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B&M European Value Retail / Equity Bottom-Up

Key points (machine generated)<ul><li>B&amp;M is a leading UK discount retailer offering a wide range of branded and private-label products for budget-conscious consumers.</li><li>The company operates similarly to Dollar General, focusing on value and convenience with a mix of general merchandise and fast-moving consumer goods.</li><li>Founded in 1978, B&amp;M has grown significantly and is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker BME.</li></ul>This article is sourced from an online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. This article was originally published 3 months ago on Value Investors Club.

Key points (machine generated)B&amp;M is a leading UK discount retailer offering a wide range of branded and private-label products for budget-conscious consumers.The company operates similarly to Dollar General, focusing on value and convenience with a mix of general merchandise and fast-moving consumer goods.Founded in 1978, B&amp;M has grown significantly and is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker BME.This article is sourced from an online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. This article was originally published 3 months ago on Value Investors Club.

B&M European Value Retail (BME) - Thursday, Aug 7, 2025

Asset Allocation & Fund Positioning, Copley Fund Research

Steven Holden

Asset Allocation & Fund Positioning

Copley Fund Research

Copley Fund Research provide research and data on asset allocation among Global and Emerging Market equity funds.  The analysis details absolute and relative positioning across countries, sectors and industries together with highly granular data on single stock and single fund allocations.  The data is updated monthly with time series going back to January 2011.

Global Research - Analysis of 165 prominent Global equity funds, combined AUM $335bn
GEM Research - Analysis of 127 prominent global EM equity funds, combined AUM $250bn

Asset Allocation - Global and GEM Equity

Cross Asset Strategy

<ul>
<li>Consumer Discretionary is the strongest consensus overweight among UK active funds, with 85% positioned above the FTSE All Share Index.</li>
<li>The sector’s relative overweight has climbed steadily to decade highs, with 85% of funds positioned above benchmark.</li>
<li>Stock-Level tilts show consistent preference for Burberry, Whitbread, and Next, alongside reductions in Taylor Wimpey, Dowlais, and Frasers Group.</li>
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Consumer Discretionary is the strongest consensus overweight among UK active funds, with 85% positioned above the FTSE All Share Index.
The sector’s relative overweight has climbed steadily to decade highs, with 85% of funds positioned above benchmark.
Stock-Level tilts show consistent preference for Burberry, Whitbread, and Next, alongside reductions in Taylor Wimpey, Dowlais, and Frasers Group.


UK Consumer Discretionary Positioning: A Consensus Overweight

US-EU Index Rebalances / Quantitative Researcher, ORTEX

Dimitris Ioannidis

US-EU Index Rebalances / Quantitative Researcher

Global Financial Data and Analytics Platform

ORTEX

ORTEX is a global financial data and analytics platform providing real-time securities lending and short interest data, index rebalance data, holdings and insider transactions, trading signals, corporate actions and news,  stock machine learning and factor scores and other analytics. The majority of the data are downloadable and accessible through APIs.

Event-Driven

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/deliveroo-plc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27468:1" rel="noopener">Deliveroo (ROO LN)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/oxford-nanopore-technologies-plc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:34444:1" rel="noopener">Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT LN)</a> are newly eligible securities forecasted to be added to F250 due to the recent change of the FCA listing category framework.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ferrexpo-plc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:24163:1" rel="noopener">Ferrexpo Plc (FXPO LN)</a> is the new forecasted addition-migration to F250 following its ~25% price jump over the last two days which made it surpass the entry threshold.</li>
<li>Applied Nutrition Plc (APN LN) is a newly eligible, forecasted to be added to small-cap following its IPO listing on 24 October 2024.</li>
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Deliveroo (ROO LN) and Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT LN) are newly eligible securities forecasted to be added to F250 due to the recent change of the FCA listing category framework.

Ferrexpo Plc (FXPO LN) is the new forecasted addition-migration to F250 following its ~25% price jump over the last two days which made it surpass the entry threshold.
Applied Nutrition Plc (APN LN) is a newly eligible, forecasted to be added to small-cap following its IPO listing on 24 October 2024.


FOOTSIE UK December 2024 Forecast (Final): ALW and STJ for Top 100; ROO and ONT for Next 250

<ul>
<li>UK Industrials maintain top Sector weight. Real Estate and Consumer Discretionary underweights fund Technology overweight.</li>
<li>Investment Managers Industry group hits record exposure. REITs largely unloved by UK Small/Midcap funds.</li>
<li>Future plc remains the most widely held company. XPS Pensions and Foresight Group Holdings are the top overweights. B&amp;M, Weir Group and Rightmove lead the underweights.</li>
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UK Industrials maintain top Sector weight. Real Estate and Consumer Discretionary underweights fund Technology overweight.
Investment Managers Industry group hits record exposure. REITs largely unloved by UK Small/Midcap funds.
Future plc remains the most widely held company. XPS Pensions and Foresight Group Holdings are the top overweights. B&amp;M, Weir Group and Rightmove lead the underweights.


Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

MSCI Emerging Markets Index / Technical Analysis

We continue to believe the path of least resistance is higher for global equities. As a result, our outlook remains bullish and we suggest buying any dips. This week we are focusing on Consumer Staples and Health Care, two Sectors that have been less-loved over the past several months. We also highlight additional ideas in the following Sectors: Services, Technology, Financials, Real Estate, Communications, and Utilities.

We continue to believe the path of least resistance is higher for global equities. As a result, our outlook remains bullish and we suggest buying any dips. This week we are focusing on Consumer Staples and Health Care, two Sectors that have been less-loved over the past several months. We also highlight additional ideas in the following Sectors: Services, Technology, Financials, Real Estate, Communications, and Utilities.

EM Equities At New Highs Despite Some Caution Signs

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B&M European Value Retail S.A. operates as a general merchandise discount retailer. The Company sells products ranging electronics to home goods.

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B&M European Value Retail (BME) - Thursday, Aug 7, 2025

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Value Investors Club (VIC)

UK Consumer Discretionary Positioning: A Consensus Overweight

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UK Small/Midcap Fund Positioning Update

How are UK Small and Midcap equity funds positioned? We analyse the holdings of 106 actively managed UK strategies to find out.

Steven Holden

EM Equities At New Highs Despite Some Caution Signs

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Vermilion Research

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B&M European Value Retail (BME) - Thursday, Aug 7, 2025

B&M is a leading UK discount retailer offering a wide range of branded and private-label products, catering to budget-conscious consumers with a...

Value Investors Club (VIC)

UK Consumer Discretionary Positioning: A Consensus Overweight

Consumer Discretionary is the UK’s standout active overweight. Absolute allocations are stable, but the sector’s relative overweight has surged to...

Steven Holden

FOOTSIE UK December 2024 Forecast (Final): ALW and STJ for Top 100; ROO and ONT for Next 250

​Deliveroo and Oxford Nanopore set to join footsie 250 due to a change in the FCA listing category under the new framework. Ferrexpo Plc is a new...

Dimitris Ioannidis

UK Small/Midcap Fund Positioning Update

How are UK Small and Midcap equity funds positioned? We analyse the holdings of 106 actively managed UK strategies to find out.

Steven Holden

EM Equities At New Highs Despite Some Caution Signs

We continue to believe the path of least resistance is higher for global equities. As a result, our outlook remains bullish and we suggest buying...

Vermilion Research

Deliveroo and Oxford Nanopore set to join footsie 250 due to a change in the FCA listing category under the new framework. Ferrexpo Plc is a new...