Schiehallion Fund shares on the climb
This investment trust is up over 50% since early December, but what does the future hold? Independent analyst Alistair Strang runs the numbers in the search for clues.
24th February 2026 07:44
by Alistair Strang from Trends and Targets
We’ve received a few emails asking us to review this share. Generally, from the tone of things, we tend to suspect the price is being ramped in a discussion forum, or perhaps even the financial media. As a result, it’s probably worth some investigation before taking any risks, despite the potentials being fairly impressive. Oddly, we had a good reason to be fascinated by this odd sounding share. It is named after a Scottish mountain we’d actually climbed!
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Hopefully, Schiehallion Fund Ord (LSE:MNTN)'s share price doesn’t share similar tastes to the mountain which the investment trust is named after. The name derives allegedly from Gaelic and an impossible term which translates as 'Fairy Mountain'.
For the record, the Baillie Gifford website says: "The Schiehallion Fund Limited seeks to generate capital growth for investors through long-term minority investments in later stage private businesses."
Currently, above $1.8 should allegedly trigger share price movement to an initial $2.14 with our longer-term secondary, if bettered, calculating at an impressive $2.7. It certainly has potentials but similar to the mountain from which it takes its name, also has dangers, needing below $1.2 to justify serious concern.
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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