Edison Investment Research

Paion

Pharmaceutical & Healthcare

Paion is a biopharmaceutical company specialising in the development of CNS products. The company has five NCEs in its R&D portfolio, with the lead programme, desmoteplase, partnered with Lundbeck.

Panmure Gordon

Financials

Panmure Gordon provides corporate and institutional investment banking and stockbroking services in the UK (Panmure Gordon UK) and US (ThinkEquity), and has a representative office in Switzerland.

Park Group

Financials

Park Group is a financial services business. It is the UK's leading multi-redemption voucher business, focused on the corporate gift voucher and Christmas savings markets. Sales are generated through agents, a direct sales force and the internet.

PartyGaming

Travel & Leisure

PartyGaming is the world's leading listed online gaming business. It offers poker, casino games, sports betting, bingo, backgammon and other games on its Party branded platform and through alliances with blue chip companies such as ITV. It does not accept bets from US customers.

Pendragon

Automotive Retailers

Pendragon is the largest UK motor distributor, operating 276 franchises spread across a comprehensive range of volume and luxury cars. The group is also engaged in commercial vehicles, leasing, vehicle parts and dealership management software. It also operates a small dealership chain in California.

Petards Group

Industrial Support Services

Petards's core activity is the provision of specialist solutions involving security, surveillance and defence technologies.

Pharmacyclics

Pharmaceutical & Healthcare

Pharming Group

Pharmaceutical & Healthcare

Pharming, a Dutch company listed on Euronext, has focused on Ruconest/ Rhucin for angioedema, a rare hereditary disease. Ruconest is now EU approved and will be marketed by Sobi and Esteve. US kidney rejection trials have started.

Phylogica

Pharmaceutical & Healthcare

Phylogica is a drug discovery company with a proprietary technology platform based on naturally derived Phylomer peptides. Its business model centres on drug discovery collaborations with large pharma partners.

Pinewood Shepperton

Media & Entertainment

A group engaged in the provision of studio and related services to the film and television industries.

Platmin

Mining

Platmin Limited is a mineral exploration and development company with listings on both the TSX and AIM. Platmin’s exploration and development efforts are focused on platinum group metals (PGMs) in the Bushveld Complex of South Africa.

Porvair

Alternative Energy

Porvair designs and manufactures specialist filtration products. Its target markets are aviation, energy and industrial processes, environmental laboratories and non-ferrous metal processing.

Praesepe

Travel & Leisure

Praesepe is the largest UK high street gaming venue operator with 96 owned high street venues and a further 75 under management, four seaside arcades, six bingo clubs, and a small online operation.

Premier Oil

Oil & Gas

Premier Oil is an exploration and production company. Its principal interests are located in Vietnam, Indonesia, Pakistan and the UK, with additional exploration operations in Congo, Egypt and Norway.

Probability

Travel & Leisure

Probability is a leading, fully integrated, pure mobile phone gambling company, offering casino and bingo games to around 200,000 registered customers using proprietary software and its own e-wallet.

Provexis

Food & Drink

Provexis is a developer of technologies for the functional food, medical food and dietary supplement sectors, and is repositioning itself as a pure discovery, development and licensing business.

Psion

Electronics & Electrical Equipment

Psion designs and sells ruggedized mobile computers, which are used by field workers and in supply chain and logistics functions.

PureCircle

Food & Drink

PureCircle produces and markets Reb A, a high-purity, natural sweetener for the food and beverage industry with 200-400 times the sweetness of sugar. It is likely to be used to reduce the sugar content of food products especially drinks. Production is in China, South-East Asia and South America with PureCircle owning its own extraction and refining plants and supplying food manufacturers direct.

Pan African Resources

Mining

Pan African Resources is a South African mining company with gold mines and a platinum project in South Africa. The company produces 100koz of gold annually and expects to be producing PGMs by the end of 2011. It continues to explore for gold in Mozambique.

Paragon

Financials

The Paragon Group of Companies is a specialist buy-to-let mortgage lender, with a strong focus on professional landlords. In addition to buy-to-let lending, it provides consumer finance and specialist loan servicing for third party clients, including the management of portfolios and the provision of arrears management. It has also been an active acquirer of loan portfolios.

Park Plaza Hotels

Travel & Leisure

Park Plaza Hotels is an integrated owner and operator of four-star, deluxe and boutique hotels in gateway cities and regional centres predominantly in Europe.

Patsystems

Technology

Patsystems offers software solutions and the related infrastructure to support electronic trading in the derivatives market.

Perform Group

Media & Entertainment

Perform Group owns one of the largest portfolios of digital sports rights in the world. It monetises those rights through content distribution to business customers worldwide, advertising, sponsorship and subscription. It also provides technology and production services.

Petropavlovsk

Mining

Petropavlovsk's principal assets are in the Amur region of Russia, comprising the Pokrovskiy mine and associated operations, Pioneer and Malomir. The company was founded in 1994 and listed on AIM in 2002.

Pharmaxis

Pharmaceutical & Healthcare

Pharmaxis is an Australian speciality pharmaceutical company focused on the R&D and commercialisation of drugs for respiratory diseases. Pharmaxis’s key product is Bronchitol. It has one currently marketed product (Aridol: asthma/COPD assessment) and two core R&D assets.

Photocure

Pharmaceutical & Healthcare

Photocure specialises in photodynamic therapy. It has an approved imaging product, Hexvix, sold by GE outside the Nordic area. Allumera, a cosmetic skin treatment for acne, will be launched in the US in 2011. Cevira, an innovative therapeutic/device combination, is in Phase II for cervical pre-cancer. Visonac is in Phase II for acne treatment.

Phytopharm

Pharmaceutical & Healthcare

Phytopharm is a UK biotech company principally focused on the development of drugs for neurodegenerative disease.

Plastics Capital

Engineering

Plastics Capital is a plastics products manufacturing business, focused on proprietary products for niche markets.

Polar Capital Global Healthcare Growth and Income Trust

Investment Companies

PCGH’s investment objective is to generate dividend income and capital growth by investing in a global portfolio of healthcare stocks. The company’s performance is evaluated with reference to the MSCI All Countries World Index/Health Care Index in sterling adjusted total return terms.

Powerflute

Basic Industries

Powerflute is a holding company established to acquire and improve underperforming businesses and assets in the broadly defined international paper and packaging sector. It operates a niche packaging papers producer based in Finland.

Premier Farnell

Industrial Support Services

Premier Farnell is a distributor of mechanical, electrical and electronic components to customers in industry. Originally formed from the merger of Farnell in the UK and Premier in the US, it now operates in 32 countries.

Primary Health Properties

Property

PHP invests in primary healthcare property, which is let to GPs, PCTs and other NHS entities backed by the UK government. This tenant profile provides an exceptionally secure rental outlook.

ProMetic Life Sciences

Pharmaceutical & Healthcare

ProMetic Life Sciences is an international biopharmaceutical business, comprised of a group of companies focused on developing ligand-based technologies and therapeutics.

Proximagen Group

Pharmaceutical & Healthcare

Proximagen is a UK biotech company specialising in the development of treatments for CNS diseases. It has an acquisitive strategy, seeking to expand its pipeline through acquisition and in-licensing.

Public Service Properties Investments

Property

Public Service Properties Investments is a specialist real estate investment and financing company. Its main focus until recently has been on the expansion of its UK portfolio of care homes, which make up the majority of the value of its portfolio.

Pursuit Dynamics

Engineering

Pursuit Dynamics is a technology company that exploits IP based around the dynamics of fluid flows when under pressure. It has identified several industries where it can use this technology to improve process efficiency.