#MER £3.83
Mears Group Interim results:
❌Revenue -4% to £559.4m
✅PBT +5% at £32m
✅Operating margin improved to 5.6%.
✅Diluted EPS +20% to 27.68p
✅HY dividends +18% to 5.6p

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#EPWN🆙 +30%✅£1.185✅
RECOMMENDED ACQUISITION of Epwin by Laumann

✅Under the terms of the Acquisition, Epwin Shareholders will be entitled to receive £1.20 p/s in cash.
✅A premium of 31.9% to closing price.

🙌Huge congratulations to @MGinvestor on X & all $EPWN shareholders🙌

#LGEN❌ -2%❌£2.55
HY Results
✅Core operating profit +6% to £859m
✅Core operating EPS of 10.94p +9%
✅IFRS PBT[2] of £406m +28%
✅Solvency II capital generation of £729m +3%
✅Solvency II coverage ratio of 217%
✅Retail: Workplace net new flows of £4bn +21%
✅Dividend 6.12p +2%

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#BBOX £1.425 #REIT
MT @TickerOfficial
#TritaxBigBox H1 2025:
✅Net rental income +17.3% to £149.2m.
✅Operating profit +16.4% to £144.1m.
✅Adjusted EPS +6.4% to 4.63p.
✅Portfolio value +4.1% to £6.82bn.
✅IFRS NAV £1.8674p Vs 1.8412p
✅Dividend 1.915p p/s😉ex-dividend date 14/8/25

#ZTF 🆙+15%✅ £3.22✅
✅Record H1 sales performance, with Group reported revenue up 9% to £77.4m (HY 2024: £71.1m), representing constant currency growth of 10%
✅PBT up 37% to a record £11.4m
✅Basic EPS up 55% to 19.99p
✅ #Zotefoams Interim dividend +5% to 2.5p

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#DGE🆙 +6%✅£19.29✅
👉Net sales fell 0.1% to $20.24bn
❌Operating profit for 2025 fell 27.8 per cent $4.33bn year on year
✅Net cash flow increased by $0.2 billion to $4.3 billion
❌ $DGE Raised its estimate of the impact from US tariffs to $200M per year

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$TSLA 🆙+4%✅ $370.40✅

@FT on X
Breaking: #Tesla’s board has approved the award of 96mn shares worth about $30bn to #ElonMusk as part of a new pay deal after the billionaire CEO threatened to leave the electric vehicle maker if he is not given more stock. on.ft.com/47cplzR

🤔Was it ever in doubt?

#BP. +1% £4.025✅

MT @JavierBlas on X
$BP says it made its largest oil exploration discovery in 25 years

(1-BP-13-SPS at the Bumerangue block offshore Brazil)

*With all the caveats of a company under pressure to show off and that BP says further appraisal of the discovery is needed*

I hold $BP.L

#CKN Interims
❌Revenue £297.8m Vs £310.1m
❌U/lying PBT* £39.4m Vs £51.5m
❌Reported PBT £37.5m Vs £50.1m
❌U/lying B/EPS* 98.6p Vs 129.1p
❌Reported B/EPS 93p Vs 124.6p
✅Interim dividend per share 33p Vs 32p
✅23rd consecutive year of dividend increases

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#PCA +0.4%✅£2.20✅
✅Proposed Return of Capital to Shareholders by way of a Tender Offer at £2.40 = a 9.6% premium to 29/7/25
✅A discount to 31/3/25 EPRA NAV of 4.4%

😊My $PCA.L REIT 5 years Annualised Total Returns = 8.7%✅
My patience with this #REIT is paying #dividends.
I will take up this offer👍

#JUST 🆙 +68%✅£2.12✅
✅Recommended cash offer at £2.20 p/s for Just Group by BWS Holdings Ltd
✅A 75%💥premium to last closing price of £1.26
👍Congrats to all $JUST shareholders😊

Another FTSE #takeover, this time it by Canada's Brookfield Wealth Solutions.

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#GDWN✅+14%✅£85✅
After these exceptional results:
CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT
"✅I am pleased to report a record level of profits for the Group
✅The "Trading" pre-tax profit was £35.5 million an increase of 47%
✅revenue of £220 million, which is up 15%"
$GDWN
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#FOXT HY RESULTS:
✅Revenue £86.1m +10%
✅PBT £10.2m +35%
✅EPS 2.5p +32%
✅ #Dividends increased by 9%
✅" #FOXTONS delivered strong revenue and adjusted operating profit growth in the first half of the year, marking a fifth consecutive year of financial progress"

#AZN🆙 +2%✅£110.37✅
#AstraZeneca H1 & Q2 2025
✅Revenue increased 9% to $28,045m
✅Core EPS +17% to $4.66
✅Interim #dividends +3% to $1.03.
✅Q2 revenue up 12% to $14,457m.
✅Core operating profit grew 13%.
😊I continue to hold $AZN.L shares since 1994👍
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#FORT 🆙 +11%✅£2.05✅
MT #TickerOfficial
✅ $FORT reports strong H1 with revenue up 20.4% to £195.1m
✅Adjusted PBT surges 82.4%
✅Operating cash flow surges 125.6%.
✅ #Forterra Full year expectations raised. ticker.app/lse/FORT/rns...

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#CRDA❌-0.66%❌ £28.80❌
✅Sales £855.8m Vs £815.9m +4.9%
❌Operating profit £94.4m Vs £114.4m -17.5%
❌Profit before tax £85.5m Vs £106.1m -19.4%
❌Basic EPS 43.8p Vs 57.2p -23.4%
✅ $CRDA interim dividends 48p Vs 47p +2.1%

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#GAW 🆙+0.46%✅£153.30✅
✅Revenue £617.5m Vs £525.7m
✅PBT £262.8m Vs £203m
✅Earnings per share 594.9p Vs 458.8p
✅ $GAW declare 55p per share of #dividends
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#CWR🆙 +44%✅£1.45✅
MT #ProactiveInvestor Ceres jumps 44% as Doosan begins mass production of fuel cells using $CWR's UK tech tinyurl.com/22tnmnhj

🎉Huge congratulations to @TheLongerGame & @CeresPower shareholders🎉

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#WG. shares remain suspended.
🤜Wood Group “there is now commercial alignment on the headline terms of the proposed refinancing in connection with the Possible Offer with Sidara”
🤜PUSU extended to 25/8/25
😷⚠️🧮As discussed here youtu.be/ORfAjAyNPFs?... I hold a speculative tranche of $WG.L 🧩SOTP

#EMAN🆙 +7%✅ 44p✅
MT TickerOfficial
✅Everyman Media Group H1 admissions up 15%
✅Revenue increases 21% to £56.5m.
✅EBITDA jumps 33% to £8.2m.
- Trading in line with expectations.
- Interim results due 24 Sept 2025. ticker.app/lse/EMAN/rns...

#LABS❌-3%❌42p❌
As its woeful declining NAV performance continues
❌Unaudited EPRA NTA as at 30/6/25 was £232.1m or 66.3p a 10.9% decline from the 31/12/24
🤔"The Company has received a significant amount of interest from a range of sources"
🙄Life Science REIT sale process🧮continues

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#CBG🆙 +3%✅ £4.26✅
Close Brothers has agreed to sell its execution services & securities business, Winterflood Securities (" #Winterflood") to Marex for approximately £103.9M in cash.

NB. $CBG.L shares hit a low of <£1.80 in Nov'24
👏Congrats to patient shareholders👏

😊DD👍
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#Blackstone 🆙 +2%✅ $176.58✅
$BX 2025 Q2 Results:
✅Revenue $3.71 Billion +48% YoY
✅Adj. EPS: $1.21 +26% YoY
✅AUM $1.21 Trillion +13% YoY
✅ $BX COO, "We have the largest forward IPO pipeline since 2021"

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#DSCV❌-3%❌£6.89❌
Group's performance in the Period was in line with the guidance provided at the time of the FY2024/25 results & the Board's expectations for adjusted earnings for FY2025/26 remain unchanged.

✅Group sales for the Period were 3% AHEAD of last year at CER(1)
🤔ATM I continue to hold🤔

#ALPH 🆙+25%✅ £41.57✅
✅RECOMMENDED CASH ACQUISITION of ALPHA GROUP INTERNATIONAL PLC by CORPAY INC. for £42.50 in cash per share.

✅A 71% premium to #Alpha's volume-weighted-average price of £24.81 per share for the one-month period ended 1 May 2025.

🔥Huge congratulations to all $ALPH s/holders🔥

#CMCL🆙+10%✅ £17.96✅
✅ $CMCL shares are🆙+134% ytd✅

$CMCL.L the #gold producer, told investors it expects to report a profit for its Q2, that it's performance is set to be MATERIALLY BETTER THAN EXPECTED!
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👏Congratulations Caledonia Mining & shareholders👏

Thank you Scott, your kind words of support are much appreciated👍
Wrt my 1 month success of +39%✅profitable return with #APAX at its £1.65 #takeover price😊👍

🤞My next takeover #RMV or #SN. 🤞

$PM Q2 2025 Results
Top-line miss, bottom-line beat
❌Revenue: $10.14Bn ($10.32Bn expected)
✅EPS: $1.91 ($1.86 expected)
❌PMI misses at the top-line (or bottom-line) for the first-time since Q4 2023
✅Philip Morris FY25 Outlook, EPS Raised: $7.43–$7.56 vs. $7.49 est