MIDAS SHARE TIPS: Eve Sleep a bet on a miserable winter, when families may want to upgrade their mattresses without trawling round shops first By Rosie Murray-west, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:53 BST, 19 September 2020 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 19 September 2020 With insomnia a feature of this pandemic for many of us, … Read more
MIDAS SHARE TIPS: Genus, an animal genetics company aiming to feed the world, still bringing home the bacon By Rosie Murray-west, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 12 September 2020 | Updated: 22:23 BST, 12 September 2020 Genetically engineered, virus-free specimens and semen for sale that guarantees offspring of a certain gender: thankfully, Genus … Read more
MIDAS SHARE TIPS: Want profits to rise? Put an ingredient like baking giant Associated British Foods in your mix of investments By Rosie Murray-west, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 12 September 2020 | Updated: 22:22 BST, 12 September 2020 We’re constantly told that shops in these tricky times can only succeed by selling … Read more
MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: Civitas Social Housing has seen its share price rise 11% in three years – can it continue? By Joanne Hart for The Mail on Sunday Published: 16:44 BST, 8 September 2020 | Updated: 16:44 BST, 8 September 2020 Civitas Social Housing specialises in supported homes. Bigger and more established than Triple Point, … Read more
Property companies have been hit hard by the lockdown and its aftermath. Shops and restaurants are struggling. Offices are largely empty. No one wants to pay expensive rents, set before Covid-19 upended life as we know it. Some property firms are more resilient than others, however, and one is Triple Point Social Housing, founded in … Read more
MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: Economic prospects remain uncertain, but is a fair wind blows for Vent-Axia? By Joanne Hart, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:50 BST, 29 August 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 29 August 2020 Volution chief executive Ronnie George has been at the helm for eight years and has worked at the ventilation … Read more
It seems hard to believe, but 23 years ago, just one in six UK households had a mobile phone. Today, 95 per cent have one. In Africa, less than half the population has a mobile and most of those are old-fashioned, slow and simple, rather than the all-singing, all-dancing smartphones that consumers in the developed … Read more
MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: Poultry firm Cranswick lays a golden egg as Britons consume 20m chickens every week By Joanne Hart, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:54 BST, 22 August 2020 | Updated: 21:54 BST, 22 August 2020 Britons consume 20million chickens and several hundred thousand pigs every week. During lockdown, we ate even more. … Read more
In 1999, a Canadian mining company, Taseko, bought a mothballed copper mine in the middle of British Columbia. At the time, copper was trading at 50c (38p) a pound, the mine was uneconomical and the vendors were keen to dispose of it. Taseko paid a dollar for the asset, known as Gibraltar. Today, the mine … Read more
Walk into any branch of Boots and chances are that the pharmacy’s own-brand anti-viral hand foam will be on prominent display. Hand sanitiser is today’s must-have item, products are flying off the shelves and Boots is still limiting sales because of high demand. All hand-cleansers are not created equal, however. Many only work for a … Read more
MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: Our games tip Codemasters rises 42% in seven months By Joanne Hart, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:59 BST, 15 August 2020 | Updated: 21:59 BST, 15 August 2020 Video game specialist Codemasters is another British company to have defied the prevailing economic gloom. Best known for its F1 series, Codemasters … Read more
MIDAS SHARE TIPS: Games Workshop’s fantasy game stores make real money By Rosie Murray-west For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:30 BST, 1 August 2020 | Updated: 22:57 BST, 1 August 2020 It’s easy to think of Games Workshop as a niche retailer beloved only of teenage boys, but the company behind the Warhammer and … Read more
Care homes have had a torrid time during the coronavirus pandemic. Thousands of lives have been lost, staff safety has been compromised and relatives have been unable to see their loved ones. This desperate situation has spread a pall over the entire sector. But Caretech Holdings focuses on care for children and young adults with … Read more