Adapt-ing to accounting standard issues
Adapt IT is a JSE small cap operating in the IT industry. The company is worth around R390m which is unremarkable. The remarkable news is that it was worth only R160m at the end of September. This is the thing with smaller companies on the JSE: they trade sideways for extended periods and experience significant jumps or drops based on …
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Adapt-ing to accounting standard issues
Adapt IT is a JSE small cap operating in the IT industry. The company is worth around R390m which is unremarkable. The remarkable news is that it was worth only R160m at the end of September. This is the thing with smaller companies on the JSE: they trade sideways for extended periods and experience significant jumps or drops based on …
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Not all tech companies are created equal
You know by now that the lockdown period was great for many tech companies. Although “tech” is used as an umbrella term all the time, it’s something of a misnomer to do so. The companies that did well typically offer consumer apps or enterprise cloud solutions. Some software companies also did well and there were of course outliers like video …
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Not all tech companies are created equal
You know by now that the lockdown period was great for many tech companies. Although “tech” is used as an umbrella term all the time, it’s something of a misnomer to do so. The companies that did well typically offer consumer apps or enterprise cloud solutions. Some software companies also did well and there were of course outliers like video …
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Capital Appreciation Group – right place, right time
The JSE was a hot place to raise capital back in 2014 – 2016. Red hot. At the height of this capital raising frenzy, the JSE allowed a new type of company to be listed: a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC). Enter the SPAC Normally, a company listing on the JSE must have a decent track record and meet stringent …
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