A possible catalyst for Liontrust Asset Management shares
These shares have been a terrible performer, but independent analyst Alistair Strang has run his charts and found something that could trigger recovery.
15th January 2026 07:47
by Alistair Strang from Trends and Targets
As you can see here, the market ticker code assigned to Liontrust Asset Management (LSE:LIO) is LIO, and it’s mildly interesting because LIO is also Spanish for “being in a mess!”, it’s easy to assume the company share price is adhering to the core meaning for LIO rather than the attempt to hold a ticker synonymous with the company name, almost! Unfortunately, they also now have a ticker in LIO which aligns perfectly with the share price performance since 2021.
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And make no mistake, it is a mess. Since the start of 2025, the share price has been trading in a zone where we cannot calculate a bottom target, not unless we start using minus signs in front of our drop numbers.
However, some hope may be unearthed in the detail that some sharp recovery is usually possible, if only the share price would successfully close a session above Blue on the chart below. Presently this demands closure above 270p to tick the first box in a journey toward a happier place.
Share price closure above 270p should trigger recovery to an initial 318p with our secondary, if bettered, at 406p. This secondary risks becoming a problem, visually aligning with a series of hesitations during 2025, creating what looks like a stutter level sometime in the future.
Despite that, closure above 270p would suggest a long-term cycle to 465p has commenced, and we’d strongly suspect a bunch of folk trapped at the four quid level shall create selling pressure if the price returns to such a point, creating a self fulfilling prophecy.
If we employ our usual negative scenario, the best we dare suggest is movement below 205p presents a future 180p as a “potential” bottom, but our inclination is to suspect sudden recovery is expected, if only the company can discover some good, tidy, orderly, news to feed to the marketplace.
Perhaps worth watching as we’ve been asked about this a few times.
Source: Trends and Targets. Past performance is not a guide to future performance.
Alistair Strang has led high-profile and "top secret" software projects since the late 1970s and won the original John Logie Baird Award for inventors and innovators. After the financial crash, he wanted to know "how it worked" with a view to mimicking existing trading formulas and predicting what was coming next. His results speak for themselves as he continually refines the methodology.
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