SIF Folio: Late surge boosts 2019 result + can DMGT return to growth?

My Stock in Focus portfolio has an mid-April year end, reflecting its launch date in April 2016. But as seems to be traditional, I’d like to start my first article of 2020 with a brief look at the portfolio’s performance in 2019. I’m pleased to report …

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Small Cap Value Report (Tue 7 Jan 2020) – BKS, ACRL, CARR, MRW

Good morning, it’s Paul here.

Consumer confidence
Since consumer spending makes up a large part of the UK economy, 66% of GDP on average, according to Google, then it makes sense for investors to track consumer confidence stats.
I follow the monthly p…

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CPI-to-PPI Ratio and the Stock Market [PREMIUM]

In response to “PPI and the Stock Market”, a subscriber hypothesized that increases and decreases in the ratio of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to the Producer Price Index (PPI) are bullish and bearish for the stock market, respectively. T…

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Small Cap Value Report (Mon 6 Jan 2020) – RBG, GHT, ALT, AVAP

Good morning, it’s Paul here.
There’s not much company news today, so I’m taking it easy on timings. After covering the small amount of company news, I’ll chat about some macro stuff. EDIT – it’s just not working today, so I’m drawing a line under this…

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Small Cap Value Report (Mon 6 Jan 2020) – RBG, GHT, ALT, MTW, AVAP, RCH

Good morning, it’s Paul here.There’s not much company news today, so I’m taking it easy on timings. After covering the small amount of company news, I’ll chat about some macro stuff. Should be finished by 3pm.Revolution Bars (LON:RBG)  (I hold a long …

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Weekly Summary of Research Findings: 12/30/19 – 1/3/20 [PREMIUM]

Below is a weekly summary of our research findings for 12/30/19 through 1/3/20. These summaries give you a quick snapshot of our content the past week so that you can quickly decide what’s relevant to your investing needs. Subscribers: To receive…

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Small Cap Value Report (Fri 3 Jan 2020) – NXT, JSG, MBT

Good morning, it’s Paul here.
To get you started today, here is the link to yesterday’s completed report, which turned out to be a bit of a monster, taking me until 21:30 to finish. It’s a review of everything I currently hold personally. That complete…

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Trading the Trend: Creightons plc

Creightons plc is a company that develops, manufactures, and markets toiletry products. It appears to have been listed since 1999 but the first RNS on Investegate is “Final Results” – which suggests more RNS announcements are missing.
You may have seen…

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Top Stocks for 2020 – on doubling your money in five years

[This is a fairly long piece. nbsp;If you do want to print and read offline I have prepared a PDF version that is linked to at the bottom of this piece]Introduction
It’s quite surprising that it’s already been 5 years since the start of the NAPS Portfo…

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Small Cap Value Report (Thu 2 Jan 2020) – TAST, My current holdings

Good morning, and happy new year, it’s Paul here!
I’m working the afternoon shift today, so should be finished here by 6pm.
Edit at 17:17 – this portfolio review is taking much longer than expected, so I’ll just keep going until it’s finished, est. 10p…

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SACEMS, SACEVS and Trading Calendar Updates

We have updated monthly allocations and performance data for the Simple Asset Class ETF Momentum Strategy (SACEMS) and the Simple Asset Class ETF Value Strategy (SACEVS). We have also updated performance data for the Combined Value-Momentum Strategy. W…

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SACEMS, SACEVS and Trading Calendar Updates

We have updated monthly allocations and performance data for the Simple Asset Class ETF Momentum Strategy (SACEMS) and the Simple Asset Class ETF Value Strategy (SACEVS). We have also updated performance data for the Combined Value-Momentum Strategy. W…

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Preliminary SACEMS and SACEVS Allocation Updates

The home page, Simple Asset Class ETF Momentum Strategy (SACEMS) and Simple Asset Class ETF Value Strategy (SACEVS) now show preliminary positions for January 2020. For SACEMS, positions two and three are in close competition, so their order may change…

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12 blogs of Christmas – Stockopedia’s most popular articles in 2019

You forget how much happens in twelve months. Given how the year has ended, it is worth remembering that investors entered 2019 in a much gloomier state of mind… The final quarter of 2018 saw the FTSE 250 tumble from around 20,200 points to 17,500 – …

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Small Cap Value Report (Tue 31 Dec 2019) – EAH, BGO, End of Year Review

Good morning, it’s Paul here.
Apologies for yesterday’s report not getting off the ground. There wasn’t any interesting news, and I had a case of writer’s block unfortunately. I’ll circle back, and write something about BigDish (in which I hold a long …

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Small Cap Value Report (Mon 30 Dec 2019) – DISH

Good morning, it’s Paul here.
Given that markets are quiet, I’ll be approaching things in a leisurely fashion today, so estimated time of completion is 17:00. Sorry, that didn’t work out as planned. Let’s try again.I see that the retired head of Next, …

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Weekly Summary of Research Findings: 12/23/19 – 12/27/19 [PREMIUM]

Below is a weekly summary of our research findings for 12/23/19 through 12/27/19. These summaries give you a quick snapshot of our content the past week so that you can quickly decide what’s relevant to your investing needs. Subscribers: To recei…

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Trading the Trend: Eagle Eye Solutions plc

Eagle Eye Solutions (LSE: EYE) has been listed since 2014, coming to the market at a price of 175p. 
Background
The business is a digital promotions business (think online coupons) which works in real time for its clients. It’s a software as a solution…

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Modeling the Equity Factor Zoo to Near Death [PREMIUM]

Which equity factors truly explain stock returns, and what group of them constitute the best model? In their November 2019 paper entitled “Bayesian Solutions for the Factor Zoo: We Just Ran Two Quadrillion Models”, Svetlana Bryzgalova, Jian…

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Small Cap Value Report (Fri 27 Dec 2019) – UVEL, NMD, SOM, BKS

Good morning, it’s Paul here.
EDIT at 12:40 – today’s report is now finished.
I hope all subscribers had a wonderful Christmas break. I rather like having the one day today, when we can re-engage our brains, and have a small adrenaline shot from the ma…

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Handling Reversals in Price Trend Direction [PREMIUM]

What is the best way to balance crash protection and false alarms for intrinsic, also called absolute or time series, momentum strategies that are long (short) an asset when its return over a specified past interval is positive (negative)? In their Nov…

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Small Cap Value Report (Tue 24 Dec 2019) – IQE, TND, TSLA

Good morning folks,
in today’s news, IQE (LON:IQE) has promised to adjust its remuneration policy next year after 42.9% of shareholders voted against it at this year’s AGM. More on this to follow.
Elsewhere, there is a holdings RNS from Tandem (LON:TND…

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Weekly Summary of Research Findings: 12/16/19 – 12/20/19 [PREMIUM]

Below is a weekly summary of our research findings for 12/16/19 through 12/20/19. These summaries give you a quick snapshot of our content the past week so that you can quickly decide what’s relevant to your investing needs. Subscribers: To recei…

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Weekly Summary of Research Findings: 12/16/19 – 12/20/19 [PREMIUM]

Below is a weekly summary of our research findings for 12/16/19 through 12/20/19. These summaries give you a quick snapshot of our content the past week so that you can quickly decide what’s relevant to your investing needs. Subscribers: To recei…

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The Santa Rally and 10 stocks that have led the market in 2019

Followers of stock market anomalies will know that this is the time of year when the fabled Santa Rally is due to get under way. The good news for UK investors of course, is that a favorably-timed general election (paired with an outcome the market lik…

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Zulu growth stocks passing Jim Slater’s investing rules

Jim Slater, the businessman and one of Britain’s most popular share traders, once wrote that “investment is essentially the arbitrage of ignorance”. He insisted that individual DIY investors could get an edge against professional money managers by goin…

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7 European stock markets that beat the Samp;P 500 this year

The Samp;P 500 index of America’s leading shares has risen by 25 percent in 2019, marking another impressive year for an index that’s been on a blistering 10-year bull run. US shares and markets have mesmerised investors over the past decade – and they…

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