Good morning from Paul! Graham's busy today, getting ready to fly to the UK for his star appearances at Mello Chiswick. We're both looking forward to seeing many Stockopedia subscribers at Mello tomorrow, and Weds. Do come along if you can, and say hello!
Podcasts - I ran into technical trouble on Sunday, and it looks like my website has been hacked somehow, as it now diverts to an online pharmacy selling Viagra. I just wanted to confirm this is not some new subsidiary activity of mine! So I uploaded the audio to Acast this Sunday, as usual, which distributes it via most of the big podcast channels, so it should be there (search for "Paul Scott small caps"), or here's a direct link to Acast which you can bookmark if interested. Most people seem to tune in via Apple podcasts, so it seems you've mostly got iPhones or iPads. There might be a problem with google play for this weekend's podcasts, sorry about that.
Explanatory notes -
A quick reminder that we don’t recommend any stocks. We aim to review trading updates & results of the day and offer our opinions on them as possible candidates for further research if they interest you. Our opinions will sometimes turn out to be right, and sometimes wrong, because it's anybody's guess what direction market sentiment will take & nobody can predict the future with certainty. We are analysing the company fundamentals, not trying to predict market sentiment.
We stick to companies that have issued news on the day, with market caps up to about £700m. We avoid the smallest, and most speculative companies, and also avoid a few specialist sectors (e.g. natural resources, pharma/biotech).
A key assumption is that readers DYOR (do your own research), and make your own investment decisions. Reader comments are welcomed - please be civil, rational, and include the company name/ticker, otherwise people won't necessarily know what company you are referring to.
What does our colour-coding mean? Will it guarantee instant, easy riches? Sadly not! Share prices move up or down for many reasons, and can often detach from the company fundamentals. So we're not making any predictions about what share prices will do.
Green - means in our opinion, a company is well-financed (so low risk of dilution/insolvency), is trading well, and has a reasonably good…
