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Planet Payment - Interesting niche player in online payments

December 2013

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.

  • Epic Code:
  • PPT
  • Price:
  • 148p
At SCSW, sometimes when we meet a company the story that comes across can be out of kilter to the market's perception. More often than not, we find the true picture is worse (most small PLCs look like they are held together with string) but sometimes we see potential for a serious growth stock. One such firm is the Long Island-based firm, Planet Payments, which has been listed on AIM since  2006 and dual listed on NASDAQ in 2012 (because of its US status your broker may ask you to fill in a W-8BEN form if you want to buy the shares). Planet almost has echoes of when SCSW alighted on Optimal Payments (OPAY; 333p) a year ago and which has been rising vertically ever since. The company's historical mainstay is in multi-currency ...

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