5th Sep 2025 10:27
(Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers on AIM on Friday.
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AIM - WINNERS
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Peel Hunt Ltd, up 10% at 112.00 pence, 12-month range 70.00p-135.00p. The London-based investment bank and stock broker says it has made a "strong start" to the current financial year, which runs to the end of March. The firm says it has acted on "a number of substantial [mergers & acquisitions] transactions" in its Investment Banking division. The corporate franchise now includes 58 FTSE 350 clients, Peel Hunt notes, made up of 5 FTSE 100 companies and 53 FTSE 250 companies. Peel Hunt says it has seen nascent equity capital markets activity in recent weeks, where it has supported clients on equity raises and block trades. It says revenue in the Execution Services business is "encouraging and materially ahead" of the prior year. As a result, it expects to deliver full-year results ahead of expectations. It will release an update on revenue for the first six months of the year on October 1.
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Gear4music Holdings PLC, up 10% at 292.00p, 12-month range 97.80p-299.85. The York, England-based online retailer of musical instruments and equipment says revenue for the first quarter that ended June 30 was 27% higher than the year before with traction continuing in the second quarter to date. As a result, Gear4music has "sufficient confidence to once again increase its expectations for the group's financial performance" for the year ended March 31, 2026. The firm does not on Friday provide its upgraded guidance figures, but notes a current company-compiled consensus for financial 2026 put revenue at GBP155.8 million, pretax profit at GBP3.0 million, and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation at GBP11.3 million. This compares to GBP146.7 million in revenue, GBP1.6 million in pretax profit, and GBP10.0 million in Ebitda in financial 2025.
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AIM - LOSERS
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Geo Exploration Ltd, down 15% at 0.42p, 12-month range 0.10p-0.52p. The Australia-based oil and gas exploration company focused on Africa and the Mediterranean on Tuesday began a maiden drilling programme at its Juno project in Western Australia with the first hole JUD001. This marked a "significant operational milestone" for the firm. Shares responded with an 18% rise over the past 5 days, spiking at 0.51p on Thursday. Drilling at JUD001 is for depths of up to 1,000 metres, targeting a large intrusion-related gold system defined by integrated geophysical modelling and geophysics. The programme is being carried out alongside diamond drilling contractor DDH1 Drilling Pty Ltd. "We believe the Juno project could represent a mineralised system potentially four to five times the scale of Havieron," says Geo Exploration's Chief Executive Officer Omar Ahmad. "We are chasing a very large system which could be a generational discovery if successful."
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By Emily Parsons, Alliance News reporter
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