Share tips 2025: this week’s top picks

If you’ve been keeping a close eye on share tips 2025, then don’t miss this weekly round-up of the top stocks to consider for your portfolio.

The MoneyWeek share tips 2025 guide pulls together some of the best stocks from some of the top share tipsters around.

As well as the UK financial pages, we look at publications across the pond for investors who want to diversify their holdings internationally.

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From Magnificent Seven, which are consistently among the world's most-bought stocks, to finding value in the FTSE 100, we look at where to invest this year.

This list is updated weekly.

Share tips 2025: top picks of the week

Four to buy

1. Sage (LSE: SGE)
The Telegraph
Although Sage trades at the same share price as it did two years ago, the accounting software company has still generated a 58% capital gain and outperformed the FTSE 100 index since June 2021. Sage enjoys strong loyalty from customers and should post double-digit earnings growth this year and next. It is worthy of a “premium” valuation compared with blue-chip peers, as its bottom line has grown 64% over the past three years. Patient investors should see share-price gains in the long run, fuelled by expected interest-rate cuts and lower inflation. 1,073p

2. Galliford Try (LSE: GFRD)
This is Money
Since spinning off its housebuilding arm in 2020, construction group Galliford Try has focused on specialist areas such as military accommodation and secure defence sites, which have delivered “robust gains” in sales, profits and dividends. Galliford also works on schools, prisons, roads, and water infrastructure. The company expects to post an increase in full-year profits and revenue, along with a 15% hike in the dividend. With 90% of revenues secured, its shares may see further growth. 498p

3. Warpaint London (LSE: W7L)
Investors’ Chronicle
Warpaint London’s stock fell 18% after interim sales of £49 million undershot guidance, and the bankruptcy of a customer, Bodycare, has left the cosmetics company with around £800,000 of bad debt. Warpaint now expects full-year adjusted cash profits 9% lower than estimates. Still, Warpaint is debt-free, has a gross margin of 45% and a 5% dividend yield. Despite low consumer confidence and US tariffs, margins are “resilient”. 227p

4. Rightmove (LSE: RMV)
Shares
Rightmove’s recent share-price dip presents an opportunity for those keen to add a strong growth company to their portfolios. The UK’s top property-advertising platform relies more on estate agents’ budgets than on house prices, which offers some safety during downturns. Rightmove has an asset-light business model and the stock’s discount to European peers is “unwarranted” in view of its improving earnings growth. 724p

One to sell

1. Valterra Platinum (LSE: VALT)
The Telegraph
Anglo American recently sold its 19.9% stake in Valterra Platinum, which may “lead to some near-term indigestion”. After a “barnstorming” share-price run of more than 40% in just three months, investors may want to lock in their gain, especially since Valterra is valued at more than three times its historic net asset value (NAV) per share. This valuation is similar to that of other South African platinum miners, but looks “lofty”, even if the long-term case for further gains in the platinum price appears “sound”: the metal is currently trading approximately 40% below 2008’s all-time high. 4,150p

The rest...

1. Eleco (LSE: ELCO)
Investors’ Chronicle
Eleco’s project-management software tracks construction projects by monitoring materials, changing prices and delivery schedules to ensure they are within budget. Demand for its software is growing: interim annualised recurring revenue increased 12% on an organic basis to £30.7 million. Operating profits grew 27% to £1.9 million, which suggests that margins are expanding as it scales up. Eleco expanded into Ireland via the acquisition of software company Pemac for €6 million and is eyeing up further deals. It hiked the interim dividend by 17%. Elco’s valuation is “expensive”, but given its strong cash generation, growth and balance sheet, it doesn’t look overpriced. Buy (150p).

2. Johnson Service Group (LSE: JSG)
Shares
Johnson Service Group provides workwear and protective cleaning wear to the hotel, restaurant and catering sectors. It has a loyal customer base thanks to its national reach and high service levels. Sales growth currently relies on price increases, but it aims to improve efficiency to bolster profitability. The firm targets a 14% adjusted operating profit margin by 2026, supported by expected lower energy costs and interest-rate cuts. Its valuation looks “undemanding”. Buy (146p).

3. XPS (LSE: XPS)
This is Money
Pensions specialist XPS has a record of increasing sales, profits and dividends for years, and “plenty more growth” is expected. The company works with around 1,300 businesses, such as John Lewis and IBM, to manage the pensions of over a million existing and former employees, and 90% of its annual sales are recurring. Analysts expect higher dividends over the next two years. XPS’s shares are a “long-term, defensive buy” (341p).

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