The week’s best shares

AFH Financial Group

Investors Chronicle

Shares in the wealth manager have rebounded as it milks the under-supplied market for independent financial advice. Funds under management are up 40%, and there’s a pipeline of potential acquisition targets. Buy. 385p.

Gamma Communications

The Times

Gamma uses the cloud to provide internet-based phone and broadband services to businesses. A “quiet phenomenon”, with profits up 40% and stellar growth figures. “Lots of overseas potential.” Buy. £13.80.

Learning Technologies Group

Investors Chronicle

The digital learning group’s figures are “comfortably ahead” of expectations, with revenues up 38%, profits by 58%. With an “active” pipeline of international acquisition opportunities. Buy. 158p.

Royal Dutch Shell

The Sunday Times

Shares have been punished by the “pushback against fossil fuels”, a “sagging” gas price and a well-supplied oil market. Still, there’s high potential for returns through buybacks and dividends – “if you dare”. Buy. £22.00.

Safestore

The Times

In a “hot sector” with plenty of growth potential, Safestore operates 150 warehouses in London and the southeast, Paris and Barcelona. Not cheap, but a cautious approach adds to its “safe” appeal, and the storage market is a long way off “peak”. Buy. 768p.

Sage Group

The Share Centre

Sage software helps firms with their management, accounting and payroll services. The drive to increase revenues from subscriptions and cloud services is “beginning to bear fruit”. Buy. 751.4p.