Mark Watson-Mitchell – 13.10.2026 This morning’s announcement from the £2.1bn-capitalised Greencore Group (LON:GNC) was a Q4 Trading Update covering the foods group’s year to Friday 25th September. It showed Greencore ended FY26 strongly, with volume growth ahead of the market, and an excellent profit momentum and positive cashflow generation, while it has further upgraded its FY26 Adjusted Operating Profit guidance. The shares, which are now trading at 260p, have 300p writ

Mark Watson-Mitchell – 12.10.2026 The £45m-capitalised Gattaca (LON:GATC), the specialist staffing solutions business, will declare its Final Results for the year to end-July on Tuesday, 3rd November. They will be impressive and are expected to point toward a very positive 2027 trading year. The Group’s shares, now 145p, have risen nearly 62% since the beginning of the year, after having peaked at 175p in August. I now expect that the shares will edge better, especially ahe

Mark Watson-Mitchell - 08.10.2026 Look out next Tuesday morning, 13th October, for the Interim Results statement from the £36.5m-capitalised leading omni-channel specialist fishing tackle and equipment retailer Angling Direct (LON:ANG). For the first half year, it should be reporting continued sales growth while delivering operational efficiencies from prior-year investments. It is expected to comment upon the Group’s sustained progress against its updated medium-term objecti

Mark Watson-Mitchell - 07.10.2026 Next Tuesday, 13th October, the £1.95bn-capitalised Greencore Group (LON:GNC) will be informing the market with its Q4 Trading Update and also about its integration progress and delivery following the massive Bakkavor acquisition that was completed in January this year. In February 2025, Greencore made its first offer for the Bakkavor Group with a view that the enlarged group would create a leading UK convenience food business with a combin

Mark Watson-Mitchell - 07.10.2026 Ahead of a Capital Markets Event in the shape of an investor strategy teach-in being held today, Avon Technologies (LON:AVON) has provided a Trading Update for the year to end-September. It is expecting results to be ahead of market expectations with revenue growth of approximately 12.5% and adjusted operating profit margins comfortably above the guided 14-16% range. The Group's new "Improve. Grow. Compound." strategy aims for annual revenue

Mark Watson-Mitchell - 06.10.2026 This coming Thursday, 8th October, the £1.3bn-capitalised Volution Group (LON:FAN) will declare its 2026 Final Results to end-June. The Company is a leading international designer and manufacturer of energy efficient indoor air quality solutions. Over the last year, the Group’s shares have ranged in price from 547p to 730p and they are now trading at around the mid-level at 657p. City analysts are looking for the Group’s shares to gradua

SRT Marine awareness in operation Mark Watson-Mitchell - 02.10.2026 I always like to see ‘Company Insiders’ committing to their equities. So, when I noted a couple of months ago that Oliver Plunkett, a Non-Executive Director at SRT Marine Systems (LON:SRT) had added another 190,456 shares to his holding, paying 77.96p each for his purchase, I believe that it emphasised his confidence in the group. Plunkett is a board member of and CEO of the Ocean Infinity Group, the Company'

Mark Watson-Mitchell - -01.10.2026 Many investors in the £520m-capitalised communication products group Filtronic (LON:FTC) must be hoping for another big share price run like that enjoyed from end-March to end-May this year. It was in that period the market got over-excited about the US launch of the SpaceX IPO, taking any shares in companies with an extra-terrestrial connection to new price Highs. In those two months the shares of Filtronic, the designer and manufacturer

Mark Watson-Mitchell - 29.09.2026 Tomorrow, Wednesday 30th September, the £11.5m-capitalised DSW Capital (LON:DSW) will hold its AGM for its year to end-March, I look for some positive corporate comment to follow, which should help to push its shares higher in price. The Group is a profitable, mid-market, challenger professional services licence network and owner of the Dow Schofield Watts and the DR Solicitors brands. DSW provides a very useful range of advice for companie

Mark Watson-Mitchell - 29.09.2026 I have to say that I am delighted for SQC Research followers who took heed of my comments yesterday after the announcement of the results from Winvia Entertainments (LON:WVIA). The conclusion to yesterday morning's article on the gaming group's figures was to state clearly that I stuck to my 300p Target Price for its shares, then 247.50p. Just before 3pm today that 300p price tag was scored, before easing back to 296p as I write. I have a str

Mark Watson-Mitchell - 24.09.2026 Just seven weeks ago, on Friday 7th August, I profiled Ashtead Technology Holdings (LON:AT.) predicting that the group’s shares would climb 25% to 525p over the next year – well I was wrong and I was right! The then £337m-capitalised group’s shares were trading at 419p. The profile on the company, which is leading provider of subsea technology solutions to the global offshore energy sector, was ahead of its Interim Results being announced a

Mark Watson-Mitchell – 11.08.2026 Ahead of this morning’s 9.30am AGM, CML Microsystems (LON:CML) has issued a very positive Trading Update. It has stated that the business entered FY27 with strong momentum, continuing a positive trend from the prior year's final quarter with both revenue growth and an improving order intake. Trading in the opening months of the current financial year has been robust, with revenue in line with and order intake ahead of expectations, driven b

The US-bid for Ramsdens still shows through as the star performer, while Filtronic is looking to build up its price recovery after recent results. This week we have the Interims from Costain Group, aiming to beat the excellent showing of the Chemring Group, while Currys is continuing to improve, with Sigmaroc coming up close behind. Overall, the portfolio is up a market-beating 30.03% over the last 93 market days. The ten companies selected on Monday, 23rd March, were as fo

Mark Watson-Mitchell - 22.07.2026 Even at my age I am still being told that I am too early. Just over three weeks ago, on Monday 6th July, I called the market higher. Then it was just 253 points away from hitting a new All-Time High. Standing at 10681.78 it was, in my view, just a fraction away to that 10,934.90 that was scored at the end of February this year. I did conclude my article by stating that Donald throwing a wobbly could throw its progress off course. And he did -

Mark Watson-Mitchell - 20.07.2026 The star performer position in the has changed in a quite dramatic fashion. Almost from the start, some 82 market days ago in late March, Filtronic (LON:FTC) was the outright portfolio leader, with its shares rising from 145p to a top of 485p - a quite staggering performance, helped somewhat by the mega-IPO of the SpaceX group over in the States. However, the expression 'what goes up must come down' prevailed to see FTC now at 245p, but sti

Mark Watson-Mitchell – 02.07.2026 Having risen from 145p to 480p on Thursday 21st May, the shares of Filtronic, in one of the UK markets ‘fliers’ in 2026, recorded an impressive 331% price gain for the SQC Research Recovery Portfolio. That increase was a reaction to the very strong investor interest surrounding the massive US IPO of SpaceX, to whom Filtronic is a key supplier. That significant ‘space sector’ push inevitably saw prices fall back after the float, with Filtro

Mark Watson-Mitchell - 26.05.2026 Not many, perhaps if just a few, companies have seen their shares more than quadruple in the last year; however, Filtronic (LON:FTC) has certainly done that, having risen from 114p last September. After hitting 480p at one stage last week, its shares fell back quite considerably to close the week at 379p, but still continued to show the other portfolio constituents a very clean pair of heels, having put on a very useful 161.38% advance in

Mark Watson-Mitchell - 16.05.2026 It continues to show a truly stellar performance in the SQC Research Market Recovery Portfolio - the shares of Filtronic (LON:FTC) closed the week at 405p, showing a healthy 179.31% gain in just 37 Trading Days. They obviously have come in for an amount of profit-taking in the last week after having touched 420p on Thursday 7th May. It is very evident that 'space fever' is building up ahead of Elon Musk's mega-billions IPO within the next m

Mark Watson-Mitchell - 13.04.2026 The ten companies selected were as follows: AO World (LON:AO.) @ 85p now 95.50p +12.35% Ashtead Technology Holdings (LON:AT.) @ 390p now 472.60p +21.18% Chemring Group (LON:CHG) @ 485p now 547p +12.78% Costain Group (LON:COST) @ 177p now 197.60p +11.64% Currys (LON:CURY) @ 128p now 134.10p +4.77% Filtronic (LON:FTC) @ 145p now 194p +33.79% James Fisher & Sons (LON:FSJ) @ 470p now 481p +2.34% Ramsdens Holdings (LON:RFX) @ 340p now

Mark Watson-Mitchell - 06.02.2026 This morning, I was interested to note that Rick Kanda, Managing Director at The Gold Bullion Company, shared his thoughts on why this drop has happened, if investors should be worried about price drops, and whether you should invest when prices drop. Why are gold and silver prices dropping? "In recent weeks, gold and silver have hit successive highs due to a rise in demand among investors seeking safe haven assets amid rising geopolitical t