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Four Aim shares to invest in today

The second half of 2022 is approaching. Six months isn’t much of a time horizon, even for a relatively short-term trader. But as I have a new batch of Aim stocks for you to consider today, let’s check in with my picks from the start of the year (‘Four speculative Aim shares for 2022’, 7 January 2022) to see if the theses still hold.

React (LSE: REAT): 1.15p – HOLD

My first pick was cleaning services firm React Group at 1.4p. Small caps can be volatile, with the stock trading above 2p only to close as low as at 1.10p recently. The company raised its market capitalisation in cash for the acquisition of LaddersFree – a capital-light business that the board believes can be integrated into React’s offering then scaled up. Shareholders may be smarting from this, but the board believes this is an incredible opportunity given LaddersFree’s service partner network and its impressive gross margins of more than 50% in the last two trading years.

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