The portfolio’s value increased by 1.2 per cent to £9.8bn, supporting a 4 per cent total accounting return (net asset value per share growth plus dividends) that was at the bottom end of the company’s ...

Interim results from Creightons (CRL: 26.5p), a Peterborough-based manufacturer of beauty products, are far better than the headline numbers would suggest.

WH Smith (SMWH) chief executive Carl Cowling has resigned with immediate effect after an independent review by accountancy firm Deloitte found that revenue in the travel retailer’s North America ...

If Nvidia can beat expectations and maybe offer improved margins that it could calm some nerves. Deeply correlated stocks such as Palantir, TSMC, Super Micro, CoreWeave, Nebius, plus the entire ...

Reports last week suggested Labour will not raise income tax after all, but opt for a patchwork of smaller tax increases and spending cuts instead. Analysts expect measures worth £25bn-£30bn in total ...

ICG (ICG) shares gained 6 per cent after the alternative asset manager beat market expectations in its interim results and announced a private markets partnership with French asset manager Amundi ...

Great Portland Estates (GPE) rightly recognises that it is not going to generate returns above its cost of equity for shareholders simply by collecting income from renting out a portfolio of West End ...

Panmure Liberum analyst Rai Maile pointed out that, including dividends, Imperial Brands has outperformed six of the Magnificent 7 tech stocks over the past year. It has achieved this “because it has ...

Greencore reported higher revenues as a result of new business wins, strong pricing and volume growth. It grew adjusted operating profit by 29 per cent over the year, and its adjusted operating margin ...

Trifast’s (TRI) half-year results came in largely as expected for the six months to September, given the headline figures had been trailed in a trading update last month.

FirstGroup’s (FGP) shares have been on a solid run over the past year. Investors have warmed to the FTSE 250 transport operator’s growing bus business, steady payouts and its plan to expand ...

Lower interest costs also supported the bottom line. Big Yellow has a higher percentage of floating-rate debt within its £571mn debt pile than its peers and so benefits sooner from falling rates. This ...