For my contributions to the 12 Stocks of Christmas, I am choosing four stocks that epitomise Quality, Value, Momentum and Growth for me. I’m starting with Value:
On the 8th Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
IG Design (LON:IGR)
It is apt that IG Design is one of my Christmas stocks as they design and manufacture a huge number of Christmas products. Greetings Cards, Gift Bags amp; Boxes, Gift Wrap, Gift Tags, Accessories, Crackers, Partyware, Decorations, Santa Shop, Christmas Fun, Stationary Essentials, Santa’s Grotto and Christmas Display Solutions are just the category headings in their UK Christmas 2025 Catalogue. They are not all about Christmas, but even their non-seasonal products, such as Frames amp; Albums, Calendars amp; Diaries, and Kids Create, will have highly seasonal sales trends aligned with the same period.
IG Design has been on a bit of a rollercoaster ride in the last 10 years:
It 10-bagged from 2015-2020 as it pursued a growth strategy, but like many companies that prioritise sales growth above all else, it became unstuck. Partly, this was the impact of COVID-19, but then inflationary effects led to losses in 2022 and 2023....
