Small Cap Value Report (Mon 22 July 2024) - BKS, TSTL, FNX, ARC, ADVT, CSSG. Brief: GUS, BAR

Good morning, Paul amp; Graham here!

It's a clean sweep today, we covered everything, and mostly interesting companies too. So we'll sign off.

Let's hope the IT problem that caused so many problems globally on Friday has now been resolved, with prompt RNSs at 7am hopefully. Update: so far, so good!

Mello Monday starts 17:00 later today - details here. One of my favourite shares over the last couple of years, Cohort (LON:CHRT) is presenting.  Having done so well, do the shares have further upside? I believe Richard Crow is on the BASH panel, he's always worth listening to. Also Vin Murria of AdvancedAdvT (LON:ADVT) is on!

Begbies Traynor (LON:BEG) - it's the quarterly Red Flag Alert Report - which is particularly gloomy this time, even by Begbies standards! There's been a considerable increase in companies classified as being in "significant financial distress". Especially in travel amp; tourism, hotels, health amp; education, and bar/restaurants. "Serious concerns" remain in construction, real estate, and support services sectors.

Explanatory notes -

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