Posts tagged: Canaccord Genuity
Tuesday, 21 November 2023, 4:10 pm
The bears are really out in force today.
Now, Cannacord Guity's crack Quest unit, led by the well respected James Congdon, have released their latest short idea - Intertek, the FTSE 100-listed inspection and testing giant.
Scribblers at Quest argue: "We believe Intertek’s valuation does not reflect the fall in Cash Flow Returns on Assets"...
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Thursday, 26 October 2023, 10:43 am
Advising clients to sell shares is back in vogue among the more traditional stockbrokers.
A decade ago or so the blue chip brokers used to write all sorts of negative equity research about London-listed companies but then the thought police took control...
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Monday, 4 September 2023, 3:36 pm
Scribblers over at Canaccord Genuity's Quest unit have been quick to leap onto today's news about Permira's £703 million takeover of Ergomed to declare a potential "trend" in takeovers of UK-listed cheap AIM (Alternative Investment Market) stocks. ..
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Friday, 21 July 2023, 9:12 am
You can rely on Cannacord Genuity's Quest to be bullish about the prospect of more takeover deals this year.
Well, at the very least scribblers at Quest are attempting to put an optimistic spin on this year's lacklustre dealmaking environment in Britain...
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Wednesday, 11 January 2023, 2:14 pm
It's that time of the year when scribblers at Canaccord Genuity's Quest release a note with their UK M&A takeover tips - all 94 of them.
Graham Simpson who compiled this list of of potential takeover targets, writes: "UK companies continue to look materially undervalued, potentially making them takeover targets for both private equity and international corporates."..
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Thursday, 1 September 2022, 11:04 am
Scribblers at Quest were this morning talking up the prospect of corporate dealmaking in the next quarter despite the bearish sentiment pervading markets.
Following last week's flurry of technology deals (i.e. Open Text's bid for Micro Focus International and Schneider Electric's possible offer for Aveva) analysts at Quest, the cashflow analysis division of Canaccord Genuity, reckon there could be a few more corporate deals in the United Kingdom on the horizon...
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Thursday, 15 July 2021, 4:38 pm
It took a while but scribblers at some of the City of London's top brokers have finally figured out there is a merger & acquisition boom taking place in Britain.
So now every stock market broker is punting a list of takeover tips, with the chaps and chapettes at Canaccord Genuity the latest bunch to draw up a list of bid targets...
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Saturday, 2 January 2021, 7:09 pm
Scribblers at Quest are tipping ITV and housebuilder Crest Nicholson as takeover targets for private equity as part of a 'gold rush' period for buy-out firms looking to pick up oversold bargains from the London market.
Yes, you read that right - ITV. Below is a link to The Times piece highlighting Quest's research...
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Tuesday, 11 August 2020, 10:52 am
Ping! An email arrives from the cash flow experts at Quest, a division of broker Canaccord Genuity.
Graham Simpson, an analyst at Quest, believes London-based bankers are trying to stay employed by running around pitching leveraged buy-out ideas to a variety of private equity houses, sovereign wealth funds and dealmakers. No surprises there, I guess...
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Wednesday, 8 April 2020, 7:31 pm
Betaville spends a lot of time talking to top City of London dealmakers even when they are working from home. Most of them say that everything that was being looked at by potential acquirers prior to early March is either off or on hold. Some M&A bankers are looking at moving into restructuring...
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