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  • 25 Mar 19

Bankers Investment Trust (The) - Global ‘best ideas’ fund with distinguished record

The Bankers Investment Trust (BNKR) has re-established its trend of long-term outperformance of its benchmark, after a slightly disappointing H218. While the portfolio retains a cyclical tilt, manager Alex Crooke at Janus Henderson Investors has overseen a gradual shift toward more defensive market areas in recent months. The trust’s regional sub-portfolio managers focus on finding well-managed, cash-generative companies whose growing dividends can support BNKR’s own impressive 52-year record of dividend growth. Crooke recognises the delicate balance between positive and negative factors in the global macro picture, and over the past year has taken some profits in highly rated technology names and kept gearing low at c 2–3%. He expects greater clarity on the macro outlook in the second half of 2019, but in the meantime is taking advantage of more attractive equity valuations resulting from the Q418 market sell-off.

Companies: Bankers Investment Trust
  • 29 May 18

Outperforming benchmarks old and new

The Bankers Investment Trust (BNKR) is celebrating its 130th anniversary with a 51st consecutive year of annual dividend growth, and a new FTSE World index benchmark that better reflects its investment approach. Recent performance has been strong, buoyed by good returns from the US portfolio and eye-catching outperformance in China, while dividends grew ahead of forecasts in FY17. Manager Alex Crooke cautions that recent sterling strength could be a headwind for overseas dividend income in the current period, although the trust’s large revenue reserve (1.8x the FY17 dividend) and focus on stocks with attractive dividend growth should help to ensure that BNKR’s long record of year-on-year growth is maintained. Crooke has recently been appointed co-head of equities at Janus Henderson Investors, but remains committed to overseeing BNKR.

Companies: Bankers Investment Trust
  • 02 Oct 17

Stock selection drives positive performance

The Bankers Investment Trust (BNKR) invests globally, with the aim of generating higher long-term total returns for its largely UK investor base than it could have achieved in its home market. Share price and NAV returns are ahead of the benchmark FTSE All-Share Index over both the short and longer term, with annualised NAV total returns of more than 15% pa over five years. BNKR also aims to grow its dividend ahead of inflation, and has the second-longest record of unbroken dividend growth of any investment company, on track for a 51st year in FY17. Lead manager Alex Crooke, at the helm since 2003, has slightly reduced the North America allocation as leading economic indicators begin to look less favourable, diverting resources to European portfolio manager Tim Stevenson, who is finding good value opportunities particularly among financial stocks.

Companies: Bankers Investment Trust
  • 14 Mar 17

50 years of growing dividends

The Bankers Investment Trust (BNKR) aims to reward investors who take the additional risk of investing overseas with total returns in excess of those they could have achieved at home (as measured by the FTSE All-Share Index). The trust has a diversified approach, with lead manager Alex Crooke setting the geographical allocation, and regional sub-portfolios managed by specialists at Henderson Global Investors. Value and income are key tenets of the investment process, and the trust has recently achieved a record 50th year of annual dividend growth. BNKR has a long-term record of outperformance versus its benchmark. In the past year it has simplified its fee structure and acted as one of two rollover vehicles for investors in Henderson Global Trust, boosting assets under management by c £60m.

Companies: Bankers Investment Trust
  • 14 Mar 16

Global portfolio with 49 years of dividend growth

The Bankers Investment Trust (BNKR) is a long-established, globally invested fund with a focus on achieving long-term capital growth greater than that of the FTSE All-Share index, and above-inflation dividend growth. Lead manager Alex Crooke makes use of the substantial resources of Henderson Global Investors, delegating ex-UK stock selection to regional specialists. BNKR has recently achieved its 49th consecutive annual dividend increase, the joint-longest record in the investment company sector. A proposal to merge its stablemate Henderson Global Trust with Henderson International Income Trust could see BNKR – which will be offered as a rollover option to investors who wish to retain a global growth mandate – receive a boost to its assets under management.

Companies: Bankers Investment Trust
  • 13 Jul 15

Global growth with growing income

The Bankers Investment Trust (BNKR) is a global investment trust that aims to deliver capital growth in excess of the return on the FTSE All-Share index, as well as growing its dividend by more than the rate of UK inflation. Lead manager Alex Crooke looks after UK stock selection (c 38% of the portfolio) and sets the geographical asset allocation; regional portfolios are run by specialists from Henderson Global Investors’ well resourced fund management team. While there is no overall ‘house style’, all the managers are focused on not overpaying for growth. 12-month returns to 30 June have been particularly strong versus the benchmark and the trust is on track to grow its dividend for a 49th successive year.

Companies: Bankers Investment Trust

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  • 14 May 19

Cenkos: Duke Royalty Ltd - Capitalising on more favourable terms

Duke has agreed modifications to the terms of three royalty agreements from the Capital Step acquisition. The effect is to unlock a minimum of £3.7m in additional revenues over the next 5 years. As a result, Capital Step's future revenue is expected to increase by 25%+ at no additional cost. This realises a key synergy from the Capital Step deal.

Companies: Duke Royalty
  • 03 May 19

Burford Capital - Time to Top Up

We believe recent share price weakness presents an opportunity to enter the market leading litigation funder at an attractive valuation. Current market concerns surrounding an overstated ROIC and aggressive fair value accounting are unfounded, in our view. We reiterate our Buy rating and 2,300p price target.

Companies: Burford Capital
  • 11 Apr 19

Quarterly Research Outlook

We’re just over three months in to 2019 and we’ve seen a 10% UK market rally, retracing much of the Q4 decline, such is the nature of fickle market sentiment. That said, many of the issues we wrote about three months ago that were impacting markets remain: notably Brexit, trade wars, geopolitics and global monetary policy. The 2019 rally thus far feels somewhat fragile, with competing forces of optimism on a potential trade deal which could underpin the rally, against the deterioration in underlying economic data that could ultimately undermine the recent market gains. In this context, we look at what the lead indicators and the market are telling us about the industrial cycle and the stocks most exposed to various industrial trends. The Q4 derating in short cycle industrials and autos had been vicious and while these sectors have seen a more solid footing in 2019, with earnings downgrades being priced in, it will likely take a trough in lead indicators before short cycle stocks can start to perform again and re-rate relative to the market.

Companies: ARS CYAN HYR LIT SOM ABBY AMS AMER ANX ATYM AVON BLVN PIER BUR CGS CAML CALL CSRT TIDE DTG DEMG EMR FPO FST GTLY GENL GOR GRI GEEC HDY HMI HAYD HEAD HILS HTG HUR IBPO INDI JHD JOG KEYS KCT KGH LAM LOK MACF MNO MANO MOD MKLW OXIG PCA PANR PARK PGM PHC PMO RBW RMM REDD RSW RNO RKH RBGP ROR SUS SCPA SHG SOLG TRAK TRI VNET VTC ZOO ZTF

  • 28 Mar 19

Litigation, litigation, litigation

Within this note we look to build upon our existing legal sector coverage of Anexo*, Gordon Dadds*, Gateley, Knights, Keystone, Rosenblatt and NAHL to include the litigation funders Burford Capital, Manolete Partners and Litigation Capital Management.

Companies: ANX BUR IMF JIL LIT MANO RBGP

  • 15 May 19

Great start to the year

Be Heard has issued a positive AGM trading update for Q1 citing good YoY revenue and EBITDA growth. Both results are ahead of budget. The strong start, business wins, pipeline strength and activity levels have made the Company more confident of its overall 2019 performance outlook. It is therefore perhaps no surprise that in summary the Company is confident about achieving a satisfactory result in 2019 but one that is “comfortably in line with expectations”. Investment, consistent with meeting EBITDA expectations, has been raised and should help build on momentum. From our perspective it is very encouraging to see the turnaround of Be Heard by new management delivering a thriving business that can capitalise on its potential through the strength of its offer.

Companies: Be Heard Group
  • 15 May 19

FY 2019 results - EBITDA doubled to £1.48m

Tavistock Investments Plc (“Tavistock”) has released solid results for the full year ended March 2019. Despite challenging financial markets in the period, Funds Under Management (“FUM”) grew by 9% during the year and this was the main driver behind an impressive increase in underlying EBITDA by 101% to £1.48m. With several new strategic partnerships and initiatives in place, combined with wider industry drivers, we expect continued growth over the coming years. We leave our underlying EBITDA forecasts essentially unchanged which assume +35% growth in EBITDA in the year to March 2020 and +71% EBITDA growth the following year as economies of scale begin to have a greater impact.

Companies: Tavistock Investments
  • 15 May 19

Palace Capital - Earnings deferred to unlock potential

Palace Capital (PCA) has confirmed that FY19 independent property valuations are marginally up on the prior year, although adjusted earnings will be lower than previously expected. This is due to the deferral of some near-term lettings, as part of its asset management-driven total return strategy. Management has reiterated its commitment to the current level of dividends, expecting these and other asset management initiatives, including the flagship Hudson Quarter development in York, to deliver future income and capital growth.

Companies: Palace Capital
  • 15 May 19

Encouraging AGM statement

Be Heard has released an encouraging AGM statement for Q1 indicating that revenues and EBITDA are both ahead of budget and last year, which underpins performance for the balance of 2019. The five partner companies are performing well and in line with expectations and we retain our FY19 PBT/EPS estimates for £3.1m/0.21p. At the FY18 results in March the group indicated that MMT Digital and Freemavens continue to demonstrate robust growth while the other businesses are stable and performing in line with management's expectations. The group has enjoyed a positive start to the year for new business, with notable account wins including the Chartered Institute of Taxation, Batiste and Drinkaware, while the pipeline remains 'robust'. At the FY18 results the group detailed its focus on operational effectiveness, profitability and cash generation in addition to the migration of earnout payments in 2019 to three-year loan notes to provide breathing space. We retain our view that the shares are materially undervalued on a SOTP basis given the undoubted strength of three of the group's businesses and stabilisation in the remaining two. We believe that as confidence in the group's balance sheet recovers, value will rebuild for equity shareholders.

Companies: Be Heard Group
  • 27 Mar 19

Rally seen in the first quarter stalls

Parliamentary and Brexit developments continue to hold centre stage, although the precise path forward remains as unclear as ever. The uncertainty over Brexit, worries over a possible slowdown in the US and the outlook for global economic growth generally have all contributed to the recent falls in markets. While the rally seen since the start of the year has petered out, most indices have still made progress. In Share News & Views we comment on Bloomsbury Publishing, Bonhill Group*, Braemar Shipping Services*, Burford, Clarkson, LightwaveRF*, Marshall Motor Holdings and Synectics*.

Companies: AOR APC BONH BMS CTG CRPR DMTR ESC EUSP FDM FA/ LWRF LSAI NKTN PCF SNX TCN VRE W7L

  • 14 May 19

Understanding the deepest discounts

At Hardman and Co, we try to answer the questions of why to invest in a company and what the risks are in doing so. For many investors, simply having a deep discount to NAV is a good enough answer to the first question. However, investors need to appreciate the risks and, in particular, the reasons why the shares are at a discount. Having understood those risks, investors need to be convinced that there is a catalyst for change on the part of the manager and how long (if at all) it will take for market sentiment to reflect this in a lower discount. In this report, we examine the companies with the largest discounts and review those very issues.

Companies: ADAM BC12 BGHL CGI HAN JZCP LMS MPO MVI MHN NSI NAS OCI PSHD RSE SIHL TFG TPOU UTL VIN ELTA ELX

  • 20 May 19

Model updates post interims; maintain Buy

We update our numbers post the group’s interims last month to account for i) presentation of Saracen disposal as a discontinued op. in FY19, ii) increased finance charges of £0.1m annualised from the debt facility extension, and iii) the decision to operate Ipswich as a freehold store (previously intended to be a managed). Our forecast changes are presented below. We remain buyers of LOK, seeing moderate upside relative to peers in the context of sound market fundamentals underpinning the UK self-storage market.

Companies: Lok'n Store Group
  • 03 May 19

The Monthly May 2019

How small- and mid-cap quoted companies make a substantial contribution to markets, employment and tax revenues.

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  • 15 May 19

JPJ Group plc - Growth through diversification

Once again, a strong performance in international markets has fully offset the well-flagged regulatory challenges in the UK. Q119 revenues increased by 13% to £83.3m, driven by a 62% growth in the Vera&John division. Operating leverage from the proprietary platform contributed to a 16% increase in adjusted EBITDA (£29.0m vs £24.9m). Net debt/EBITDA has fallen below 2.5x and management will provide an update on plans to return cash to shareholders in August. For FY20 the stock trades at 6.5x P/E, 8.0x EV/EBITDA, with an estimated dividend yield of 6.4%.

Companies: JPJ Group
  • 15 May 19

The very first sign of hope ?

British Land is the first in months to feel “that some of the short-term operational headwinds impacting retailers are easing”. The signs are, nevertheless, very shy and the bulk of UK Retail assets are still, and will remain, under pressure, while London Offices are very resilient for now.

Companies: British Land Company
  • 21 May 19

LIBERUM: Shaftesbury* - Good income growth on resilient capital values

First half results confirm good income growth on stable capital values. H1 NAV was flat at 995p in line with our forecast, with rental value growth in the wholly owned portfolio diluted by valuation weakness in the Longmartin JV.

Companies: Shaftesbury