Primary Recommendation

Tikit - Charles Stanley forecast all time record profit next year after cost cuts

April 2010

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

Last month our main write-up was First Derivatives (FDP; 280p), a business that provides consultancy and trading & risk management software to investment banks, which has a similar business model to Tikit, the largest independent supplier of systems to legal practices. The common strand linking both these businesses is that they have been successfully supplying third party software and IT consultancy to their respective markets for over 15 years and both have sought to accelerate growth in three ways; by developing their own high margin software, expanding into other professional markets and opening offices overseas.However, that is where the similarity ends. Both have seen a downturn in the pr ...

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