Shares in our client Coyote Copper Mines $CCMM up 32.2% today following the release of our initiation of coverage note.
Read the note here👇
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A busy week for the Optimo Daily Analysis. Here's what we covered:
☢️ Xcite Uranium $XRI: drilling in the camp that produced Canada's first uranium, and the market has noticed
🛒 itim Group $ITIM: back in profit, and still trading below net assets
🔬 Nanoco $NANO: up 28% on no news, so we took another look
🎮 tinyBuild $TBLD: guiding to a full-year ahead of expectations, yet the shares went the other way
🤖 Anthropic: the numbers behind what could be the biggest IPO ever
🚲 Tandem Group $TND: a hot summer, a return to profit and trading at a big discount to NAV
Read all our analysis here for free:
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Tandem Group $TND is back to first-half profitability. @PlcTandem
A few of the headline numbers from this morning's interims:
📈Revenue up 6.7%
📈Gross margin up to 33.3%
📈Adjusted EBITDA more than quadrupled
📉Net debt down 14.6%
📈Sales to the end of August up 9.1%
The divisional performances were mixed, with Bikes up 15% year on year and Home & Garden soaring by 76%. But Toys, Sports & Leisure and Golf saw more difficult trading conditions.
The numbers that really stand out are on the balance sheet, with the shares trading at a substantial discount to NAV and tangible NAV.
There's also the prospect of a dividend for the full year if market expectations are met.
Our full analysis 👇
optimocapital.co.uk/blog/tan…#AIM#UKstocks#smallcaps#tandemgroup
Nanoco Group $NANO is near the top of the leaderboard today, up 28%, with no fresh news out.
We revisit the quantum dot firm, whose last update showed EBITDA of £6.1m and year-end cash of £9.3m, both ahead of forecasts.
Our view 👇
optimocapital.co.uk/blog/nan…
itim Group $ITIM, H1 2026:
• Revenue £8.6m, up from £8.0m
• Recurring revenue 86% of total
• Adjusted EBITDA £1.3m, up from £0.4m
• Back to pre-tax profit of £0.2m
• Net cash £3.1m
Shares at the top of the daily leader board, up 34%
Our analysis 👇optimocapital.co.uk/blog/iti…
itim Group $ITIM has swung back to profit.
The retail software firm posted H1 pre-tax profit of £0.2m against a £0.7m loss a year ago, with recurring revenue now 86% of the total. The shares are up 30%+ on the day.
Our analysis👇
optimocapital.co.uk/blog/iti…
Even after a 30%+ share price jump, @itimLondon itim Group $ITIM trades at a discount to net assets, with net cash covering more than a third of its market cap.
The retail software business is back in profit and building recurring revenue.
Our analysis optimocapital.co.uk/blog/iti…
Xcite Uranium @xciteuranium$XRI.CN shares have more than doubled over the past month after early drilling at the Don Lake project threw up striking radioactivity readings.
LOCATION - the Beaverlodge district that produced Canada's first uranium.
Our write-up in comments👇
SkinBioTherapeutics @SkinBioT$SBTX expects revenues up 20.5% to £4.7m for FY 2026 (to June), driven by a full year's trading from Bio-Tech Solutions.
Early months of FY27 have been ahead of management’s internal expectations. The interim CEO and Chair will now stay on too 👇
Decent set of interims out from Luceco $LUCE and full year profits now expected to be ahead of expectations
Energy Transition growth drove the results, with first half revenue increasing from £2m in 2022 to £18m in 2026
Dividend up nicely too, hiked by 16.7% to 2.1p
Dozens of high-grade projects across British Columbia are too small to build their own mill.
@NicolaMining$NIM.NE owns the one permit that unlocks them all.
New note. Target C$2.93
optimocapital.co.uk/s/Nicola…
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Update on Nicola Mining $NIM.NE
BC's only mill permitted to process 3rd party gold & silver ore, being used to roll up stranded projects across the province
SOTP target: C$2.93/share
optimocapital.co.uk/s/Nicola…
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Huddled Group $HUD: live commerce soft launch.
💷c.£100k weekly sales across gadgets, beauty, groceries
🧑🤝🧑Strong repeat visits & active chat engagement
🛜Live on Whatnot & TikTok, eBay Live next
📈Shares +10%
Our view 👇
optimocapital.co.uk/blog/hud…
Alkemy Capital $ALK: shares +13% on UK government backing.
📈 Up to £18.3m non-dilutive grant (Offer in Principle, DRIVE35)
👷Towards TVL's £185m Teesside lithium refinery
🔋Phase 1: 25,000 tpa battery-grade lithium
Our view 👇
optimocapital.co.uk/blog/alk…
Morning all. Today's UK Stock Market briefing:
#GLE Despite bottlenecks and margin erosion, Gleeson sees FY27 on track
#TRST AI tailwinds buoy Trustpilot
#WIX Design & install service boosts Wickes in H1, Q3 off to a strong start
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