Judges Scientific (JDG:AIM) £99.50Gain to date: 0.7%While it is frustrating to see one of our picks give up gains of more than 20% to trade flat on our entry price, we believe world-class scientific instrument maker Judges Scientific (JDG:AIM) has a lot more to offer investors who are prepared to stay the course. WHAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE WE SAID BUY?The shares topped £122 in May before the firm c

With the departure of several big gold miners from the UK market over the past decade, Endeavour Mining (EDV) saw an opportunity when it was looking to add a stock listing to its existing one in Toronto.Endeavour shares began trading in London in June 2021 and it joined the FTSE 100 in 2022. With the subsequent delisting of the Russian gold miner Petropavlovsk and likely departure of Polymetal (PO

Science equipment manufacturer Judges Scientific (JDG:AIM) surged 7.2% to £75.05 as it hiked its first-half dividend after lifting its annual outlook amid an ongoing recovery from the pandemic.'Our financial position is robust and the board has confidence that the performance for the year as a whole will be ahead of consensus expectations,' the company said.The upgraded guidance came alongside st

Retail logistics specialist Clipper Logistics (CLG) has had a storming run over the past year with its share price more than doubling as the firm has grown revenues and earnings significantly during lockdown.Its executive chairman Steve Parkin appears to have taken advantage of that after Carlton Court Investments, a company ultimately controlled by Parkin, sold 11 million shares at 575p each in t

Macroeconomic uncertainties, the return of volatility and political turmoil suggest diversification will prove a key investment watchword in 2019.One way in which investors can diversify portfolios is by allocating funds to UK micro caps, often agile and fast-growing minnows offering better value relative to larger caps; they fly under the radar of big institutional investors and are generally les

Conygar Investment Company (CIC:AIM) is set to sell its property portfolio to Regional Commercial Midco for £129.8m. Assuming it goes through, the deal would leave the company in a debt-free position and with the capacity to invest in its development assets. The pipeline includes a mix of leisure, residential and commercial projects. (TS)

The search for income has been at the top of many investors' agenda in 2015. We all love to sit back and scoop up the cash from dividends. Sadly, the risks associated with dividends are becoming elevated amid corporate cash flow pressures.Anyone who depends on dividend income to pay the bills or maintain a decent lifestyle should take a close look at equity income funds. For a small fee you can ac

London shares limp higher in early trade on Friday despite more bleak views after the latest Greece debt talks and limited corporate news. But at least the FTSE looks capable of halting a run of days in the red, including touching five-month lows earlier in the week, the blue chip index nudging 0.1% higher to 6,715.Midcaps and the wider market are similarly sluggish, tracking similarly higher to t

Sprue on track - literallyPublished on our website: 27 April 2015Will Cain on rail threat to company's manufacturing plansSupply chain worries hit smoke sensor outfit Sprue Aegis (SPRP:AIM) as a key Chinese manufacturing facility is threatened by plans to build a railway line through the site. Coventry-based Sprue owns the intellectual property for its sensor technology and outsources manufacturin

Supply chain worries hit smoke sensor outfit Sprue Aegis (SPRP:AIM) as a key Chinese manufacturing facility is threatened by plans to build a railway line through the site. Coventry-based Sprue owns the intellectual property for its sensor technology and outsources manufacturing to supplier Jarden, which majority-owns the Shenzen plant called CICAM.Jarden, also a shareholder in Sprue, licences its

Last week saw the long awaited move by the FTSE 100 to fresh all-time highs, finally breaking the 31 December 1999 record of 6951. It has been a long time coming: the index came close in 2007 and has spent much of the past two years threatening to break out, but Tuesday 24 February was when it actually happened. This week's charts are companies that, in the last week of February, also followed the

The stock market's smallest and riskiest companies have always held fascination for private investors. On the premise that 'elephants don't gallop, but fleas leap,' to borrow Jim Slater's often quoted phrase, it's easier for a tiny company to double its size, and investor's money, than for a big one. Let's face it, a blue chip company worth £1 billion will find it much harder to double or even tr

It was Napoleon who once said Britain is a nation of shopkeepers. Our whistle-stop tour of British entrepreneurs' activities in the stock market shows that two centuries on, there may still be some truth in the old adage.A group of retail grandees including Knights of the Realm Terry Leahy, Philip Green and Stuart Rose have been among the most high profile entrepreneurs to back businesses on the B

Tying your cash up in an investment for several years without receiving dividend or interest payments will not appeal to many investors. Zero dividend preference shares, however, have the advantage of helping to slash tax bills while generating a return that could help fund a large future expense.Investors buy these shares, also known as ZDPs or zeros, on the condition that the issuer will redeem

Property group Conygar's (CIC:AIM) development pipeline looks set to drive huge net asset value (NAV) growth for the group in the coming years. The £149.8 million cap's NAV - its assets minus liabilities - has a 55% upside, according to analysts at Liberum. The stock looks even more attractive when you consider investors can get in at around a 7% discount to the value of its current assets. We wo

Premier promotionNew Premier Oil (PMO) chief executive officer Tony Durrant will have an opportunity to win the market over on 11 July with a trading and operations report. The update from the mid cap oil firm is the first under Durrant's leadership after an underwhelming reaction to the former finance director's appointment (25 Jun) as a replacement for Simon Lockett. (TS)Conygar's value upliftTa

Media giant British Sky Broadcasting (BSY) falls 2.4% to 868.5p after confirmingtalks to buy its European sister companies, Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia. Such a move would consolidate Rupert Murdoch's European pay-TV operations. The German and Italy broadcasters are majority owned by 21st Century Fox, itself controlled by Murdoch. Investec says such a deal would be sensible for scale but notes t

Investors applauded life assurer Phoenix's (PHNX) decision to hike its dividend by 27% and pay down debt. The £1.1 billion cap advanced 8.4% to 640.5p on a string of news which includes plans to raise £250 million in a share placing at 500p as part of a major capital restructuring.In contrast, £6 billion cap oil service provider Petrofac (PFC) was the FTSE 100's worst performer, down 7% to £16