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Simon Thompson's Bargain Shares 2025

Our small-cap stockpicking expert selects eight companies with the potential to deliver material returns over the next 12 months

This downtrodden food firm is bottoming out

Bargain Shares 2025: Cash-rich investment company is trading on a 71 per cent discount to NAV

Self-help measures will boost this soon-to-be Aim stock

Bargain Shares 2025: Higher profits with lower costs, stock levels and debt will end share price weakness

Bank hefty cash returns with this small-cap gem

Bargain Shares 2025: This top-performing trust trades at a huge discount and is in line for a re-rating

Splitting this company in two should force a huge re-rating

Bargain Shares 2025: Creating two Aim-traded stocks will allow both to be fully valued and double the market cap

An investment company with hidden value and huge potential

Bargain Shares 2025: Break-up value is materially higher than the current valuation with a cash exit on the cards

A three-point plan should send these shares soaring

Bargain Shares 2025: Disposals, a tender offer and growth have the potential to turn things around for investors

This stock has more cash than its market cap

Bargain Shares 2025: Investors could receive a chunky cash return with a free hit on the rest of the business

Legal distractions mean these shares are too depressed

Bargain Shares 2025: The financial services group is trading on a 75 per cent

There's more to come from this 9.1%-yielding stock

Simon Thompson: Free cash flow supports an attractive dividend yield and the transition towards a self-funding business model