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Ergomed’s FY21 results showed that adjusted EBITDA of £25.4m was ahead of our estimate of £24.0m and consensus of £23.4m. A strong order book (£239.7m, up 24.2% y-o-y), continued overall business growth and a rapidly improving balance sheet position Ergomed for another solid year of growth. Ergomed recently acquired ADAMAS Consulting Group, which we have now incorporated in our model. A UK-based quality assurance services provider, ADAMAS will diversify revenue sources (its offerings do not over
Companies: Ergomed PLC
Dish of the day Joiners: Invinity Energy Systems plc (AIM:IES), a leading global manufacturer of utility-grade energy storage has dual listed on the Aquis Stock Exchange. Leavers: No leavers today. What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen? New Energy One Acquisition Corporation Plc, intends to float on Main Market. NEOA is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in the United Kingdom that has been established to focus on pursuing a Business Combination with targets that are positioned to par
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Ergomed released its 2021 trading update. Total 2021 revenues are expected to be approximately £118.6m, up 37.3% y-o-y (our and the consensus estimate was £119.6m), despite continuing FX headwinds (at constant exchange rates, CER, the growth is expected to be 44.3%). Revenues in the CRO segment increased to £58.1m, up 85.6% (97.4% CER; our estimate was £56.0m) indicating a good rebound in the CRO services industry after it was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Revenues in the PrimeVigil
Joiners: No Joiners Today. Leavers: Rutherford Health has left the AQSE and Prime People has left AIM. What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen? ACP Energy plc, a company formed for the purpose of undertaking an acquisition or acquisitions of a majority interest in a company, business or asset, seeking to join the Main Market (Standard) The Company intends to focus on opportunities in the natural resources sector, raising gross proceeds of £830k. Due 28 Jan. Artemis Resources ltd, an ASX listed mining
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Ergomed has released its full H121 results. H121 revenue numbers were included in the trading update in July 2021, while the full accounts released last week provided details on profits. In the trading update, management also guided that FY21 adjusted EBITDA would be materially ahead of market expectations, which has since been discounted in the share price, hence last week’s announcement delivered no surprises. However, the key takeaway for us was that overall operational momentum continues to
Ergomed’s H121 trading update highlights that operational momentum continues to be strong following its stellar performance in FY20. The order book continues to grow at an impressive rate, up 18% from end-2020 with a strong 1.62x book-to-bill ratio for the period. We maintain our FY21 revenue forecast, in line with company guidance, which assumes no additional FX headwinds, but note that this could mean our FY22 revenue forecast is conservative. With acquisition synergies being realised faster t
Joiners: Northcoders (CODE.L), an independent provider of training programmes for software coding, has joined AIM. It offers a range of training and software development solutions to individual and corporate customers. The Company's offering includes 'bootcamp' training courses, government funded apprenticeships and bespoke training courses and software development solutions. The Company operates a hybrid delivery model by providing its services in person at one of Northcoders' regional office '
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Yesterday, Ergomed held its annual general meeting (AGM) and provided a high-level year to date trading update (four months to end-April 2021). The company guides to FY21e revenues in line with market expectations (Edison £119.6m; consensus £120.0m). Strong revenue growth has continued in its PrimeVigilance division, in line with prior trends (in FY20 revenues grew by 30%), and its CRO business has seen a further acceleration of growth from H220 (H220 service fee revenues up 13.5% vs H120). This
Although most of 2020 was challenging for the contract research outsourcing (CRO) sector, for Ergomed it was a transformative growth period due to well-balanced pharmacovigilance (PV) and CRO offerings. Ergomed managed to withstand global woes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and delivered another solid year of growth, organically and through acquisitions. We believe the company will continue to benefit from a clear strategic focus (oncology, rare diseases and pharmacovigilance), order book growt
Alphawave IP Group is considering an IPO on the standard listing segment of the London Stock Exchange. Alphawave IP is a leading semiconductor IP company focusing on the hardest-to-solve connectivity challenges created by the exponential growth of data. Funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, and Janus Henderson, have each entered into cornerstone agreements with the Company to subscribe for, subject to certain conditions, in aggregate, c. USD 510m of Offer Shares at an offer price representing
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Westminster Group reported results in line with our forecast, with the Technology Division taking a hard hit from Covid. The Services Division actually increased profit by 75% YoY and is powering ahead. Further contract wins as the strategy delivers, the potential implementation of the DRC airport contract and a likely recovery in performance from the Technology Division could see our prior forecasts for FY22 met. However, we have decided to put our forecasts onto a much more conservative footin
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Water Intelligence has released a very strong Q1 trading update which firmly underpins our 2022 estimates with significant opportunity to upgrade as we move through the year.
Companies: Water Intelligence plc
Water Intelligence has published a trading update for 1Q22 which confirms continuing strong growth in sales and EBITDA however, statutory profit before tax (PBT) fell YoY, weighed down by one off costs, mainly reflecting investment to accelerate growth ahead of an anticipated much busier 2Q22 and 3Q22. We continue to expect Water Intelligence to generate high rates of profitable growth, which is consistent with the disclosed investment in 1Q22 but the rating is likely to be sensitive to any conc
FRP has released a very positive FY22E trading update in which it expects revenue would be £95.2m (+21% YoY; we had forecast £88.6m) and Adj EBITDA would be £25.7m – up 12% YoY and comfortably ahead of our £24.2m forecast. Given that the UK administrations market declined 22% YoY in FY22E (as Government support measures offered a temporary lifeline to many businesses), we see this as an excellent performance, which demonstrates FRP's resilient ability to grow throughout economic cycles. With bus
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Dish of the day 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
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According to Proactive Investors, Bridgepoint is said to preparing to list Burger King UK on the London Stock Exchange as early as this spring. A valuation of £600m is expected. Lift Global Ventures plc to join AQSE Growth Market. The Company's investment strategy is to operate as an enterprise company seeking acquisition or investment opportunities within the financial media and technology industries. Within these broad industries, areas of focus may include: Financial news websites and other f
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Cloudbreak (CDL) has had an active couple of months since we initiated coverage in late February. The company continues to press ahead with its aggressive growth and diversification strategy in earnest, with new project acquisitions and two more existing projects being monetised and set on the value path with funding secured through option agreements. CDL also widened the net and made a move into the energy sector with oil and gas exploration in Namibia. We provide a brief update on recent devel
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Stronger than expected results: Trading was robust last year, with FY21 group revenues +36.2% to £118.2mn. Anexo had guided in January that pre-tax profits would significantly exceed market expectations and adj. PBT of £24.1mn for the full year was +49.7% y/y, broadly in line with our revised forecast. This was even after significant investment across the group, which together with a favourable market backdrop, under-pins our FY22 forecasts, with an upward bias to FY23. Finally, we continue to e
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WATR has published very strong Q1 revenue numbers this morning, demonstrating that the momentum continues to accelerate on the back of the company's investment, sales initiatives, new sites and last but not least the potent re-acquisition programme. WATR is a US national leader in precision, minimally invasive leak detection and remediation solutions for water, drinking and otherwise, a highly topical market, and beyond this a global player, with operations in a number of international markets.
ANX's FY21A results announcement this morning demonstrates that the business continues to drive forward very strongly and that last year was no exception, notwithstanding the challenges thrown up by Covid. Inline results are aligned to forecasts in the market which saw double digit upgrades in January. The company is a specialist integrated credit hire and legal services group focused on providing replacement vehicles and associated legal services to impecunious customers, whose rights are st
e client of Hybridan LLP Dish of the day Joiners: BSF Enterprise. Following the successful reverse takeover of 3D Bio-Tissues Limited, a tissue engineering business based in Newcastle, UK, the Company announces admission of the enlarged group to the standard segment of the Official List and initiation of trading on the Main Market under the ticker ' BSFA '. The Admission follows a placing which raised £1.75m at a placing price of 7.37 pence per share. Leavers: No Leavers Today. What’s cooking in
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Joiners: Ajax Resources (AJAX.L) a special purpose acquisition company established to deliver shareholder value through the acquisition of businesses or production and development assets in the energy and natural resources sector, joins the Main Market. Raising gross proceeds of £1,342,000 at a price of £0.04p per IPO Share, of which the Board of Directors has invested an aggregated amount of £130k. Leavers: No leavers today. What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen? Financials Acquisition Corp, a spec
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