This Week's AIM Highlights 2nd June

Trading Update

Pelatro has released a Trading Update which indicates that it has experienced changes to several of its contracts which will impact revenues and profits in 2022.

Trading update

Pelatro's trading statement shows that a stronger USD in 2022E, combined with delays in certain projects, will impact current year revenue and profitability. An increase in the Group's exposure to the Indian Rupee (INR), due to major Indian contracts being priced in local currency, has led to a lower USD revenue, as the INR weakened by over 8% YTD versus the USD. The company expects the FX headwinds combined with certain mainly change request revenue, to reduce Group revenue by $0.7m to $0.8m in

2022 Interims

Pelatro's interims show the company grew strongly during the period, beating DCe at the top and bottom line.

Initiation of Coverage

Founded by proven entrepreneurs Subash Menon and Sudeesh Yezhuvath who retain a 29% stake, Pelatro is a fast-growing software company focused on customer engagement solutions that help enterprises increase revenue and reduce churn.

Small Cap Feast: 06/09/21

Joiners No joiners today. Leavers No leavers today. What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen? Petershill Partners, Expected Intention to Float on the London Stock Exchange. Petershill Partners, a leading investment group providing bespoke capital and strategic solutions to some of the world's best performing alternative asset management firms. Petershill Partners today comprises minority investments in 19 high-quality Partner-firms, previously held in private funds managed by Goldman Sachs Asset M

Small Cap Feast: 17/05/21

Dish of the day Kistos (KIST.L) readmitted to AIM, following the Company's successful Equity Financing in connection with the Acquisition of Tulip Oil Netherlands. Tulip Oil has a portfolio of assets which include profitable, cash generative producing assets, plus exploration and appraisal assets. Tulip Oil has 19.5 mmboe of 2P reserves and has 102.1 mmboe contingent resources. Boanerges Limited (AQSE:BNRG), admitted onto the Aquis Stock Exchange. The Directors believe that an opportunity exis

Small Cap Feast: 04/05/21

Dish of the day East Star Resources plc, a company formed for the purpose of undertaking an acquisition or acquisitions of a majority interest in a company, business or asset has joined the Main Market (standard). The Company intends to focus on opportunities in the natural resources sector. In connection with Admission, the Company is expected to raise gross proceeds of £1.98m. Off the menu No Leavers Today. What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen? Voyager Life, the health and wellness company e

Small Cap Feast

Semper Fortis Esports* recently announced its intention to IPO onto the Access Segment of the Aquis Stock Exchange Growth Market. Semper is a multi-operational Esports organisation focusing on gaming technology solutions, brand enhancement and high growth team infrastructures. The company plans to raise £2.5m to develop their three core areas of establishing an esports team, forming partnerships with brands for sponsorship and B2B consultancy services. The Board are highly experienced in sports

Small Cap Feast

AMTE Power, a developer and manufacturer of lithium-ion battery cells for specialist markets, announced its intention to seek admission to trading on AIM. Admission is expected to take place during March 2021. The Company intends to raise approximately £7 million by way of a placing of new ordinary shares in the capital of the Company. Timing TBC. Samarkand Group Limited, the cross-border eCommerce technology and retail group opening up the world's largest market for brands and retailers, intend

Small Cap Feast

Reverse Takeover by London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG.L) following the acquisition of Refinitiv in an all share transaction for a total enterprise value of approximately US$27 billion.

Sondrel Holdings - Siemens Holding

Following the news on Friday 1 December that Siemens has, subject to completion, disposed of its 11.2% holding in Sondrel at 6p per share, we see a significant buying opportunity. We believe the sale was for Siemens AG organisational convenience rather than in relation to Sondrel’s fundamentals. We have summarised the history of the relationship, our view on the rationale for the sale and touch on the latest industry outlook. We reiterate our 1-year price target of 74p which is just shy of the h

CML Microsystems+ (CML, House Stock at 388p) - Growth in new and existing markets

Intercede - Record contract win

Intercede has secured a major contract win with a large US Federal Agency, $6.6m of which represents licence fee for immediate recognition, with a further $1.4m in maintenance and support. The contract win lifts FY24 forecasts substantially higher, on the back of a previous upgrade last month, by +31% in revenue and +186% in EBITDA, with further improvement in FY25 and FY26 from associated support and maintenance. The order for Intercede’s MyID Credential Management Solutions came after a rigoro

LIBERUM: Cerillion: Learnings from the CMD

iomart - Solid interims demonstrate stability

iomart has delivered interims to September in line with unchanged expectations, alongside a small vertical focused acquisition, demonstrating the benefit of organic and acquired growth. 18% group revenue growth included cloud services growth of 20%, which comprised modest organic growth, price adjustments after last year’s strong energy price movements, and some slowdown in organic non-recurring revenue, before the benefit of the Concepta (August 2022) and Extrinsica (June 2023) acquisitions, ad

Morning Note – 4 December 2023

Morning Note – 5 December 2023

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

PROGRESSIVE: CML Microsystems: The unusually reliable semis co delivers, again

CML’s interim results to 30 September show that, despite challenging markets, the group continues to make progress. Revenue improved by 5% to £10.6m, up from £10.1m in H1 FY23. Profit from operations was flat at £1.9m, prior to third-party acquisition related costs from the MwT transaction of £0.3m and share-based payments. Cash balances at the period-end were £20.95m (31 March: £22.26m), after significant expenditure on product development, share buybacks and the FY23 final dividend. With the M

TPXimpact 1H24 Interim Results

TPXimpact reported a strong 1H24 performance and maintains FY trading guidance; we make some small tweaks and overall retain our expectations.

CML Microsystems+ (CML, House Stock at 395p) - Board & Senior Management Appointments

Morning Note – 28 November 2023

Morning Note – 1 December 2023

New balance

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