.7%, a modest relative outperformance. In this note we discuss the performance of our 2022 top picks, equities trends in 2022, and our

QuotedData’s Real Estate Monthly Roundup – January 2023

Performance - 2022 ended with another difficult month for property companies as the sector continues to get to grips with the impact of higher interest rates. There were several funds that performed well during December, however, with secondary shopping centre landlord Capital & Regional top of the pile. For a second month on the trot Home REIT saw its share price tank after it came under attack from a short seller in November. Valuation moves - It was a mixed bag for valuations, with six-month

FY22 TU – Strong Upgrades on Better Performance

Argentex has issued a trading update for the 9M22 period this morning, with revenue and earnings performance ahead of expectations. FY22 revenues are up 54% yoy to £50.4m (+7.5% vs. SCM estimates) and operating margins are ahead of management expectations. This was driven by growth in the number of corporate clients as well as good progress across its growth strategy, with robust trading across all products and geographies. Another strong update from Argentex, as the Group continues to deliver o

Strong H1 update and contract wins

Made Tech has announced a very strong update: H1 sales +76% y/y and alongside this, also several wins/expansions worth £27m. As a result, Made Tech has now delivered 48%/FY23e sales and as well, has a very strong backlog: £48m (+53% y/y) so is very well positioned to drive continued growth, both this year and next. Margins meanwhile leave room for improvement, as having generated £0.5m EBITDA in H1, this leaves work to do, but with contractors now materially lower (at c.10% vs. c.20% in the PY)

Cenkos; Marlowe Plc -- Building the software offering

Marlowe hosted a well-attended CMD last week in which it provided a deep dive into its burgeoning software business, which from a standing start in 2018, has grown to represent c25% of group Adj EBITDA today, driven by a combination of targeted acquisitions and strong organic growth (mid-high teens in FY22A). Multiple macro drivers underpin growth in the global GRC market, which is expanding at a c8% CAGR. With the share price having nearly halved over the past 12-months, Marlowe now trades mate

FLASH: FY22 pre-close indicates profit beat

Hybridan Small Cap Feast - 17 Jan 23

17 January 2023 @HybridanLLP Status of this Note and Disclaimer This document has been issued to you by Hybridan LLP for information purposes only and should not be construed in any circumstances as an offer to sell or solicitation of any offer to buy any security or other financial instrument, nor shall it, or the fact of its distribution, form the basis of, or be relied upon in connection with, any contract relating to such action. This document has no regard for the specific investment object

Q4 Activities Update

Trident Royalties Plc (AIM: TRR) has, this morning, provided an update on its activities undertaken during the quarter ended 31 December 2022. In terms of royalty receipts it has been the best quarter since inception. QoQ revenues increased 46% to US$3.5m (9x YoY). Each royalty either met or exceeded our forecasts with Koolyanobbing 52% ahead. The gold offtake portfolio was slightly above our forecast.

Thacker Pass Update

The lithium industry, perhaps the hottest sub-sector of mining right now, was set even more abuzz by the announcement yesterday that Lithium Americas Corp has secured a $650m financing package from General Motors for the development and construction of the Thacker Pass mine in Nevada. There has been some talk for a while on when an automaker was going to make a serious investment in a battery metal mine. This is the largest ever and it is suitable that it is in Thacker Pass which is the largest

Morning Note – 31 January 2023

Hybridan Small Cap Feast - 23 Jan 23

23 January 2023 @HybridanLLP Status of this Note and Disclaimer This document has been issued to you by Hybridan LLP for information purposes only and should not be construed in any circumstances as an offer to sell or solicitation of any offer to buy any security or other financial instrument, nor shall it, or the fact of its distribution, form the basis of, or be relied upon in connection with, any contract relating to such action. This document has no regard for the specific investment object

Hybridan Small Cap Feast - 19 Jan 23

19 January 2023 @HybridanLLP Status of this Note and Disclaimer This document has been issued to you by Hybridan LLP for information purposes only and should not be construed in any circumstances as an offer to sell or solicitation of any offer to buy any security or other financial instrument, nor shall it, or the fact of its distribution, form the basis of, or be relied upon in connection with, any contract relating to such action. This document has no regard for the specific investment object