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Corero Network Security (CNS LN) - Strong H1 performance, record pipeline

Corero has provided a positive trading update for H1-2024 showing revenue growth of 16% to $12.2m and EBITDA up $0.9m yoy to $0.7m, driven by a strong execution within the contract renewals market and successful upselling to its existing customer base. Corero has continued to invest strategically and focus aggressively on its competitor replacement program within the contract renewals market, supporting 10 new direct customer wins across eight countries in the period and leaving the Group with a

Hybridan Small Cap Feast 10 July 2024

Dish of the day Admissions: Delistings: Gresham Technologies (GHT.L) has delisted from AIM Partway Group (PTY.L) delisted from the Main market yesterday What’s baking in the oven? ** Potential**** Initial Public Offerings: ITF announced: 8th July 2024: Rome Resources: The Canada-based early-stage resource exploration Company has announced its intention to IPO on AIM in order to continue to make financial progress on its “Bisie North Tin Project”. The Company’s first day of trading on AIM is exp

Corero Network Security (CNS LN) - Contract momentum continues

Corero has announced further contract momentum through signing four new customers across the US, Canada and the UK worth $2.2m. All four customers have selected Corero over the previous incumbent, confirming that the renewed strategy employed by the new CEO to aggressively target contract renewals market is yielding results. Zeus leaves forecasts unchanged today and await further details at the half year trading update, but reiterate the investment case set out in our May initiation note highlig

Zeus UK smallcap technology sector update - 28 June 2024

The companies in the Zeus smallcap technology universe with the highest earnings growth potential are Seeing Machines, ZOO Digital, CyanConnode and Ensilica. Their surprisingly low earnings multiples indicate to us that investors are sceptical of their anticipated growth. The companies that are well positioned to meet earnings expectations may offer potential price upside. We review their growth prospects below and highlight CyanConnode. The median stock in the Zeus UK smallcap technology index

Hybridan Small Cap Feast - 05 June 24

5th June 2024 * A corporate client of Hybridan LLP ** Arranged by type of listing and date of announcement *** Alphabetically arranged **** Potential means Intention to Float (ITF) has been announced, or it is a rumour Dish of the day Admissions: Delistings: What’s baking in the oven? ** Potential**** Initial Public Offerings: ITF announced: 22nd May: Raspberry Pi announces an intention to float onto the Premium listing segment of the Main Market. Raspberry Pi is a designer and developer of high

Corero Network Security (CNS LN) - Initiation: Securing momentum

Corero provides best-of-breed DDoS protection software in the rapidly growing cyber security market. The company offers superior products with low total cost of ownership and flexible deployment options, in our view.

Hybridan Small Cap Feast - 07 May 2024

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Excellent momentum in new orders

Corero has secured $8m of orders from both existing and new customers in the first four months of FY24E. The group reported a 17% YoY growth rate in annualised recurring revenue (ARR) last year. This level of momentum in orders not only supports our double-digit % growth forecasts, but also validates the Group’s go-to-market strategy. We are forecasting +13% growth in revenues in FY24E to $25.3m (unchanged), With gross margins high at 90%, the drop through rate of incremental revenues to earnin

Hybridan Research: Sector Review: Artificial intelligence in UK cybersecurity: the human uplift 17/04/2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a double-edged sword in cybersecurity. Whilst new AI models, architectures, and innovations are emerging to protect the security posture of organisations, attackers are also benefiting from deepfakes, sophisticated phishing, and automation of malicious codes. To ensure the impact of AI on cybersecurity to be a net-positive, we need to pit good AI against bad AI. Point solutions enhanced with machine learning: Global cybersecurity has been built with point soluti

Hybridan Small Cap Feast - 17 April 24

17th April 2024 * A corporate client of Hybridan LLP ** Arranged by type of listing and date of announcement *** Alphabetically arranged **** Potential means Intention to Float (ITF) has been announced Dish of the day Admissions: Delistings: What’s baking in the oven? ** Potential**** Initial Public Offerings: Reverse Takeovers: 16 April 2024: Electric Guitar (ELEG.L) Concurrent with its Admission to trading on AIM, Electric Guitar is proposing to acquire the entire issued share capital of 3radi

Hybridan Small Cap Feast - 11/04/2024

11th April 2024 * A corporate client of Hybridan LLP ** Arranged by type of listing and date of announcement *** Alphabetically arranged **** Potential means Intention to Float (ITF) has been announced Dish of the day Admissions: Delistings: Loopup Group (LOOP.L) has left the AIM market. What’s baking in the oven? ** Potential**** Initial Public Offerings: Reverse Takeovers: Change of Market: TheWorks (WRKS.L) a multi-channel value retailers of books, arts and crafts, stationery, toys and games,

Hybridan Small Cap Feast - 03 Apr 24

3rd April 2024 @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 objecti

Morning Note – 25 July 2024

PANMURE LIBERUM: Cambridge Cognition: On track, profitability expected FY 2024

musicMagpie - Strategically positioning for profitability

musicMagpie’s (MMAG’s) H124 results reflected several strategic decisions taken by the management team to improve profitability and cash generation. The decision to make the US a sourcing-only geography to benefit margins had a notable impact on revenues, with US revenues declining by more than half. Despite the double-digit decline in group revenue, the adjusted EBITDA margin remained relatively stable at 4.4% (H123: 4.5%), reflecting the focus on profitability. The outlook remains challenging,

Hardman & Co Monthly: July 2024

Feature article: UK life sciences needs more local institutional support to survive. For two years running, the Hardman & Co Healthcare index has declined, underperforming both the FTSE 100 and the FTSE All-Share indices. This is quite unusual for healthcare stocks. Apart from the general economic influences, which have made institutions more risk-averse, there was a common knowledge that several companies were in need of additional working capital; so, share prices were marked down in anticipa

Hybridan Small Cap Feast 07/07/23

Joiners: No joiners today. Leavers: Medica Group plc has left the Premium Segment of the Main Market. What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen?** Blackpoint Biotech plc, a medical cannabinoids company established to fulfil gaps in the medical cannabis market by creating products that provide fast onset of action and accurate dosing, intends to join intends to join the Access Segment of the AQSE Growth Market. Expected Admission 20 July 2023. Metals One Plc, a company focusing on acquiring natural resou

Hybridan Small Cap Feast - 25 July 24

* A corporate client of Hybridan LLP ** Arranged by type of listing and date of announcement *** Alphabetically arranged **** Potential means Intention to Float (ITF) has been announced, or it is a rumour Dish of the day Admissions: None Delistings: None What’s baking in the oven? ** Potential**** Initial Public Offerings: ITF announced: 8th July 2024: Rome Resources: The Canada-based early-stage resource exploration Company has announced its intention to IPO on AIM in order to continue to make

Hybridan Small Cap Feast - 26 July 2024

26th July 2024 * A corporate client of Hybridan LLP ** Arranged by type of listing and date of announcement *** Alphabetically arranged **** Potential means Intention to Float (ITF) has been announced, or it is a rumour Dish of the day Admissions: Rome Resources (RMR.L) formerly Pathfinder Minerals Plc has relisted on the AIM market following its reverse takeover. Delistings: None What’s baking in the oven? ** Our daily digest of news from UK Small Caps If you would like to unsubscribe, please e

PROGRESSIVE: Beeks Financial Cloud Group: FY update: an in-line year featuring significant double-digit growth

Following significant double-digit growth, Beeks announces that FY24 results (to 30 June) are in line with expectations. Revenue soared 27% Y/Y. We note a beat to FCF, a beat to net cash (6.58m vs 4.41m in FY23) and a beat to profitability all illustrative of improving unit economics. CEO Gordon McArthur comments that the record results are a testament to Beeks growing reputation. That Beeks did not suffer outage, or break SLAs, on 19 July will copper bottom that reputation. After that global IT

National World Trading Update

National World has reported a Trading Update for the 21wks to 25th May in which revenues advanced +18% driven by acquisitions; we maintain our FY24 estimates.

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Morning Note – 22 March 2024

Intercede - An exceptional year shows the potential

Intercede has delivered revenue to March FY24 of £20m (+65% vs FY23) as expected, with profit and cash generation comfortably in line with the April trading update. Adj EBIT of £5.9m (vs £5.5mE; +479% vs FY23), and free cash flow of £9.0m (vs £8.9mE; +277% vs FY23), again outperformed forecasts that have been upgraded eight times already since 2022: original expectations accommodated £12m revenue, £0.6m adj EBIT and FCF of £0.4m. With the CMD having demonstrated the expanded product trio of MyID