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Shooting the lights out

Twitter is an incredibly useful service, albeit it definitely makes it much harder to invest, when whole industries can be rocked overnight by a simple tweet from the White House. However what President Trump has been 100% consistent on, is his ‘America First’ policy.

Indeed we believe this 'over-riding #1 priority’ should continue to support the US as the best performing G7 economy heading into the Nov’20 Presidential Elections, and remain the ‘destination of choice’ for many fund managers. Fortunately too for UK investors, there are US domestically-focused companies listed right here in London.

Take ClearStar, a tech-enabled background & medical screening (MIS) specialist, based in Atlanta (Georgia) that is both expanding rapidly & materially undervalued. Today the firm said that it had backed up June’s “highest ever monthly revenue [Est +29% organically]” with another blistering performance in July. Not only breaking the $1m/month barrier at its leading MIS division, but also delivering total revenues of $2.25m, up approx. 26%-30% LFL.

Growth is being driven by the group’s best-in-class mobile software, on-boarding of clients, contract wins and up/X-selling. Augmented by favourable macro tailwinds, such as the ongoing popularity of the gig economy, crackdowns on illegal workers & legalisation of cannabis for recreational use.

Consequently we are becoming increasingly confident that CLSU will hit (& perhaps even exceed) our conservative FY19 revenue forecast of $23.0m (14.4% LFL), and reiterate the 135p/share valuation. In fact if this momentum is maintained, then there should be scope for future upgrades in due course.
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