What Our Subscribers Say About Company REFS

Since 1993, Company REFS has been used by tens of thousands of professional and private investors to identify shares really worth buying, build equity portfolios – and manage them for profit.

Here, in their own words, is what REFS has done for them:

"We use REFS all the time - it's a quick, easy reference guide. If I ever found myself with some free time I could easily spend a morning looking through REFS for stocks."

Giles Hargreave, Chief Executive,
Hargreave Hale

"It’s such a crowded world of information out there. A tool like REFS that enables you to focus your time is really valuable. It gives us the capacity, in a very focussed way, to cut and slice the entire AIM universe within minutes."

André Winter, Investment Director,
Rensburg Sheppards Investment Management

"REFS is supreme to quickly grasp the essence of company fundamentals, expectations surrounding a share and its trend. It assists any investment style."

Edmond Jackson, freelance journalist and private investor

"For London-listed stocks there's really no alternative to REFS for quickly checking the spread of forecasts. I use it every day"

Conor McCarthy, Editor & Managing Director,
Techinvest

"I don’t buy stocks unless I’ve double-checked with REFS first, especially whether broker forecasts have moved up or down recently. I find REFS particularly useful for specific strategies, such as setting up a high income portfolio, or tracking new highs."

Alan Price, private investor

"As discretionary fund managers we find REFS extremely useful. The advantage of having a cost effective and speedy information digest is a compelling proposition. We use the basic data in REFS to build a house quantitative model for buy/sell recommendations, and this has proved to be a very effective, market-beating tool."

Tony Pattison, Fund Manager & Managing Director,
Fieldings Investment Management

"Company REFS is a vital, comprehensive source of company information useful for everyone interested in the stock market. I wouldn’t be without it - in good times or bad REFS is one of the best tools for making sound investment decisions. "

Kevin Goldstein-Jackson, FT columnist,
private investor and author

"A proven masterpiece that gives private investors every opportunity of outperforming the professionals. Over the years, REFS is the main reason that I have beaten the market."

"Private investors who seriously want to make profits cannot afford to be without REFS. I consult it every day. The company information is presented in an easy-to-assimilate way and the analysis tables provide background assistance to make well-informed and hopefully profitable decisions."

Terry Bond, Director
ProShare Investment Clubs

"REFS stands out for the reliability and comparability of its data provision. It clearly understands what investors need and produces it in a legible and accessible format – an essential ‘bible’ for investment professionals and everybody with an interest in corporate UK."

Julian Lakin, Head of Research
Mirabaud Securities

"The only problem I have is trying to stop my colleagues here from borrowing and not returning it! It is much admired by the UK investment team, who like its format and accuracy of information."

Jamie Hambro
J O Hambro Capital Management Group Limited

"Makes effective investing a practical proposition even when time is limited."

Alan Cowlishaw, private investor,
Hertfordshire

"I have found Company REFS invaluable when trying to identify small cap growth companies with solid fundamentals that I can include in my SIPP."

Hugo Jenkins, private investor,
Kent

"Having subscribed to REFS for about ten years I can confirm that it is my most valuable investing tool and more than pays for itself."

Harry Evans, private investor,
Dorset

"For the serious investor with limited time, REFS is by far the best way to cut through the welter of media information, company accounts and random noise to arrive at reasoned investment decisions."

D. Woollacott, private investor,
Surrey

"This is an invaluable publication. There is no easier way to access the basics on any company than Company REFS. It is also astonishingly accurate."

Roger Hardman, Hardman & Co

"Making a significant investment without the information found on a REFS page or table would be a little irresponsible."

Geoff Hilton, private investor,
Berkshire

"REFS allows you to systemise your stock picking to produce a shortlist of companies from which to make selections."

David Malkin, private investor, Carlisle

"The greatest asset of REFS is not just that one can select analysis criteria for a specific search, but that one can use it to confirm or reject selections made by more intuitive methods."

Anthony Brookes, private investor,
Surrey

"The great thing about REFS is that it cuts out all the Investor Relations and management rubbish by showing the figures."

Ted Bowden, Williams Debroe Plc

"REFS is an invaluable tool for the stock picker; its comprehensive coverage of a company’s financial situation enables me to make a hard objective assessment of future progress. The volume devoted to coverage of AIM companies is a valuable asset."

Aled Jones, private investor,
Manchester

"REFS is excellent. It is also an invaluable part of my daily research needs."

Robert Cole, Deputy Business Editor
The Times

"Extremely useful. Company REFS is the first place I look for fundamental company information."

Simon Watkins, Deputy Editor
Financial Mail on Sunday

“A superb investment tool.”

Terry Smith,
Collins Stewart

Why not discover for yourself what Company REFS can do for you, with our
no-obligation, 10-day free trial.