Trustpilot director buys 78,000 sharesAssociated British Foods director buys 2,930 sharesPetra Diamonds director buys 65,000 sharesA person closely associated with chair of the board and non-executive director Zillah Byng-Thorne at global reviews platform Trustpilot (TRST), Max Thorne has bought 78,800 shares at 217p for a total value of £170,996 on 21 May.Thorne's purchase comes after the FTSE 2

Revenue up 18% year-on-yearTotal cumulative reviews up 25% to 267 millionShare buyback of circa $25 million started in JanuaryShares in Trustpilot (TRST) were up over 5% in morning trading to 216p as the global review platform reported a strong set of full year results.Revenue for the year ending 31 December 2023 was up 18% to $176 million compared to $149 million in the same year ago period.Over

TRUSTPILOT (TRST) Price: 161pMarket cap: £672 million Investors may think they have missed the Trustpilot (TRST) boat after the shares have doubled in six months. Not so, in our opinion. Shares believes this re-rating story has only just started and the share price could easily surge past 200p this year and far higher over time. To put this into context, when analysts at Berenberg and Peel Hunt b

Shares up 88% over last yearAnnounces £20 million share buy-back programmeShares hit a two-year highShares in Trustpilot (TRST) were up over 20% this morning to 170p as the online reviews and analytics platform said it was expecting to report full year adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) for the year ending 31 December ahead of expectations.For full yea

It has been an eventful second half of the year for global review platform Trustpilot Group (TRST) after the firm raised its profit guidance and appointed a new chief executive.From their early July low of 63p, just before the release of the group's first half trading update, the shares have very nearly doubled to new 12-month highs of 118p.Behind the rise are repeated earnings upgrades and excite

Trustpilot chair snaps up 150,000 sharesBarclays finance director sells stockBuying by SThree CEO boosts confidenceZillah Byng-Thorne, chair of the board at Trustpilot (TRST), bought 150,000 shares in the online reviews and analytics platform at 93p, for a total value of £138,900, on 19 September 2023.Byng-Thorne dipped into the market on the day Trustpilot reported an impressive set of first hal

Stock tops FTSE All-Share leader board with near-17% jumpManagement talk up further margin gainInvestors impressed by profit quality promiseOnline reviews and analytics platform Trustpilot (TRST) surged on 19 September 2023 after telling investors it expects margin improvements to continue to flow through during the second half of the year (to 31 Dec).Shares in the Denmark-based business jumped ne

- US bank saved by regulators- UK arm rescued by HSBC- Depositors in both banks safeBanking regulators in the US and the UK moved swiftly over the weekend to limit the potential fall-out from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SIVB:NASDAQ) and Silvergate Capital (SI:NYSE) last week.SVB held deposits belonging to half of all venture-backed startups in the US, according to Bloomberg, and on Friday

Online reviews and analytics platform Trustpilot (TRST) believes it will hit breakeven in 2024, on an EBITDA basis (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation), sooner than most analysts are forecasting.The Danish company which listed in London in March 2021, revealed its intentions to analysts at a capital market day on 16 June, during which it also broke out standalone sales an

We all wish we had a crystal ball to aid our investing. After all, knowing what the future holds in the markets would enable us to very quickly rack up the kind of returns which would allow us to retire to our own Caribbean island.So, it's no surprise people are drawn to analyst forecasts. These are estimates calculated by professionals working at stockbrokers and investment banks. They are seekin

The UK's technology sector has been hammered in recent months as investors ditched high growth companies for safer havens amid stock market and geopolitical uncertainty. Hot running inflation risks eating into future profits, which means investors now prefer lower growth companies which are enjoying good profit today, not waiting for bigger earnings years down the line.This shift has had a savage

The FTSE 100 finished 0.81% in the green at 7,551.72 points on Wednesday, building on Tuesday's rally despite US CPI inflation hitting 7% in December, a 40-year high.With markets already pricing in rate rises, investors took the US inflation print in their stride, though it would have been a different story if the figure had strayed above the 7% most analysts had been expecting.Global equities wer

London's FTSE 100 traded 0.66% higher at 7,540.92 points by lunchtime on Wednesday amid the release of a slew of positive local earnings updates, including guidance upgrades from retailers Sainsbury's (SBRY), JD Sports Fashion (JD.) and Dunelm (DNLM), and as investors awaited the release of key US inflation data due later in the day.The global mood already had been lifted by testimony from Federal

It may not go near the performance of nascent cyber security star Darktrace (DARK) but investors piled in to Trustpilot (TRST) after shares in the online reviews platform began trading on the London market in March 2021.Retail investors were unable to participate directly in the IPO (initial public offering) so there was a ready army of willing buyers poised to pounce. And pounce they did, initial

Investors jumped on DNA-sequencing company Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) early on Thursday as its hotly-anticipated stock market debut went off with a bang.A favourite with one-time star fund manager Neil Woodford, Oxford Nanopore saw its share price surge nearly 45% in early trading to hit 616p in one of the UK's best-ever market debuts. That values the business at close on £5 billion.The I

FTSE traded in a narrow band of just 20 points on Wednesday suggesting indecision among investors as they face what could be a tricky autumn with infection levels and hospitalisations remaining stubbornly high while economic recovery wanes.By the close of business, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares was 4 points lower at 7,030.COMPANY NEWSHouse builder Redrow (RDW) posted a strong set of results

UK stocks remained directionless at 1pm as investors weighed increasing risks to the global recovery and rising inflation.Sterling gained as the latest UK inflation surprised to the upside. According to the Office for National Statistics, consumer prices jumped 3.2% in the year to August compared with a 2.1% rise the previous month.At 1pm the FTSE 100 index of leading shares was flat at 7,029.COMP

UK stocks made little headway on Wednesday despite a spate of earnings reports which on the whole painted a picture of improving corporate health. By 9.30am the FTSE 100 index of leading stocks was unchanged at 7,033 points.In Asia, Chinese stocks closed lower after August retail sales data disappointed, sending the CSI index down for a fifth day in succession. In Japan on the other hand, the Nikk

Share trading in money transfer business Wise (WISE) will kick off later today after the company saw its stock admitted to the London Stock Exchange (LSE) in what will be seen as a huge test of investor's appetite for high-growth fintech firms.The direct listing of its 994 million shares has been given a reference price of 800p, which is an estimated value from the LSE rather than a fixed price, a

Since the Covid bottom in March 2020, London's FTSE 100 has rebounded by 36% to 7,061.78 points, but the FTSE 250 has rallied an even more impressive 67.8% to 22,813.47 and this index of 'second liners' is testing new highs.Mid cap companies are attractive to investors for a variety of reasons; more established than smaller firms, they are regarded as less risky, yet they also tend to be faster gr