Clinical-grade chlorine dioxide products aren’t meant to inspire warm, fuzzy feelings. If they do, the safety manuals suggest you should first wash the affected area, then seek medical help. However, in my case, I’m pretty sure that sentimentalism, not chemical burns, is the issue.
Aim-traded Tristel (TSTL) was one of the first stocks I covered as a small-cap reporter. From the start, the growth story, social utility and financials were easy to grasp and compelling. It was also one of my first ‘tips’ (as the Investors’ Chronicle once called our Ideas).
That buy recommendation has also stood the test of time. The share price has since increased by 464 per cent, or 561 per cent on a total return basis. For context, that’s an annualised return of 19.3 per cent, regardless of whether you reinvested the 86.1p-worth of dividends paid in the intervening 11 years.