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‘Best café in Liverpool’ to close after 30 years
Jonny HumphriesNorth West
Jonny Humphries/BBCCarly Lea (left) with her mother Susan Lea outside their family run café on Liverpool’s Bold Street A family run café that counted Liverpool legend Sir Kenny Dalglish and Harry Potter star Ralph Fiennes among its customers is shutting up shop after 30 years.
Maggie May’s has avoided jumping on culinary trends or fads despite its location on Liverpool city centre’s bustling Bold Street, a hub for bars and restaurants.
Its menu and style has changed little over the years, with one of its most popular dishes ‘scouse’ – a traditional meat and potato dish well-known across Liverpool.
But after three decades of long hours and hard graft, the Lea family are calling it a day and moving on – leaving regulars without “the best café in Liverpool”.
Carly Lea, who has helped run the café since her parents – Susan and John Lea – founded it in 1995, said leaving would be a wrench but “the time was right” .
She told the BBC: “We’re all getting that little bit older, we’re all getting a little bit weary.
“It’s been absolutely great. It took a couple of years, like most businesses do, to start finding our feet but, we’ve enjoyed a good couple of decades on the street.
“I think the café could go on but physically we feel as though we can’t go on – which is unfortunate but also it’s very, very real and that’s ultimately the main reason. “
Jonny Humphries/BBCA bowl of Maggie May’s homemade scouse, one of its most popular dishes Carly said the gruelling shifts, often topping 12 hours a day, had “taken its toll”.
“But it’s not like a doom and gloom story,” she said.
“Very much the opposite, we’ve loved every single minute of it.”
Carly said she believes Maggie May’s success over the years came from “sticking to what we know” – traditional local food with its background in her mum’s years as a cook in city pub kitchens before founding the business.
Maggie May’s customers span a wide cross-section of society, from football fans heading to Anfield or Goodison Park, to tourists from overseas who return year-after-year.
Over the last three decades Carly has seen children who came in with their parents grow up into adults with their own careers.
‘That’s Voldemort’
The most memorable moments have included serving Sir Kenny on a few occasions, which “big Red” Carly described as a “personal highlight”.
But Carly said the one and only time she has asked for a picture with a customer was when she was “starstruck” by Bafta winning actor Ralph Fiennes in 2023, who popped in for a drink while he was in Merseyside playing the lead in a production of Macbeth.
“Me and my son, we were big fans of Harry Potter, well we still are, so when he came that was a major plus for me,” she said.
“I think I was quite starstruck because it was like; ‘that’s Voldemort’.”
For customers, the news has been a blow.
Anthony McDowell, 54, has been coming to Maggie May’s since the year it opened and said he drops in almost every day.
Carly LeaCarly said she was “starstruck” when Bafta winning actor and Harry Potter star Ralph Fiennes paid a visit in 2023 “Obviously since then the food’s been that nice, the scouse and stuff like that, that I’ve came here ever since,” he said.
“I walk past about four other cafés to get here, it’s only one café in town for me.
“I’ve stayed in hotels in the city that they say have good breakfasts, none of them beats Maggie’s.”
Asked how he felt about it closing down, he said: “Obviously gutted, really gutted, but I know the family well enough.
“I mean I’ve known the family for years and they’re a lovely family, and they’ve spent a lot of hard-working years and I can understand the reasons.”
Carly said the reaction of customers to the announcement Maggie’s is closing its doors for good has surprised her
“It’s been very emotional,” she said.
“People coming in, saying that they’re heartbroken. I guess I didn’t realise the depth of the feelings that people have got for the café until we actually announced that we were going.”
While Carly is ready to move on, she said when they close for the final time on Christmas Eve it will be “very tough”.
“I’m going to get a few boxes of tissues just for the staff,” she said.
“Yeah, it’s bittersweet.”
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Digital Turbine’s latest narrative update leaves fair value steady at $8.75 per share, even as a slightly lower discount rate and largely unchanged revenue growth outlook signal a more confident stance on the durability of its model. Backed by a powerful rerating in high growth ad tech peers and growing belief in the company’s ability to tap larger addressable markets through better tools and broader reach, analysts are refining their assumptions rather than rewriting the story. Stay tuned to see how you can track these evolving assumptions in real time as the market’s view on Digital Turbine continues to shift.
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🐂 Bullish Takeaways
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Recent research on ad tech peers such as AppLovin shows a strong tilt toward higher price targets and Outperform or Buy ratings, reinforcing the idea that investors are willing to pay up for scalable mobile ad platforms with durable growth. This supports a higher multiple framework for Digital Turbine if it can execute.
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Firms including BofA, UBS, Morgan Stanley, RBC Capital, Scotiabank, Benchmark, Wedbush and others have repeatedly raised AppLovin targets into the $700–$860 range on the back of strong execution, expanding addressable markets beyond gaming and improving self serve tools. This pattern underlines the kind of monetization and tooling progress that could unlock upside to Digital Turbine’s current fair value if replicated.
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Analysts highlight that peers are being rewarded for cost leverage, high margins and transparent growth roadmaps into 2026. This implies that consistent delivery against guidance, clearer product milestones and disciplined spending remain the key levers for Digital Turbine to narrow the valuation gap versus best in class ad tech names.
🐻 Bearish Takeaways
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The rapid escalation of peer price targets into the upper end of the range, including BofA’s move to $860 and UBS’s upside case to $1,000, also underscores the main reservation for lagging platforms. Much of the easy upside in high quality ad tech may already be priced in, which could limit how far Digital Turbine’s valuation can rerate without a clear inflection in growth and product adoption.
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🐂 Bullish Takeaways
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Stifel lifted its target to $65 from $55 while reiterating a Buy, citing steady Electron launch cadence with 4 launches in the quarter, higher Electron ASP, and a steadily scaling Space Systems business as the SDA program moves into full production.
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BofA raised its target to $60 from $50 and kept a Buy rating, arguing that an industry shift toward consolidation could favor Rocket Lab in a winner take most model if it continues to execute on strategic vision and integration.
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Bullish analysts emphasize execution and growth momentum, particularly the combination of stable launch operations and expanding Space Systems revenue, as key supports for a higher valuation base despite elevated expectations.
🐻 Bearish Takeaways
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Morgan Stanley trimmed its target slightly to $67 from $68 and maintains an Equal Weight rating, reflecting more cautious views on risk reward even as the market appears to shrug off Neutron schedule shifts into 2026.
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More neutral commentary centers on program risk and spending, with Morgan Stanley warning that schedule revisions for Neutron can prolong program costs and create cascading manifest impacts. This may temper upside even as Electron demand and Space Systems performance remain solid.
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