Primary Recommendation

Aldermore - Numis eps forecasts:19.4p, 28.4p, 35.3p

May 2015

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Among the most battered areas of the stock market in the past few years have been shares in the major high street banks. Most of the clearing banks had the ignominity of cutting their dividends, having to carry out horrible rescue rights issues but then despite being refinanced by taxpayers many took a schematic view of lending in the UK and continued to turn down even those customers who were of good credit quality in order to hoard cash. Now forming an increasing part of the sector’s post crisis model are the so-called “challenger banks” - the smaller institutions that have been borne out of the breakdown of the huge money machines, which were torn apart by the financial crisis and these are testing the dominance of traditional ...

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Market Comment - May 2015

Judges Scientific - One large deal planned each year

Aldermore - 313p bid approach (November 2017)

Aldermore - Diversity puts the business in good stead (April 2016)

Aldermore (December 2015)

Aldermore (September 2015)

Aldermore - Record Q1 adds £0.3bn to loan book (June 2015)

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