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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We look at where to invest in 2025 – from big tech stocks and top funds to finding value in the FTSE 100.

This list is updated weekly on a Friday.

Share tips 2025: top picks of the week

Four to buy

1. Fever-Tree (LSE: FEVR)
The Telegraph
Fever-Tree’s shares have risen 16% this year. Sales rose 3% in the latest financial year, and gross profit margins improved. Although earnings growth is not anticipated this year owing to the recent tie-up with Molson Coors in the US, the beverage company’s long-term prospects are “sound”. With its growing market share, Fever-Tree is well-placed to take advantage of the industry’s improving outlook and expected lower inflation. The stock is worthy of a “premium” valuation thanks to Fever-Tree’s solid fundamentals and upbeat earnings outlook. 778p

2. 3i Infrastructure (LSE: 3IN)
Shares
3i Infrastructure is to benefit from the energy transition, digitalisation, demographic change and vital infrastructure being renewed. Its £4 billion portfolio is invested in 12 assets, which generated £273 million of cash last year. Dividends have grown at an annualised rate of 18% per year since 2015, outperforming its peers’ average pace of 10%. Interest rates appear to be easing, and the shares trade at a 15% discount to their net asset value, which is a “great” buying opportunity for a “high-quality, defensive growth company”. 309p

3. Wickes (LSE: WIX)
Interactive Investor
Wickes has an “attractive” risk/reward profile. Its kitchen and bathroom installation arm “continues to look exposed”, but its main retailing division remains “soundly positioned” in the market. Last year, revenue slipped 1%, and profit was down, but the dividend was held at 10.9p a share, and 11.2p is expected for this year. “Unless a worst-case scenario” of tax rises and a global trade war results in a recession, Wickes is “well-positioned for straitened times” as people often resort to home improvement as a “mental pep-up”. 178p

4. Everplay (LSE: EVPL)
Interactive Investor
Everplay has been “unfairly” caught up in the video-game sell-off. The games developer’s full-year revenue and adjusted cash profit grew thanks to higher sales of games developed using its own intellectual property. Everplay’s Hell Let Loose multiplayer game is popular, and it has ten new games and apps to release. With an 8% free cash flow yield, it’s hard to see why the stock isn’t higher. The shares’ decline is a buying opportunity. 248p

One to sell

Vistry (LSE: EVOK)
Investors’ Chronicle
Vistry issued three profit warnings last year after struggling with tougher building safety provisions and softer demand. Full-year completions and revenue rose, but pretax profit fell, net debt more than doubled, and operating cash inflow declined. Vistry expects activity to improve as the government’s £2 billion of affordable housing funding is allocated, but stretched budgets at affordable housing providers highlight the risks in Vistry’s new model. “While we don’t think that things can get much worse, we also don’t see them getting much better.” There are better, more reliable housebuilders. “Sell.” 538p

The rest...

1. YouGov (LSE: YOU)
Investors’ Chronicle
YouGov’s transition from a traditional research agency into a data platform generating subscription-like sales has been slow, and debt has increased. Yet renewal rates have stabilised, with several new clients arriving recently. The company has plans to launch new products, improve existing offerings with AI, set up a new sales team, and cut costs. The stock has plummeted 71% over the past 12 months, but the “market may not be adequately pricing in growth prospects”. YouGov is a “recovery buy” (281p).

2. Shell (LSE: SHEL)
The Telegraph
Shell is to refocus on oil and pivot away from renewables. It will maintain oil output until 2030, cap the annual capital expenditure budget at $22 billion, with 10% allocated to low-carbon projects, and trim costs. This is expected to grow cash flow per share by 10% annually until 2030 and increase operational cash flow returned to shareholders to around 50%. Dividends and share buybacks in 2024 hit $22.6 billion, 10% of Shell’s market value. Any plan to increase this is “noteworthy and likely to catch the eye of income-seekers”. Hold (2,787p).

2. Gaming Realms (LSE: GMR)
Shares
Gaming Realms is a leader in the business-to-business licensing and distribution of games to the regulated gaming market, owning the Slingo brand. The company’s recent record results and a £6 million buyback helped revive the games distributor’s share price. Content licensing revenue rose last year, thanks to growth in North America, its biggest market, and it has continued to grow in the first two months of 2025. Gaming Realms is in a “robust” financial position, and growth prospects look “solid”, while the stock is “attractive”. Hold (36p).

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