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Three ways to beat the professionals
Thursday 13 Jan 2022Do it yourself investors are taking on the professionals in record numbers and many are beating fund manager professionals. The number of people investing their own money has boomed during the pandemic thanks to low-cost platforms giving people easy and cheap access to the stock market. In 2021,...
There are big obstacles to a Boohoo recovery
Thursday 13 Jan 2022Investors in online fast fashion retailer Boohoo ( BOO:AIM ) could be forgiven for being pretty depressed when examining the share price chart. The stock is languishing some 75% below the 420p peak reached in June 2020 as the pandemic drove young fashionistas online. Boohoo has been hit by the...
10 great stocks: Our best ideas for the year ahead
Thursday 23 Dec 2021Accsys Technologies A ccsys ( AXS:AIM ) is a global leader in sustainable wood technology and sells its products into the construction and building materials industries in the UK, Europe, North America and Asia through timber distributors. Its Accoya wood product is both sustainable and high-...
Stock pick for 2022: Jet2
Thursday 23 Dec 2021In the face of a growing threat of widespread lockdowns it might seem counter-intuitive to invest in a travel and holidays operator. But we believe that as 2022 progresses, Jet2 ( JET2:AIM ) will come roaring back on a tide of Omicron recovery. Analysts at broker Jefferies have named it their top...
Stock pick for 2022: Alphabet
Thursday 23 Dec 2021Google-owner Alphabet ( GOOG ) is a giant in internet advertising. It is growing fast with large technological moats and very attractive operating profit margins of 30%. In five years, it has doubled revenues and is forecast to have generated nearly 40% sales growth alone in 2021. Digital...
Why Meta could produce a positive surprise in 2022
Thursday 23 Dec 2021With the end of the year approaching there has been a renewed wave of angst amongst investors as they ponder the 2022 outlook for social media leviathan Meta Platforms – or Facebook as it was known until recently. There are four reasons why investors are increasingly concerned. First the rise of...
Fund managers: stocks that let us down in 2021
Thursday 23 Dec 2021In the second part of a two-part series Shares talks to various fund managers about the stocks that didn’t work out as they expected in 2021. They explain what went wrong and why the market reacted in the way it did. The first part of the series can be read here and reveals 12 fund managers’ top...
The best performing stocks of 2021: big and small
Thursday 23 Dec 2021We might have thought we’d seen it all after 2020 but it’s been quite a year in 2021 too with an impressive rebound for the markets from the ravages of the pandemic. But which stocks have done best? Read on to discover the top performers up and down the market cap spectrum and find out why they’ve...
Emerging markets: Views from the experts
Thursday 23 Dec 20211. The emergence of the new Covid-19 Omicron variant added uncertainty to the global recovery with financial markets selling off in late November on concerns of new lockdowns and mobility restrictions. On the positive side, early indications from South Africa, where the variant was first discovered...
Key events to watch for emerging markets in 2022
Thursday 23 Dec 2021Looking at the performance of the big emerging markets in 2021 India is a clear winner, with Russia somewhere in the middle and Chinese and Brazilian stocks struggling to keep up. The pandemic remains a key source of uncertainty as we look ahead to 2022 but there are some other key events to watch...