RE: Case for investment in a nutshell27 Jan 2026 10:26
I think your assessment is fair. The market isn’t being impatient; it’s applying a rational discount after several years where structure and pipeline visibility outpaced contracted scale. The share price reflects that history. What has changed is business quality. LST now has three coherent pillars, real revenue, granted IP, and exposure to regulated or regulation-adjacent markets where trust and provenance matter. CEM remains the low-margin base, AgTech is still early but technically validated, and Injectaclad is the high-margin option that could materially change group economics if it secures framework-level work. The case doesn’t rely on all pipelines converting — it relies on one clear proof point. Either a multi-site AgTech deployment or a Tier-1 PFP framework would be enough to reset risk perception and funding assumptions. Until then, the current discount is justified. In a risk-off market, that works both ways. Weaker stories are being purged, while businesses with real revenues, government-validated IP, and structural demand drivers are being ignored. That creates asymmetry: defined downside, with the potential for a sharp re-rating if a single scale signal lands.
I think that signal is very close plus CEM could surprise on the defence contract side.