Your Partner for Growth, Hybridan

Hybridan

Your Partner for Growth

Our passion is raising growth capital for exciting, fast growth companies that want to take their business to the next level. We raise capital for companies both listed and unlisted in the most efficient manner possible and pride ourselves as being one of the few consistently profitable broking firms in the City. This has been achieved through a highly disciplined approach when seeking to create both corporate and institutional relationships.

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<ul><li>Our daily digest of news from UK Small Caps @HybridanLLP 19th February 2025 * A corporate client of Hybridan LLP ** Potential means Intention to Float (ITF) has been announced, or it is a rumour ***Arranged by type of listing and date of announcement ****Alphabetically arranged Share prices and market capitalisations taken from the current price on the day of publication Dish of the day Admissions: Delistings: Intelligent Ultrasound Group (IUG.L) delisted from AIM.</li><li> What’s baking in the oven?</li><li> Potential** Initial Public Offerings: 6 February: GlobalData (DATA.L) has announced an intention to move to the Main Market from AIM.</li></ul>

Our daily digest of news from UK Small Caps @HybridanLLP 19th February 2025 * A corporate client of Hybridan LLP ** Potential means Intention to Float (ITF) has been announced, or it is a rumour ***Arranged by type of listing and date of announcement ****Alphabetically arranged Share prices and market capitalisations taken from the current price on the day of publication Dish of the day Admissions: Delistings: Intelligent Ultrasound Group (IUG.L) delisted from AIM. What’s baking in the oven? Potential** Initial Public Offerings: 6 February: GlobalData (DATA.L) has announced an intention to move to the Main Market from AIM.

Tracsis Plc - Hybridan Small Cap Feast: 19/02/2025

Research from Hardman & Co, Hardman & Co

Hardman & Co

Research from Hardman & Co

Investment research on quoted companies and funds

Hardman & Co is a multi-disciplinary financial consultancy and investment research firm, employing highly experienced analysts and professionals with a broad range of capital markets expertise. Our clients are public and private businesses as well as fund managers, ranging from start-ups to £1 billion+ market capitalisations. Hardman & Co offers corporate research & consultancy, serving the needs of both public and private companies. We produce gold-standard research with a global reach for trading and investment companies, as well as providing market commentary and analysis. In addition, we carry out a number of bespoke investment-related assignments, including due diligence on bond listings, assessments of private company valuations and other corporate advisory services. We engage with the market through traditional and digital media, offering illuminating video content on corporate management strategy, results communication, interviews and in-house sector discussion.

<ul><li>In our April 2024 initiation, we highlighted that DUKE, by optimising the best of equity and debt, aimed to achieve equity-type returns with debt levels of risk.</li><li>We highlighted four pillars of returns, namely: i) term credit; ii) participating preference shares, which support DUKE’s high, covered and growing dividend yield (2025E 10.0%, 2026E 10.7%, 2027E 11.4%); iii) early exit fees; and iv) equity stakes.</li><li>Here, we update investors on how management will take DUKE to the next level, noting i) a £20.2m+ equity issue to fund short-term growth, and ii) the progress made towards a third-party capital model, negating the need for further raises.</li></ul>

In our April 2024 initiation, we highlighted that DUKE, by optimising the best of equity and debt, aimed to achieve equity-type returns with debt levels of risk.We highlighted four pillars of returns, namely: i) term credit; ii) participating preference shares, which support DUKE’s high, covered and growing dividend yield (2025E 10.0%, 2026E 10.7%, 2027E 11.4%); iii) early exit fees; and iv) equity stakes.Here, we update investors on how management will take DUKE to the next level, noting i) a £20.2m+ equity issue to fund short-term growth, and ii) the progress made towards a third-party capital model, negating the need for further raises.

Duke Capital (DUKE): Taking Duke Capital to the next level

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<li>Feature article: “ROOM” (Running Out of Money) risk, How managing liquidity risk can sustain corporate value and maintain shareholder confidence</li>
<li>As we come close to the end of a very challenging year for many UK entrepreneurs, as well as a frustrating period for shareholders, it is time to address one elephant in the ROOM! ROOM stands for “Running Out of Money”.</li>
<li>The risk of doing so, or the perception that it could occur, can destroy corporate values and prematurely paralyse a business. </li>
</ul>


Feature article: “ROOM” (Running Out of Money) risk, How managing liquidity risk can sustain corporate value and maintain shareholder confidence
As we come close to the end of a very challenging year for many UK entrepreneurs, as well as a frustrating period for shareholders, it is time to address one elephant in the ROOM! ROOM stands for “Running Out of Money”.
The risk of doing so, or the perception that it could occur, can destroy corporate values and prematurely paralyse a business. 


<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: var(--content-font-size);">Budgets are always important for investors.</span></li>
<li>The imminent Budget, at the end of October, will be doubly so, because it is the first from the new Labour government, and it has already signalled the need to fill an alleged £22bn black hole, while ruling out changes to more than half the tax base.</li>
<li>That implies a lot of the pain will be felt by investors.</li>
</ul>


Budgets are always important for investors.
The imminent Budget, at the end of October, will be doubly so, because it is the first from the new Labour government, and it has already signalled the need to fill an alleged £22bn black hole, while ruling out changes to more than half the tax base.
That implies a lot of the pain will be felt by investors.


<ul>
<li>In our April 2024 initiation, we highlighted that DUKE, by optimising the best of equity and debt, aimed to achieve equity-type returns with debt levels of risk.</li>
<li>We highlighted four pillars of returns, namely: i) term credit; ii) participating preference share elements, which support DUKE shareholders’ high (2025E: 9.0%), growing (2027E: 14% above FY’24), and 1.7x covered dividend; iii) early exit fees; and iv) equity stakes.</li>
<li>The 2024 results saw three of the four show positive returns; consequently, DUKE delivered record recurring cash revenue (+12% to £24.3m) and total cash revenue (+38% to £30.2m), with £18m free cashflow.</li>
</ul>


In our April 2024 initiation, we highlighted that DUKE, by optimising the best of equity and debt, aimed to achieve equity-type returns with debt levels of risk.
We highlighted four pillars of returns, namely: i) term credit; ii) participating preference share elements, which support DUKE shareholders’ high (2025E: 9.0%), growing (2027E: 14% above FY’24), and 1.7x covered dividend; iii) early exit fees; and iv) equity stakes.
The 2024 results saw three of the four show positive returns; consequently, DUKE delivered record recurring cash revenue (+12% to £24.3m) and total cash revenue (+38% to £30.2m), with £18m free cashflow.


Hardman & Co Research: Duke Capital (DUKE) - FY’24 results: record cashflows

United Kingdom

Duke Capital Ltd is a private credit investment company. The Company provides hybrid capital solutions for management buy-outs, buy and build strategies, shareholder restructuring, and debt re-financing. Duke Capital serves customers worldwide.

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Tracsis Plc - Hybridan Small Cap Feast: 19/02/2025

Our daily digest of news from UK Small Caps @HybridanLLP 19th February 2025 * A corporate client of...

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Duke Capital (DUKE): Taking Duke Capital to the next level

In our April 2024 initiation, we highlighted that DUKE, by optimising the best of equity and debt, aimed to achieve equity-type returns with debt...

Hardman & Co

The Hardman & Co Monthly: November 2024

Feature article: “ROOM” (Running Out of Money) risk, How managing liquidity risk can sustain corporate value and maintain shareholder confidence

Hardman & Co

Hardman & Co Monthly: October 2024

This paper considers the impact of increases in rates for those taxes that affect investors, and the withdrawal of tax concessions and reliefs.

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Hardman & Co Research: Duke Capital (DUKE) - FY’24 results: record cashflows

In our April 2024 initiation, we highlighted that DUKE, by optimising the best of equity and debt, aimed to achieve equity-type returns with debt...

Hardman & Co

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