RCS - Montanaro UK SmlrCos - Update from QuotedData

Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment TrustAnnouncement

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RNS Number : 6156G  Montanaro UK Smlr Cos Inv Tst PLC  29 April 2025

Montanaro UK Smaller Companies - Update from QuotedData

29(th) April 2025

High growth, bigger yield

Montanaro UK Smaller Companies (MTU) has adopted a new enhanced dividend
(https://quoteddata.com/glossary/dividend/)  policy, paying out 1.5% of net
asset value (NAV)
(https://quoteddata.com/glossary/net-asset-value-per-share-nav-per-share/)
 every quarter. This will make it one of the highest-yielding
(https://quoteddata.com/glossary/yield/)  UK equity strategies on the market.
For traditional equity income investors, whose portfolios tend to be tilted
towards more value-focused (https://quoteddata.com/glossary/investing/)
 cash-generative stocks, MTU's combination of a high dividend yield and a
strong focus on quality growth stocks differentiates it from peers.

UK equities were cheap relative to their history and to developed market peers
prior to the tariff-related sell off; now they are even cheaper. In addition,
the quality-growth small-cap stocks in which MTU invests have been out of
vogue recently, with the market favouring large-cap value stocks instead.

As MTU's manager Charles Montanaro points out, the historic valuation gap
provides investors with an attractive entry point. History has shown that
buying stocks on these sorts of valuations can produce attractive long-term
returns, and the magnitude of the discount of the UK's equity market relative
to other developed global equity markets could in itself be a catalyst for the
UK market to rerate.

Full Research:

https://quoteddata.com/research/montanaro-uk-smaller-companies-high-growth-bigger-yield-qd/
(https://quoteddata.com/research/montanaro-uk-smaller-companies-high-growth-bigger-yield-qd/)

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