Emerging companies can be exciting, if risky, prospects for investors. Market Matters reckons these three are intriguing and potentially lucrative picks.
Today we hear from the team behind Shaw and Partners’ James Gerrish at the very different online advice platform Market Matters.
Alongside co-founder former Macquarie and Goldman Sachs macro-analyst Shawn Hickman, Gerrish is the lead author of MM’s daily investment reports – sent to MM members morning and evening, with live alerts across the trading day, whenever they amend portfolios.
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Stockhead has asked the MM team to rate and list, in order of preference, three emerging ASX stocks from its Emerging Companies Portfolio.
The portfolio searches for small & mid capitalisation emerging stocks (ex-100) that show strong underlying growth characteristics.
This is a higher risk portfolio and investors should expect greater volatility in returns.
Source: Market Matters
Gerrish said the objective of the Market Matters Emerging Companies Portfolio was to provide an active exposure to Australian emerging companies, defined as all listed stocks outside the S&P/ASX 100.
“Returns will primarily be achieved through capital appreciation rather than income, with an overall objective of outperformance of the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index over five years,” he said.
Market Matters’ top picks
1. READYTECH (ASX:RDY)
Share price (at time of writing): $2.89
“RDY is a software based educator,” Gerrish said.
“RDY has now fallen over 30 per cent from its spike high in November following a $514 million takeover bid by Pacific Partners at $4.50.
Source: Google Finance
“The stock has been under pressure following its 1H23 result but we believe it can deliver on its longer-term targets, making the current weakness a great value opportunity.”
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2. SRG GLOBAL (ASX:SRG)
Share price: 73c
SRG is a local construction services company.
“SRG’s FY22 results and FY23 outlook provide strong evidence that SRG is delivering on its strategy and is a lower-risk investment when compared to many construction and mining service peers given the recurring nature of a large portion of its revenue,” Gerrish said.
Source: Google Finance
“We believe the stock’s cheap, trading on an Est 10.9x valuation for FY23 while the stock pays an attractive steady 5.5 per cent yield,” Gerrish said.
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3. SILEX SYSTEMS (ASX:SLX)
Share price: $3.81
“A slightly different take on the uranium story,” says Gerrish.
“Silex is developing a laser-enriched uranium technology in conjunction with sector giant Cameco. The demonstration plant in Kentucky is expected to be up and running in around 12 months’ time.
Source: Google Finance
“The company is well funded following a capital raise earlier in the year while the US Government is also likely to support any capital requirements as part of the Inflation Reduction Act – note the supply of High Assay Low Enriched Uranium (HALEU), which the next generation of nuclear reactors require, is heavily reliant on Russia which throws a curve ball into the equation at least short-term.”
Source: Market Matters
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