Canaccord Genuity: Which are the most risky UK stocks?

Using Canaccord’s ‘Blob score’

Mike Sheen
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Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management has identified the UK stockmarket's most risky stocks with Man Group, oil and gas firms and Rolls Royce all featured in the list.

The firm used its proprietary equities tool Quest to calculate quantified risk levels of potential investments by marking each company out of ten, depending on the number of ‘red tags' identified.  Why it is too early to worry about a bear market for stocks Dependent on the number of red tags a stock has, Quest creates a 'Blob score' indicating its relative riskiness.   Some of the factors that will earn a share a red tag are: • How often one-off exceptional charges appear in its income statement. • Low or declining take charges - the company's take rate might be used to art...

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