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Braemar – Poor results, short-term uncertainty, lower order book, all give disappointing background, shares looking very toppy at 255p, despite brokers lowered TP of 320p

29.05.2025 Regular readers will know just how bullish I have been over the years about the prospects for Braemar (LON:BMS) the...

UK Small Caps need investor attention - Morningstar

29.05.2025 Morningstar today published its report on UK Small Caps and why they require investor attention. Its analysts estimate that...

Filtronic wins new contract with defence prime Leonardo

29.05.2025 This morning the £274m-capitalised Filtronic (LON:FTC), has announced a new contract with Leonardo for the supply of...

Gulf Marine Services – Aiming to be the world’s best SESV operator, this ‘Forward and Upward Focused’ group is undervalued at 18.80p, brokers TP 32p

28.05.2025 If you are lucky enough to be in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, then perhaps this Thursday you should pop into the...

SRT Marine Systems – it is beginning to show its mettle, its shares, now 64p are on the rise, my Target Price is 100p before 2025 is over

28.05.2025 Yesterday’s news from SRT Marine Systems (LON:SRT), my favourite maritime domain awareness solutions group, certainly...

Mark Watson-Mitchell

Director of SQC Research

Mark, who has over sixty years’ experience in the UK stock market, established SQC Research in 1993. He previously worked as a dealer for four stockbroking firms and an investment fund management business. Prior to SQC Research he published financial and investment magazines and newsletters.

His writing portfolio has covered weekly feature articles on smaller companies for the Financial Weekly, Shares Magazine, Fleet Street Letter, USM Investor, Portfolio Intelligence, UK-Invest and other investment websites including watshot.com, and a number of monthly publications including Fleet Street Letter, Penny Share Focus, Penny Share Guide and the New Issue Share Guide.

His regular appearances on BBC TV, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, The Money Channel, Channel Four and BBC Radio always featured smaller companies and he also made several appearances on

Channel 4's 'Show Me The Money'.

Mark, who has held several directorships in AIM and other quoted companies, is now also a very regular contributing author to the UK Investor and masterinvestor.com websites.

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