{"id":354173,"date":"2026-07-08T00:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T00:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/investing\/maynard-paton-sharescope-screening-for-my-next-contrarian-winner-me-group\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T00:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T00:49:06","slug":"maynard-paton-sharescope-screening-for-my-next-contrarian-winner-me-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=354173","title":{"rendered":"Maynard Paton | [ShareScope] Screening For My Next Contrarian Winner: ME GROUP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#eaf3fe\"><strong>***ShareScope New Subscriber Special Offer***<\/strong> <br \/>Readers of my blog can enjoy a <strong>20%<\/strong> first-year discount! <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-global-color-10-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maynardpaton.com\/sharescope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here for details &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">20 June 2026<br \/><strong>By Maynard Paton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shares trading close to their 52-week lows can often provide lucrative buying opportunities for contrarian investors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In particular, promising companies that appear temporarily out of favour can generate very worthwhile returns as and when profits recover and the market re-rates the share price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other day ShareScope revealed some 458 names trading within 10% of their 52-week lows, with further filtering to find only \u2018promising companies\u2019 narrowing the list down to 13:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-0b451712\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maynardpaton.com\/sharescope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1175\" height=\"726\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-0b451712\" src=\"https:\/\/maynardpaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MEGP-sharescope-filter-results3.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maynardpaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MEGP-sharescope-filter-results3.png 1175w, https:\/\/maynardpaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MEGP-sharescope-filter-results3-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/maynardpaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MEGP-sharescope-filter-results3-1024x633.png 1024w, https:\/\/maynardpaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MEGP-sharescope-filter-results3-768x475.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1175px) 100vw, 1175px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-4b7751a4 gb-headline-text\"><em><sub>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/maynardpaton.com\/sharescope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ShareScope<\/a>)<\/sub><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exact screening criteria I redeployed were:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A share price within 10% of its 52-week low;<\/li>\n<li>Director ownership of at least 5%;<\/li>\n<li>An operating margin of 15% or more;<\/li>\n<li>Net borrowings less total leases of no more than 0 (i.e. a net cash position excluding IFRS 16 lease obligations), and;<\/li>\n<li>A minimum market cap of \u00a325m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I selected\u00a0<strong>ME Group<\/strong>\u00a0because this company has for years popped up on my various ShareScope filters and coverage had become very overdue. A recent profit warning meanwhile established a new 52-week low at 100p:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s take a closer look.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gb-button gb-button-aae8c03a gb-button-text\" href=\"https:\/\/knowledge.sharescope.co.uk\/2026\/06\/19\/screening-for-my-next-contrarian-winner-me-group-lse-megp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read my full ME GROUP article for ShareScope &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Maynard Paton<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>***ShareScope New Subscriber Special Offer*** Readers of my blog can enjoy a 20% first-year discount! Click here for details &gt;&gt; 20 June 2026By Maynard Paton Shares trading close to their 52-week lows can often provide lucrative buying opportunities for contrarian investors. In particular, promising companies that appear temporarily out of favour can generate very worthwhile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[17676,3463,31178,57651,13174,59928,5967],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-354173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investing","tag-contrarian","tag-group","tag-maynard","tag-paton","tag-screening","tag-sharescope","tag-winner"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Maynard Paton | [ShareScope] Screening For My Next Contrarian Winner: ME GROUP - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=354173\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maynard Paton | [ShareScope] Screening For My Next Contrarian Winner: ME GROUP - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"***ShareScope New Subscriber Special Offer*** Readers of my blog can enjoy a 20% first-year discount! 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