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We initiate coverage of NCC Group, a well-respected provider of cyber security and software escrow solutions. In FY23, the company experienced a significant market pullback that revealed operational deficiencies. The company appointed a new CEO, who introduced a turnaround strategy in January 2023. We believe the ongoing improvements are transformational and consensus expectations underestimate NCC’s revenue growth and margin potential. In addition, shares trade below historic multiples and thos
Companies: NCC Group plc
Zeus Capital
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
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Hybridan
Intention to float by Gemfields Group. No Capital Raise. Currently listed on JSE. (GML:JNB) at circa £122m. The Group's key producing assets, the Kagem emerald mine in Zambia (believed to be the world's single largest producing emerald mine) and the Montepuez ruby mine in Mozambique (one of the most significant recently discovered ruby deposits in the world), are both expected to have long mine-lives with potential for expansion. Also owns the Faberge brand. Due Valentines Day 2020.
Companies: GHE ITM NCC EMIS HUD SORT GFIN G4M ECSC AVCT
Netflix is raising another US$2 billion in debt to fund additional content creation and other expenses, the company announced on Monday. The company routinely raises debt to help fuel its growing library of original TV shows and movies. The streaming giant offered US$2 billion in new debt in April after issuing another round of notes several months earlier. Netflix said it plans to use the proceeds to fund "Content acquisitions, production and development, capital expenditures, investments, work
Companies: IGP AFRN NCC ZOO CNS AVST MIRA 7DIG ECSC DFX OSI KAPE CHL
Arden Partners
Cloudflare, a California-based digital content delivery and Internet security company, raised its IPO price range this morning from a prior $10 to $12 interval to $12 to $14 per share. At its new prices, Cloudflare would be valued between $3.5 billion and $4.1 billion. Cloudflare's maximum IPO fund raise is now $563.5 million. Investors’ appetite for cloud offerings appears to remain robust. Ex- Oculus founder, Palmer Luckey’s new business, Anduril Industries, is building a virtual wall on the s
Companies: IGP NCC CNS KWS FDEV AVST GFIN ECSC DFX TM17 SOPH OSI BIDS KAPE CHL
Alan Howard’s push into crypto is a badly kept secret that appears to be crystallising into reality. In our view, the crypto space has undergone a very interesting transition from rampant retail speculation to, well, rampant retail speculation underpinned by a broad base of institutional interest. Google search volumes have fallen, transaction sizes appear to be escalating and the latest wave of equipment upgrades suggest consumer interest and potential to participate is now very low. Meanwhile,
Companies: IGP NCC CNS AVST TEK ECSC DFX SOPH ARB OSI KAPE CHL TECH
VMware said on Thursday it bought two providers of cloud security and cloud developer services in separate deals valued at about $5 billion, as it expands offerings for corporate clients. VMware bought Pivotal Software Inc in a $2.7 billion deal. Separately, VMware said it would buy software maker Carbon Black Inc for about $2 billion in cash.
Companies: NET IGP ECK NCC CNS AVST ECSC DFX LOOP SOPH OSI KAPE CHL
Tencent shares slumped as much as 3.88% on Thursday after the Chinese technology giant missed analyst expectations, despite beating forecast on earnings. Revenue rose 21% year-on-year to 88.82 billion yuan. Profit attributable to shareholders beat analyst forecasts, rising 35% year-on-year to 24.14 billion yuan. The company's gaming division returned to growth, posting revenue of 27.3 billion yuan, up 8% year-on-year, with mobile games performing particularly well.
British Airways said its flights were returning to normal after passengers had to endure cancellations, delays and long queues at London airports as the airline suffered its third major computer failure in a little more than two years. More than 60 flights to and from Heathrow and Gatwick were cancelled and more than 100 were delayed, according to the departure boards at the two airports.
Companies: IGP NCC CNS AVST SWG ECSC DFX SOPH OSI KAPE CHL
Capital One announced on Monday that a data breach identified earlier this month exposed personal information of its customers, including social security details and bank account numbers. The Virginia-headquartered bank said in a news release that about 140,000 Social Security numbers of its credit card customers and around 80,000 linked bank account numbers were compromised. In total, Capital One said, "This event affected approximately 100 million individuals in the United States and approxima
Companies: IGP NCC CNS KWS FDEV AVST SWG GFIN ECSC DFX TM17 SOPH OSI BIDS KAPE CHL
The Senate Banking Committee on Monday released the testimony of David Marcus, the head of Facebook's cryptocurrency projects ahead of his testimony Tuesday. In his prepared remarks, Marcus perfectly outlines the business model behind the social network’s upcoming Libra digital currency and its Calibra digital wallet. Microsoft might be the primary competitor for Slack, but the widespread adoption of Microsoft's software is not a major problem for Stewart Butterfield, co-founder and CEO of the m
Australia's top three banks said on Thursday they have agreed to partner with IBM and shopping mall owner Scentre Group to test blockchain technology to digitize bank guarantees. The companies are exploring how to move away from paper-based bank guarantees to cut processing time and the risk of fraud, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, Westpac Banking Corp and Commonwealth Bank of Australia said in a statement. The US government said on Wednesday it was reviewing licence requests from US c
Companies: IGP IQE AFRN NCC CNS AVST SWG ECSC DFX SOPH OSI KAPE CHL TECH
Research Tree provides access to ongoing research coverage, media content and regulatory news on NCC Group plc. We currently have 0 research reports from 12 professional analysts.
Made Tech is a leading provider of digital, data, and technology services to the UK public sector. The Group was founded in 2008 by Rory MacDonald (CEO), who remains its main shareholder with 28% of the equity, and IPO’d in 2021. The Group is entirely exposed to the UK public sector and we believe this represents a large structural growth opportunity as the shift to digital services is likely to accelerate. Moreover, we believe Made Tech will continue to benefit from the transition away from UK
Companies: Made Tech Group PLC
H2 Radnor
1Spatial’s FY24 results reflected robust momentum for the enterprise business and continued improvement in the revenue mix, with investment in growth suppressing margin and cash generation. This investment phase will continue in FY25 to lay the foundation for transformational growth from 1Streetworks and in the US in the coming years. Our scenario analysis indicates the upside from successful execution is significant, with further wins for 1Streetworks and in the US being the key catalysts for m
Companies: 1Spatial Plc
Edison
Concurrent Technologies delivered a record £31.7m revenue and a substantial increase in profitability in FY23. Management has successfully navigated through the challenging period of worldwide component supply problems that characterised FY22 and delivered a strong recovery in FY23. The business has been completely transformed since the new management team started in 2021 and the focused strategy is delivering. With revenue from the increased number of design-in wins secured in FY23 starting to
Companies: Concurrent Technologies Plc
Cavendish
Please find below our weekly update covering themes that we feel that are of interest to investors and participants in the small and mid-cap TMT sector as well as commentary on recent newsflow.
Companies: CPX CNC TRAK CLCO TERN MWE
Allenby Capital
Crimson Tide has reported FY23 results to December in line with expectations, with additional operating leverage benefitting updated FY24 and maiden FY25 and FY26 forecasts. FY23 delivered +15% revenue growth to £6.2m at 86% GM, of which over 90% is recurring, and maintained £5.8m ARR even after unexpected customer churn in the year as we previously noted. Crucially, the Group achieved milestone adj EBITDA profitability of £0.4m at 7% EBITDA margin, and edges closer to adj PBT profitability expe
Companies: Crimson Tide Plc
The Hardman & Co Healthcare Index (HHI) has been running since 2009. Its main function is to highlight the attractions of life sciences investments over the long term. For the second year running, apart from global economic influences affecting world markets, performance in 2023 was dented by the capital-intensive nature of the sector. The HHI fell 3.7%, to 483.8, underperforming the main London markets – FTSE 100 (+3.8%) and FTSE All-Share (3.8%) but outperforming the FTSE AIM All-Share Index (
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Hardman & Co
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Intelligent Ultrasound has reported its results for the 12 months to December 2023. In line with the January trading update, the company has reported group revenues of £11.2m, up 11% reported or c36% adjusting for one-off sales in FY22. Importantly, the company generated £2.0m from its Clinical AI product portfolio versus £0.7m in FY22 and we note GE HealthCare has expanded the range of Voluson ultrasound machines that include SonoLyst, powered by Intelligent Ultrasound’s ScanNav software. The c
Companies: Intelligent Ultrasound Group Plc
Touchstar is a supplier of mobile data computing solutions and managed services to a variety of industrial sectors. This morning's full year results reflect the outcome of a multi-year strategy coming to fruition for the group, with recurring revenue growth of 8.7% delivering overall revenue growth of 7.1% and in turn a 60% increase in PBT to £0.7m. Over the past few years, Touchstar has focused on enhancing the returns from their product offering through a shift towards recurring software licen
Companies: Touchstar plc
WHIreland
The March FY24 trading update reports revenue broadly in line, and adj EBITDA in-line, with consensus. Revenue of £127m at +10% yoy (Cav: £129mE; consensus range £128.4m- £130.7mE) delivered adj EBITDA of £37.5m (Cav: £38.7mE, cons £37.4m-£38.7mE) and adj PBT of £15.0m (Cav: £16.0m, cons £14.3m-£16.0m). £25m net debt (Cav est after excluding IFRS16) was slightly better than our £26.2mE, with typically strong cash generation a feature of the model but consensus mangled by IFRS16 inclusion/exclusi
Companies: iomart Group plc
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On 9 January last year, we set out our ten top stock picks for 2023, for what turned out to be another relatively poor twelve months for UK equities due to two wars, stubbornly high inflation and further tightening of monetary policy. This was even as other major markets, such as the US, largely recovered in the year. In the 2023 calendar year, the AIM All-Share index fell 8.2% and is still 42% off its 2021 high. From the release of our 2023 top picks note, the average total return (assuming div
Companies: PTAL GHH IGP MSLH PINE NXQ EQLS NXR AXL
Altitude has released a trading update for the year to 31 March 2024 confirming Management expects FY24 results to at least meet market expectations. Our unchanged forecasts show annual revenue growth of 38.9% in FY24 as the Group’s Merchanting division expanded significantly, driven by increased numbers of sales Affiliates and by the US Gear Shops. This translates to adjusted PBT growth of 29.4% to £1.2m on our FY24 estimates. In line results also means that over the last two years both revenue
Companies: Altitude Group plc
Pinewood Technologies’ results for the 13 months to 31 January 2024 confirmed good growth in user numbers, revenue and operating profit for the continuing automotive software business. Our unchanged forecasts (see 6 March research) show strong revenue growth, high margins, and good cash generation over the period to FY26 as the Group executes its accelerated growth plan. As of Tuesday this week, Pinewood’s shares are ex-dividend and a 1-for-20 share consolidation is effective, meaning our discou
Companies: Pinewood Technologies Group PLC
Arcontech has reported encouraging H1 24 results to December, with revenue £1.45m, adj EBIT £0.4m and net cash £5.7m, in line with our conservatively unchanged £2.8m FY24 revenue estimate. Revenue growth (+7% yoy) reflects the multi-year contract won in October and the strengthening relationships with core Tier-1 customers, with signs of improvements in challenging market conditions. Our prudent forecasts reflect the impact of unexpected growth in floating user terminal numbers in H1, with plent
Companies: Arcontech Group PLC
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