Paul Hill6 May 2025 19:08
What will he do now, he was tipping this just 6 weeks ago
it's crucial to have a disciplined & structured approach when stock picking. Which for me, involves assessing four key factors, namely: Company, Industry, Price vs Value and Management.
Here, B2B international payments and forex services firm Argentex Group PLC ticks all the boxes, especially the 4th where I have always rated CEO Jim Ormonde as top notch.
In fact today after posting better than anticipated FY'24 results, the Board has upgraded guidance, with house broker Singer Capital Markets hiking their adjusted FY25 EBITDA forecast from £1.7m to £4.5m on sales up 5% to £52.8m vs £50.3m LY. In terms of the balance sheet too, there was net cash of £18.4m as at Dec'24 - equivalent to a 'ball-park' headroom of £5m (my guess) that is freely available to Argentex Group PLC after deducting regulatory requirements.
Sure going forward, there'll still be a temporary drag on performance due to ongoing investments in overseas expansion, new products and the forex IT platform (AGP) which is slated to go live in the Summer.
Yet equally if you are a risk tolerant investor like myself with long-term time horizons, then I can see hashtag#AGFX more than doubling over the next 12-24 months.
My target price is 88p/share vs Singer Capital Markets at 70p.