Hybridan Small Cap Feast 24/11/2022

Dish of the day Joiners: One Health Group plc (AQSE: OHGR), joins the Apex segment of the AQSE Growth Market. The group provides medical services, in the form of elective surgical care, to support the NHS in the management of patients, through a growing network of community-based outreach clinics and independent hospitals. Market Cap on admission £15.05m. Leavers: No leavers today. What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen?** Kistos Holdings plc, intends to join AIM. The Company was incorporated to act

Hybridan Small Cap Feast 26/10/22

Joiners: No joiners today. Leavers: No leavers today. What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen?** Ithaca Energy, a UK independent exploration and production company focused on the UK North Sea, intends to join the Premium Segment of the Main Market. Ithaca Energy is one of the largest independent oil and gas companies in the UKCS, ranking 2nd by resources and 3rd by production. The offer will initially comprise new ordinary shares and the proceeds will be used to repay existing shareholder debt, includ

Hybridan Small Cap Feast 28/06/2022

Joiners: No Joiners Today. Leavers: Raven Property Group has left the Main Market. What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen? Immediate acquisitions (IME.L) is to re-join AIM via a Reverse Takeover of Fiinu Holdings Limited. Once complete the Company is proposing to change its name to Fiinu Group plc. Fiinu intends to be a provider of a consumer banking product, the Plugin Overdraft ®, which is designed to provide customers with an overdraft facility without having to change their current account or req

Hybridan Small Cap Feast 20/05/22

Dish of the day Joiners: No Joiners Today. Leavers: No Leavers Today. What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen? Psych Capital PLC, intends to list on the AQSE Growth Market. Psych operates the Psych Platform (a business-to-business networking platform), that is developing the Blossom Database pursuant to a third party licensing arrangement. The Company also has an investment of 426,000 common shares in Awakn, a Canadian NEO Exchange listed psychedelics research and clinical group, with operations in th

Hybridan Small Cap Feast 11/05/22

Joiners: No Joiners Today. Leavers: No Leavers Today. What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen? EnSilica, intends to join AIM. EnSilica is a designer and supplier of mixed signal Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). ASICs are integrated circuits or semiconductor chips developed for a particular use or product rather than for general purpose usage. ASICs help differentiate products through optimised hardware thereby making products smaller, faster, lower power and more secure and can provid

Hybridan Small Cap Feast 01/03/2022

7Digital Group 0.375p £10.2m (7DIG.L) The global leader in B2B end-to-end digital music solutions, announced that the Company has signed a contract with an existing B2B music streaming service customer, worth a minimum of EUR2.2m over a three-year period. The Company has been providing services to the customer since 2016, with contract renewals on an annual basis. This latest contract expands the relationship to a long-term agreement, providing greater visibility over revenue. The Company also e

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Hybridan Small Cap Feast 22/10/2021

Joiners No Joiners Today Leavers No Leavers Today What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen? Arrow Exploration Corp. (AIM: AXL ; TSXV: AXL) , the oil and gas exploration and production company, has conditionally raised approximately £8.8m and is due to complete its dual listing on AIM on 25 Oct. Market cap c£13.1m. Devolver Digital to join AIM, an award-winning digital video games publisher and developer in the indie games space. Recently awarded indie 'Publisher of the Year 2021' by GamesIndustry.biz.

Foundations hardening

Repeatable chemistry

Small Cap Feast: 17/06/21

What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen? Poolbeg, Proposed AIM listing and demerger from Open Orphan (ORPH.L). Funds raised as part of Admission will be used primarily to fund the clinical trial costs associated with the development of the Company’s POLB 001 asset as a treatment for severe influenza and to acquire and develop new portfolio assets. Offer details and timing TBA Wise, the Fintech and payments start-up is planning to pull the trigger on a direct listing on the London Stock Exchange as s

Small Cap Feast

Inspecs, a UK designer, manufacturer and distributor of eyewear frames to global retail chains announces its intention to IPO onto AIM raising £94m with a market cap of £138m. Admission expected 27th February. FY Dec 2018 numbers show revenue of $57m and underlying EBITDA of $11m

Small Cap Feast

MJ Hudson Group PLC, the financial services support provider to Alternatives fund managers and asset owners, is planning an AIM IPO. Deal details TBC but expected admission date mid-December. Octopus Renewables - Raising £350m. Will seek to provide investors with an attractive and sustainable level of income returns, with an element of capital growth by investing in a geographically and technologically diversified spread of renewable energy assets—Due 10 Dec. SulNOx Group - The Group has develop

Concurrent Technologies - FY23 trading update – revenue growth accelerating

Concurrent Technologies has released a FY23 trading update stating revenues in the current year are expected to be ahead of market expectations. Strong order intake has continued throughout the year and the significant investment in product development undertaken to target design-in wins has brought new customers (especially large Defence sector prime contractors), larger average single order sizes, and an increasing diversification of end markets. So far this year, Concurrent Technologies has w

Journeo - The Merry Journey Continues

Journeo has released a positive trading update following strong business activity in October and November. The company references strong trading in its core Fleet and Passenger Systems divisions, as well as the newly acquired Infotec and MultiQ divisions. We expect that the investment made in the Infotec factory to facilitate higher production speed has contributed to clearing the prior backlog and the ability to win new orders. We believe the positive trading momentum will continue into FY24E a

Altitude Group (ALT LN) - Continued rapid growth

Altitude’s interim results show continued strong trading and operational progress, with a positive outlook for the remainder of the year. FY24 revenue and adjusted EBITDA is expected to be in line with market expectations. The Group’s pipeline for university campus stores (Gear Shops) remains healthy and growing, with further contract announcements expected between March and June next year. Our average valuation estimate is now 57.8p per share (previously 57.6p), but material Gear Shop contract

Celebrus Technologies - Encouraging interims, and name change

Celebrus (formerly D4t4) 1H24 interims to September are in line with the October trading update and unchanged forecasts. The typical 1H/2H revenue split eased a touch to 40/60 from 38/62, taking 1H EBITDA to breakeven (after £-1.2m in 1H23) and en route to £5.7m for the full year (FY23: £3.7m, including £4.9m in 2H23). The delivery of the larger of the two lower margin orders, together worth c£6m and postponed from 2H23, has boosted 1H24, with cash to follow in 2H24. Net cash (no debt) of £14.7m

Crimson Tide - FY23 update: FY23E adj EBITDA +136%, FY24E reiterated

Crimson Tide has reported an encouraging FY23 trading update highlighting operating efficiencies in FY23, and a strong pipeline of new business with increasing visibility to support profitable recurring revenue growth. As a result of more efficient operations, the company delivered reduced spend in FY23, reinvesting part of the savings in growth marketing activities, including partner acquisition in the US and UK. We upgrade our FY23E adj EBITDA to £0.4m (was £0.2m) to include the savings, upgra

Morning Note – 28 November 2023

New balance

Morning Note – 27 November 2023

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

Free shares in a new company

At last week’s investor briefing, GHT lifted the lid on Floe – a new product which materially extends Gresham’s value proposition beyond Clareti (regulatory and operational FS software) to front-end banking software as well, specifically corporate banking account management – a large (but poorly served) market. This attitude is seemingly shared by ANZ - which has been key to Floe’s development and will be first to commercialise the software. And - subject to a successful rollout – its deal

Tracsis - Delivering growth now and investing in the future

Tracsis’s FY23 results demonstrate that it is reaping the benefits of organic and acquired growth as the March 2022 acquisition of Railcomm adds US growth to existing UK and Ireland strength and growth. 19% group revenue growth (10% organic) was delivered from 26.5% growth in Rail Technology & Services (RT&S), including 8% organic; and 14% growth in Data, Analytics, Consulting & Surveys (DACE), all organic. £82m revenue (vs £81.5mE) yielded EBITDA of £16m as expected, with £15.3m cash, no debt,

Journeo - Strong H1/23A Interim Results

Journeo has released a strong set of interim results in-line with the prior trading update and our recently upwardly revised expectations. Revenue increased 146% YoY to £21.8m and PBT similarly increased substantially to £1.7m driven by organic growth in all divisions and the new contribution from the Infotec acquisition. We leave forecasts unchanged following the two recent upgrades. Journeo looks compelling on an FY24E Adj P/E of 10.1x vs peers on 13.2x, and we reiterate our 1-year price targe

Shearwater Group - Interim results – steady recovery, strong balance sheet

Shearwater Group has reported interim results for the period ended Sep 2023. The results show stable progress following the challenges of the prior 6-month period and the company maintains a comfortable net cash position. The company states that it remains on track for FY March 2024E in spite of a still-challenging market. We maintain our forecasts and our 105p price target.

In the comfort zone

Eleco - Robust progress with H1 recurring revenue +18% yoy

In today’s H1 results, Eleco has reported organic revenue growth of +5% yoy to £13.5m, recurring revenue growth of +18% yoy to £9.7m, and confidence that it is trading in line with market expectations. The UK is driving the group with +8% organic growth yoy to £5.8m, as it was the first market to begin the SaaS transition, and is now experiencing an acceleration in growth as SaaS revenue builds and new modules are being upsold. Across the group, excellent execution of the SaaS transition has dri