Edison Investment Research

M P Evans Group

Food & Drink

An group engaged in the operation of oil-palm and rubber plantations in Indonesia; beef-cattle operations in Australia and oil-palm plantations and property development in West Malaysia.

Madagascar Oil

Oil & Gas

Madagascar Oil holds the largest position in onshore exploration and development in Madagascar.

Management Consulting Group

Consumer Support Services

Management Consulting Group is an umbrella organisation for a diverse range of consulting and professional services offerings. It comprises two leading specialist practices: Kurt Salmon Associates and Alexander Proudfoot.

Manpower Software

Technology

Manpower's workforce optimisation software currently targets three industry verticals. The software suite is capable of delivering rapid payback via substantial efficiencies in labour utilisation.

Marti Otel Isletmeleri

Travel & Leisure

Marti Otel is a long-established owner and operator of resort hotels and a marina on Turkey's south-west coast. Its 48%-held subsidiary Marti REIT is developing a major residential park near Istanbul. The company has ambitious growth plans.

Martin Currie Global Portfolio Trust

Investment Companies

The company's objective is to achieve long-term capital growth in excess of the capital return of the FTSE World Index by investing in a diversified portfolio of international quoted investments.

Mattioli Woods

Financials

Mattioli Woods provides retirement wealth management services (self-administered pension schemes [SSAS] and self-invested personal pensions [SIPP]) targeted at senior executives, professionals, and owner-managers.

MCB Finance Group

Financials

MCB Finance Group is a leading online provider of short- and medium-term loans to customers in Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania using the Credit24 brand.

Medcom Tech

Pharmaceutical & Healthcare

Medcom Tech distributes a wide range of innovative orthopaedic products across Spain, Portugal and Italy. Its portfolio includes knee and hip implants, plates and screws to repair bone and spine fractures, and advanced types of bone cement.

MedicX Fund Limited

Property

MedicX Fund is a specialist investor in primary care infrastructure. It holds a portfolio of 58 properties (including six under construction and two due to get underway this year), let mainly to government funded (NHS) tenants and pharmacies.

Mediterranean Oil & Gas

Oil & Gas

MOG is an exploration and production (E&P) company with a significant portfolio of assets focused on the central Mediterranean.

Medusa Mining

Mining

Medusa Mining is an AIM- and ASX-listed mining company producing gold at the Co-O mine in the Philippines. Medusa Mining also has exploration and development prospects in the country.

Merchant Securities Group

Financials

Merchant Securities Group is a diversified financial services company providing investment management and advice, corporate finance and private equity solutions, and institutional sales and research on small-/mid-caps in niche sectors.

Micro Focus International

Technology

Micro Focus provides innovative software that allows companies to significantly improve the business value of their enterprise applications.

Millennium & Copthorne Hotels

Travel & Leisure

Millennium & Copthorne is a global hotel company, which owns and/or operates over 100 hotels.

MITIE

Consumer Support Services

MITIE specialises in strategic outsourcing and asset management, comprising Facilities Management, Property Management and Asset Management.

Molins

Engineering

Molins is a specialist engineering group supplying processing and packaging machinery, and scientific services to the global tobacco, pharmaceutical and FMCG industries.

Mondo TV

Media & Entertainment

Mondo TV is a leading Italian producer and distributor of animated TV series and feature-length cartoons. It also licenses and merchandises its rights through home video, music, multimedia productions and publishing.

Morgan Crucible

Electronics & Electrical Equipment

Morgan Crucible is an advanced materials technology company that provides highly engineered solutions to its chosen markets. It operates through two divisions: Morgan Ceramics (60% 2010 sales) and Morgan Engineered Materials (40%).

M&C Saatchi

Media & Entertainment

M&C Saatchi is a global marketing services business working for clients across a wide variety of industry sectors.

MagForce

Pharmaceutical & Healthcare

MagForce is a German med-tech firm with a CE-mark approved nanotechnology cancer treatment. This consists of NanoTherm (iron nanoparticles), Nanoplan (software) and NanoActivator (a device that produces a powerful magnetic field to heat the nanoparticles, which destroys or sensitises tumour cells to therapy).

Manganese Bronze

Engineering

Manganese Bronze designs, manufactures and distributes the London Taxi. Sales volumes are set to be transformed as a result of a joint venture with Geely Automobile to manufacture cabs in China.

Mariana Resources

Mining

Mariana Resources is an exploration junior focused on epithermal gold-silver and IOCG (iron oxide copper gold) deposits in Argentina and Chile.

Marti REIT

Property

Marti REIT (GYO) owns an investment and development portfolio of hotels in some of Turkey's most popular tourist destinations, and a residential development scheme in Çerkezköy, a suburb of Istanbul.

Matchtech Group

Consumer Support Services

Matchtech Group has grown into one of the UK's leading technical, professional and outsourcing recruitment groups. Split into four business units, each a solutions specialist in its area of recruitment in providing contract, temporary and permanent staff.

Maxima Holdings

Technology

Maxima is an IT business systems and managed services company.

MDM Engineering Group

Mining

MDM Engineering is a metallurgical engineering company established in February 2006. It undertakes mineral resources projects of varying size and concentrates on the gold, base metals, industrial metals and diamond sectors.

Medicsight

Technology

MediGene

Pharmaceutical & Healthcare

MediGene is a German biotech company with a focus on cancer and autoimmune diseases. It was floated in 2000, and has two marketed products: Eligard, for treating prostate cancer, and Veregen, for genital warts.

Medivir

Pharmaceutical & Healthcare

Medivir is a Swedish biotech company focused on infectious diseases (primarily hepatitis C). The investment case centres on its hep C protease inhibitor TMC435, in Phase III studies and partnered with Tibotec (J&J). Xereclear/Xerese, a topical for labial herpes, is set for launch by partners Meda and GSK in 2011.

Meggitt

Aerospace & Defence

Meggitt is a leading international company specialising in high performance components and sub-systems for aerospace, defence and energy markets.

Merrion Pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceutical & Healthcare

Merrion is an Irish company that uses technology acquired from Elan to reformulate injectable drugs into oral formulations. Its lead projects are Orazol, insulin and GLP-1 (in collaboration with Novo Nordisk).

Micromet

Pharmaceutical & Healthcare

Micromet is an American/German drug discovery company with a proprietary technology platform, which produces BiTE antibodies. It primarily develops antibodies to treat various cancers.

Minera IRL

Mining

Minera IRL is a gold producer and explorer with assets in Peru and Argentina. Its flagship project is the 2.6Moz Ollachea gold project in Peru, which is anticipated to produce at rate of c 120,000oz from late 2014.

Miton Worldwide Growth Investment Trust

Investment Companies

The investment objective of Miton Worldwide Growth Investment Trust (formerly iimia) is to achieve absolute returns, through exploiting inefficiencies in the pricing of closed-ended funds.

MolMed

Pharmaceutical & Healthcare

MolMed is an Italian biotech company focused on the development of biological agents for cancer. The company has two Phase III products: NGR-hTNF, a vascular targeting agent, and TK, a cell therapy used with partially-identical HSCT for high-risk leukaemia.

Monitise

Technology

Monitise provides a mass market technology platform that enables banks, card schemes and other financial providers to offer mobile banking and payment services.

MorphoSys

Pharmaceutical & Healthcare

MorphoSys is a German biotechnology company. It uses its proprietary technologies to develop human antibodies for therapeutic use across a range of indications. It also develops diagnostic antibodies and sells antibodies for use in research.