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9 September 2019 · 3 min read

Duke Royalty (DUKE); reports adjusted post tax profits of £1.83p per share for FY19

Dividend for the period was increased to 2.8p per share, up 33% YoY.

Duke Royalty announced its final results for the year ended 31 March 2019. Total income grew by 240% to £6.1m. Operational cash flow stood at of £4.1m for the period and adjusted post tax profits stood at £2.9m, 1.83p per share.

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Sparks Team
6 September 2019 · 2 min read

Henderson Far East Income (HFEL); allots 100,000 ordinary shares

Henderson Far East Income agreed on 2 September 2019 to allot 100,000 ordinary shares at 368p per share, each fully paid under its block listing facility. NAV per ordinary share as of 30 August 2019 was 358.9p.

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Sparks Team
6 September 2019 · 2 min read

KEFI Minerals (KEFI); issues 21,111,226 new ordinary shares of 0.1p each

Following admission of the 21,111,226 new ordinary shares, the total issued share capital of the company will consist of 744,831,278 ordinary shares

KEFI has received notice from one of its working capital providers to convert £175,000 of the Loan Note issued on 5 August 2019 and associated costs of £8,750 into new KEFI ordinary shares of 0.1p each at a price of 0.87p per share. Therefore, KEFI has allotted and issued 21,111,226 new KEFI ordinary shares of 0.1p each to the loan facility provider.

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Richard Finch
5 September 2019

PPHE Hotel Group; report total revenue increases 4.3%

PPHE has delivered another solid set of results with like-for-like EBITDA (excluding IFRS16) up 6% and like-for-like RevPAR up 8% which shows continued momentum from Q1. Progress was across the board although London looks arguably to have stolen the show outperforming a buoyant market (RevPar +5%).  The company confirms an extensive £300m investment programme while as open and as patient as ever in terms of acquisitions

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Sparks Team
5 September 2019 · 3 min read

Target Healthcare REIT (THRL); non-pre-emptive placing of equity proposed

Under its existing Placing Programme, Target Healthcare will issue new ordinary shares at 110.5p per share at a 6.2% discount to the closing price on the last business day prior to the placing announcement. The issue price also represents a 2.8% premium to EPRA NAV for each ordinary share of 107.5 pence as of 30 June 2019.

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Sparks Team
5 September 2019 · 2 min read

HgCapital Trust (HGT); announces realisation in Register Group

The company will release the 30 June 2019 interim results on 9 September 2019.

HgCapital Trust announced a realisation in Register Group, a digital service provider for professionals. Register Group will be acquired by team.blue, a European digital enabler for companies.

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4 September 2019

Frontier Developments; reports FY results

Frontier reported EBITDA of £29m (FY18 £9.4m) and EPS of 45.4p (FY18 9.6p)

As was seen at the Interims, FY19 has seen a big step up for Frontier with revenues of £89m (FY18 £34.2m), reflecting the success of Jurassic World Evolution (2m units in 1st 7 months), which launched in June 2018 (FY19), on top of continuing sales from Elite Dangerous (2014)  and Planet Coaster (2016).

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4 September 2019

Allied Minds; raises $51 million in Series C financing

Even excluding net cash, the NAV of these two portfolio companies comes to 57p, against a share price today of 59p

Allied Minds, the technology holding company, announced today $51m in Series C financing for one of its portfolio companies Federated Wireless, a player in Citizen Band Radio Service (CBRS), to accelerate its roll-out in the US.

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Sparks Team
4 September 2019

BioPharma Credit (BPCR); report half-year results

Shares in issue stood at 1,373.9m.

BioPharma Credit announced its half-year report for the period ended 30 June 2019. The company invested a total of $165m during the period. Net assets for the period stood at $1,409.4m.

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Sparks Team
4 September 2019 · 2 min read

Oxford Biomedica (OXB); interim results: H1 2019 revenue down 9% YoY

Oxford Biomedica reported that its operating loss for the half stood at £1.4m vs operating profit of £9.4m in H1 2018. According to Oxford this was due to lower revenues and increased expenditure aimed at strengthening operation and strategic capacity. For the six months ended 30 June 2019, revenue from bioprocessing and commercial development was up 23% YoY.

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