Two and half months ago, on Tuesday 2nd December 2025, I featured the shares of Gooch & Housego (LON:GHH), the photonics technology group. It was then capitalised at £134m, with its shares standing at 512p. Two months later they peaked at 818p, a near 60% gain, since when they have eased back to 708p on the back of profit-taking. However, by the middle of this week, they were back up to 780p, before closing at 740p yesterday. Not only do we see a nervous share price movement, but also some ‘backing and filling’ ahead of corpor...

