Stunning results | Cash flow quirk | AI opportunity

The results are coming thick and fast and there are some crackers covered here, dispelling the gloom in the UK small cap sector. The pick of the bunch (quite literally!) are fabulous interim results from an elderly producer of sustainable palm oil, which brought a big increase in its dividend, continuing its more than thirty-year, track record of maintaining or increasing these. We also cover excellent results from two very different software groups and reassuring updates from several other companies which lifted their shares. Elsewhere, results from a highly acquisitive legal services group were less impressive, at least in terms of cash flow. Read on here for our usual forthright views on this and other news.