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Crowdfunding Initiative from Finncap www.finnCap.com finnCap www.finnCap.com NOVEMBER 2014 THE ONLINE MONTHLY FOR THE ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT MARKET JOURNAL In this issue ShareSoc wants nominee reform GENERAL NEWS Private shareholder pressure group UK to exercise. Holding shares via a nominee Quartix flotation Independent Shareholders Society (ShareSoc) account means that the investor is not a 02 has launched a campaign to reform UK share member of the company. ownership and in particular the system of In its document, Guaranteed Votes For nominee accounts. ShareSoc argues that the All Shareholders, ShareSoc argues: “The ADVISERS current nominee system has disenfranchised nominee system must be both reformed fAN Club crowd the majority of private shareholders and and usage curtailed, with most investors 03 undermined their right to have a say in the placed on the share register of the company. running of companies. It argues that there In addition, tax efficient vehicles such as should be substantial changes so it is easy for ISAs and SIPPs must support direct share NEWS all shareholders to vote. registration of investors rather than require MartinCo’s Legal Private shareholders predominantly hold the use of nominee accounts.” 04 move their shares in nominee accounts. ShareSoc ShareSoc highlights the Australian argues that the nominee system takes more settlement system (CHESS) because it retains account of the interests of brokers and the principle of individual shareholder names NEWS other advisers and many of the rights of being registered, which enables the company shareholders on the register are lost or difficult to continue to contact shareholders directly. Castleton 06 acquisition H-Scores point to performance DIVIDENDS Walker Greenback Company Watch says that the share prices of of less than 25. Share prices of companies 07 design companies with high H-Scores, the measure it in this area are twice as likely to more than uses to analyse the financial health of quoted halve and ten times as likely to slump by companies, perform more strongly than those more than 90%. EXPERT VIEWS with low H-Scores. Fund manager Anthony The figures have been calculated for Front line views Bolton has written about how he looks at the UK and international companies over 08 on AIM H-Score of a company when he is considering the past five years. Companies with an investing. H-Score of more than 25 outperform the FEATURE H-Scores are calculated by analysing rest on average by more than 8%. This the accounts of companies and assessing outperformance is consistent over the years, AIM Awards 2014 the characteristics of financially distressed excluding volatile markets during 2008. 09 companies and also assessing the A guide to the methodology of H-Scores characteristics of successful companies. with examples of how they can help to Company Watch monitors the financial health predict good and poor performance is STATISTICS of businesses using H-Scores and the warning available for free from Market indices and area for financial frailty is classed as an H-Score [email protected] 11 statistics HubInvest publishes AIM Journal www.hubinvest.com finnCap www.finnCap.com general news Quartix raises profile with AIM Fyffes bid off Vehicle tracking and data services information and data. Customers Bananas supplier Fyffes has provider Quartix Holdings has joined are signed up for an initial 12-month terminated its proposed merger AIM, which will help to increase the period but once signed up they tend with Chiquita Brands International profile of the business in the UK and to stay. The hardware and installation after the latter’s shareholders voted overseas. Quartix already supplies costs are written off immediately and against the deal due to a potential equipment and services in France Quartix will generally start making $14.50 a share bid from a Brazilian and recently opened an office in money on a contract within nine consortium of fruit-juice maker Chicago, although this operation is months. The insurance business, Cutrale and investment bank Safra. still at an early stage. which has installed 67,000 telematics The original deal was announced The £11.4m raised at the placing systems, generates revenues from the in March but a revised agreement price of 116p a share will all go to insurance companies rather than the in September meant that Chiquita the founders and other existing vehicle users. shareholders would have increased shareholders. There is no new money In 2013, revenues increased from their stake in the merged company being raised and the business is £8.3m to £13.2m, with £9.2m coming from 50.7% to 59.6%. The offer was cash generative although it does from fleets and £4m from insurance changed to 0.1113 of a Chiquita have to spend money on technology customers, while profit improved share for each Fyffes share. At the development. Net debt was £2.1m at from £2.8m to £4.6m. In the six same time the termination fee the end of June 2014. A dividend of months to June 2014, revenues payable to Fyffes was increased 50% of free cash flow is planned. increased from £6.2m to £7.4m, while from 1% to 3.5% of the value of Quartix focuses on smaller underlying pre-tax profit improved the share capital of Chiquita. Fyffes businesses and it has more than from £2.1m to £2.5m. is entitled to this fee if there is a 6,000 customers paying monthly The fleet management systems successful bid for Chiquita within subscriptions for more than 56,000 market in Europe is forecast to grow nine months. In the first half of vehicles. Quartix installs the hardware at 16% a year between 2012 and 2014, Fyffes incurred merger costs and charges £20 a month to provide 2017. of €8.3m. Hargreaves rejects generation option for higher dividends Following its strategic review, sector projects, possibly via a joint £3m to close the coke works and Hargreaves Services has decided not venture, but it is committed to a further £1.8m for remediation of to go ahead with any investment the dividend and share buy-back the property. This will be more than in coal-fired power generation policies so any investment would covered by the £22m of working and instead will be paying higher have to be funded from existing capital that could be released dividends to shareholders. Coal resources without affecting this new over the next two years, providing supplier Hargreaves also intends to policy. additional funds for buy-backs or a buy back shares. Hargreaves has also started a one-off dividend. There will be a continued focus consultation process for the future As a consequence of the changed on the core coal operations, which of its Monckton coke works in dividend policy, WH Ireland has will provide spare cash. This will Yorkshire. This process should be increased its dividend forecast for enable Hargreaves to pay 40% of its completed in December. Although the year to May 2016 from 28.9p underlying earnings in dividends Monckton could make a profit of a share to 42p a share. This would from 2015-16. The company also £2m this year, once the higher- provide a dividend yield of 6.4%. intends to buy back up to 10% of margin contracts end it will struggle Hargreaves is expected to have its shares and it will start after the unless market conditions improve minimal net debt by the end of renewal of permission is passed at significantly. If Monckton is closed May 2016. Given potential energy the AGM on 5 November. then the cancelling of contracts shortages the ongoing business is in Management will consider energy will wipe out the profit. It will cost a good position. 2 November 2014 HubInvest publishes AIM Journal HubInvest publishes AIM Journal www.hubinvest.com www.hubinvest.com www.finnCap.com finnCap www.finnCap.com advisers Crowdfunding initiative from finnCap Leading AIM broker and nominated listed and private companies”. Wine companies. InvestingZone has adviser finnCap, sponsor of AIM maker Chapel Down, an ISDX-quoted developed online financial reporting Journal, has launched an equity client of finnCap, recently raised and shareholder voting tools for the crowdfunding service in association £3.95m, with £2.2m of the money companies. with InvestingZone. This service is part coming from crowdfunding via Seedrs. finnCap’s quarterly survey of non- of the offering of the finnCap Angel It was the first company quoted on a executive directors showed that nearly Network (fAN Club) and will be open UK market to raise money this way. two-thirds of the 50 directors on the to quoted and unquoted companies. fAN Club has already worked with panel said that their companies would finnCap chairman Jon Moulton is InvestingZone (www.investingzone. seek additional finance in the next chairman of the advisory board of com) on two fundraisings. Online 12 months. However, two-thirds also InvestingZone. contact lenses retailer GetLenses.co.uk thought that UK banks are not doing Sam Smith, chief executive of raised £8.5m and WiFi service provider enough to help companies to grow. finnCap, says that “traditional banking Wifinity raised £400,000. There was a split over peer-to-peer models are not providing adequate finnCap will conduct due diligence lending, with 24 in favour, 20 against access to growth capital for ambitious on all the potential investee and six classed as other. ADVISER CHANGES - OCTOBER 2014 COMPANY NEW BROKER OLD BROKER NEW NOMAD OLD NOMAD DATE CEB Resources Peterhouse/Sanlam Peterhouse/N+1 Singer Sanlam N+1 Singer 01/10/2014 Lansdowne Oil & Gas Cantor Fitzgerald Cenkos Cantor Fitzgerald Cenkos 01/10/2014 Lok'nStore finnCap
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