Quoted Micro 23 March 2026

AQUIS STOCK EXCHANGE Brewer Shepherd Neame (SHEP) reported flat interim revenues and pre-tax profit of £84.7m and £4.2m respectively. Net debt is £84.7m and a £1m share buyback is planned. The dividend has been raised 3% to 4.5p/share. NAV is 1234p/share. Pubs traded strongly and that offset lower brewing volumes, which fell 6.6% representing a […]

Quoted Micro 17 February 2025

AQUIS STOCK EXCHANGE Music management and event promotion company All Things Considered (ATC) more than doubled 2024 revenues to £50m and EBITDA was £1.5m. Growth is coming from adding managers and new clients, plus acquisitions. Further acquisitions are planned. An agreement has been reached to take the stake in livestreaming platform Driift from 32.5% to […]

Quoted Micro 11 March 2024

AQUIS STOCK EXCHANGE Luxury prize draw operator Good Life Plus (GDLF) raised £2.03m via a subscription at 2.25p/share, which is a premium to the market price of 1.875p. The subscriber is Winforton Investments, which is associated with Sportingbet founder Mark Blandford, which will have a 17.9% stake. The cash will be spent on marketing to […]

Quoted Micro 22 January 2024

AQUIS STOCK EXCHANGE Standard listed Mustang Energy (MUST) has entered into non-binding heads of terms for the acquisition of Cykel AI (CYK). The offer is 1.844 Mustang Energy shares for each Cykel AI share. The Mustang Energy share price is 30.6p, having risen from 25.5p prior to the announcement of the deal. Cykel AI is […]

Andrew Hore Quoted Micro 15 April 2019

NEX EXCHANGE High Growth Capital (HASH) is increasing its stake in Sentiance to 15% and is negotiating an option to acquire a majority stake in the artificial intelligence and machine learning business. The additional 5% stake will cost £7m in shares issued at 0.8p each. The option would enable an increase in the total stake […]

Andrew Hore – Quoted Micro 18 February 2019

NEX EXCHANGE National Milk Records (NMRP) increased its interim revenues from £10.5m to £11.7m, although some of this was due to seasonal factors and one-off testing business. Pre-tax profit improved from £0.96m to £1.13m. Net debt was £2.06m at the end of December 2018. Every part of the business grew its revenues. Milk volumes are […]

Andrew Hore Quoted Micro 1 October 2018

NEX EXCHANGE         Brewer Shepherd Neame (SHEP) managed to edge up its profit despite flat turnover of £156.6m in the year to June 2018. Underlying pre-tax profit was 5% ahead at £11.8m. The total dividend is 3% higher at 29.2p a share. Growth came from the managed pubs but there was a decline in the […]

Andrew Hore – Quoted Micro 16 July 2018

NEX EXCHANGE         Hotel operator Hydro Hotel, Eastbourne (HYDP) reported flat interim revenues of £1.51m in the six months to April 2018, during a period where building repairs were undertaken. Higher overheads and maintenance costs meant that the loss increased from £153,000 to £200,000. There is £635,000 in the bank. AfriAg Global (AFRI) has raised […]

Andrew Hore – Quoted Micro 12 March 2018

NEX EXCHANGE    Shepherd Neame (SHEP) improved its interim revenues and underlying pre-tax profit. Revenues were 6% ahead at £84.1m and underlying profit edged up from £5.7m to £5.8m. The interim dividend has been raised from 5.62p a share to 5.75p a share. Net debt was £79.5m. The main growth in revenues was in the […]