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03 Oct 2024
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QuotedData’s morning briefing 3 October 2024 – MINI, SHIP, CHRY

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 3 October 2024: Miton UK Micro Cap (MINI) says 31,083,534 shares or 40.4% of its issued share capital, has been put forward for redemption in its annual redemption facility. A statement from the board says “The board continues to believe that the company will be able to generate attractive returns for […]

27 Sep 2024

You, the judge – be in with the chance of winning £5,000

Here at QuotedData we spend a lot of time thinking of new ways to get the message across that the best investment companies can make the best long-term investments. Every year, the industry hands out awards to the managers and trusts that it thinks are doing the best job for investors, but we thought – […]

26 Sep 2024

Pantheon Infrastructure passing up attractive opportunities for lack of capital

Pantheon Infrastructure’s interim numbers are very encouraging. The NAV continues to climb, the portfolio looks to be in good shape, and the board has felt confident to hike the full-year target dividend by 5% to 4.2p. However, given the discount that the shares trade on is preventing PINT from raising fresh capital, it has had to […]

26 Sep 2024

Schroder Japan shareholders to get enhanced dividend

Schroder Japan results for the 12 months ended 31 July 2024 have been published and they are good. The NAV total return was 21.0%, outperforming the benchmark’s total return of 16.4%. However, the share price return was 16.1%. During the year, the company repurchased a total of 2,503,437 shares. Revenue during the year increased from […]

26 Sep 2024

Tufton Oceanic sees opportunities out to 2030

Tufton Oceanic results for the 12 months ended 30 June 2024 show an NAV total return for the period of 20.6%. The share price rose from US$0.99 per share as at the close of business 30 June 2023 to US$1.21 per share as at the close of business 30 June 2024. On average, the shares […]

26 Sep 2024

JPMorgan Emerging board initiated performance review

JPMorgan Emerging Markets has published results for the year ended 30 June 2024. The company’s NAV returned lagged its MSCI Emerging markets benchmark by six percentage points, returning 7.2% to the index’s 13.2%. The share price return for the period was 4.6%. The full year dividend will be 1.9p, up 15.2% on the previous year. […]

26 Sep 2024

Invesco Global Equity marginally behind benchmark in year of restructuring

Invesco Global Equity Income results for the 12 months ended 31 May 2024 show it marginally behind its MSCI World Index benchmark, returning 21.0% to the index’s 21.6%. However, a narrowing discount did help the shares to a 26.9% return. The period end came just after the 7 May conclusion of the merger of the […]

26 Sep 2024

AI bet pays off for Manchester & London

Manchester & London’s results for the year ended 31 July 2024 reflect the success of its AI-related investments. The NAV total return for the period was 55.4%. The share price rose by 56.1%, narrowing the discount a little to 15.3%. The dividend has been increased by 50% to 21p. [The trust is amongst the best-performing […]

26 Sep 2024

Strategic Equity Capital discount control effort seems to be working

Strategic Equity Capital’s results for the year ended 30 June 2024 show an NAV total return of 16.6% and share price return of 19.2% (as the discount narrowed a little). The NAV returns came in just behind the 18.5% return posted by the FTSE Small Cap Index. Revenue per share rose to 4.15p and the […]