Primary Recommendation

Strix - Whos who of institutional buyers

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.

Last month I touched on kettle controls business Strix ahead of its market debut on 8 August. The business has Google/Microsoft type operating margins but what was puzzling was the way in which it had joined AIM - with 100% of the equity offloaded by a venture capital backer - and also the very low rating.On SCSW I like to keep an open mind and since then I have met chief executive Mark Bartlett and finance director Ms Raudres Wong. I met them just an hour or so after they had rung the Stock Exchange Bell to mark their entry to AIM. The company therefore hasn’t yet been introduced to the mainstream press and is relatively unknown but I found Bartlett, who has been with Strix since 2006, proficient in answering my questions. This k ...

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