Primary Recommendation

Alfa Financial - 37% compound growth 2013-2016

September 2017

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.

Alfa Financial Software - not to be confused with our recent write up Alpha FX - provides software that helps asset finance companies manage all kinds of financing contracts. Founded in 1991 and never having received venture capital, it has developed the best technology platform in the business, adopted even by the biggest asset finance companies such as Bank of America, Barclays, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz and Nordea.Alfa has already grown its sales and operating profit by 27% and 37% compound, respectively, in the three years 2013-2016 - all organic - and management is bursting with confidence on prospects. So much so that even despite the high rating, the directors only chose to sell 28.5% of the equity, just above the 25% required f ...

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