I have to say that I also started with individual stocks to take advantage of tax allowances through distributions for the time being, but I am now well advanced with this and now ETFs are being added - China, S&P etc.
$EXENS (-2.25%) I hold 500 shares and see a company still in construction. They are hiring people to build up some strategic functions and the board of directors will have to shape the CEO's message to the investors community. Still very young as a public company but I see it as a mid term investment with solid earnings and reasonable cash performance.
Exosens is a customer of mine that produces optics for night vision devices in France, target optics (rifles) in Holland and optics for Javelin anti-tank missiles in Wales.
Unfortunately, the stock market listing was completely under the radar.
And there is a bit of sentimentality in the purchase, the staff at the French plant are always so incredibly friendly despite the language barrier.
