Morning All!

Acal (ACL)

51.5p - £129.7m

Trading Update For The 6 Months To End September 2017 – Revenue up 15% to £190m (CC) - Order book at another record period end high. Pretty good news for a company on a PER of 14. I don't like the low ROCE and Operating Margin here.

Augean (AUG)

27.25p - £28m

Trading Update – This doesn’t sound positive – “The impact of the HMRC assessment, which the board believes will not be resolved imminently, as well as a continued weaker trading performance, is expected to lead to full year profit being below the level of 2016 with 2018 also expected to be lower than previous expectations” – I would even perhaps be concerned on whether they will be around in 2018!

Bioventix (BVXP)

2765p - £142.1m

Preliminary Results For The Year To End June 2017 – Good news all round here –Revenue up 31% to £7.2m and PBT up 37% to £5.7m – A second Interim Dividend of 31p and a Special Dividend of 40p. Wish I’d paid up on the breakout above 2000p. The PER of 32.1 seems justified here but it’s just a little bit too rich for me.

Low & Bonar (LWB)

79.75p - £262.9m

Trading Update For The Period Since 31 May 2017 – A little strange this one – YoY the board expects strong progress. The main emphasis seems to be that the board expects to see good overall progress - Not a particularly upbeat sounding update.

Spectra Systems (SPSY)

81.5p - £36.5m

Trading Update For The 12 Months To End December 2017 – Profit will significantly exceed market expectations. Next year the Chief Exec states “we expect the royalties to be somewhat higher than average next year although not necessarily at these record levels”. Quite like the look of this – As does Stockopedia, StockRank 93.

System1 (SYS1)

537.5p - £67m

Trading Update For The 6 Months To End December 2017 – Gross Profit expected to be 9% lower than last year (12% in CC) and this is a little scary “We remain cautious about our prospects over the remainder of the financial year due…

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