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Portrait Software - Modestly valued against its ambitions

May 2006

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:
  • PST
  • Price:
  • 17p
Shares in Portrait Software (PST; 17p) hit a new low in March after the group cautioned that sales for the year just ended on 31 March were likely to come in at £11.3m versus market expectations of £12.1m. Most investors didn’t bother reading beyond that point before selling the shares down to current levels and with so much historical baggage, it is easy for them to be rash. But the business is tiny and modestly capitalised against its ambitions. The prize for success could be huge. Portrait, formerly known as AIT, was established in 1986. Throughout its history, it has concentrated on supplying customer facing software for financial services companies to manage the interrogation and presentation of information ...

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