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* Hg Capital Trust Net assets of £ 1.85 billion and market capitalisation of £ 1.74 billion . Top 20 ( 81 % of the portfolio by value ) sales growth of 25 % and EBITDA growth of 29 % over the last 12 months . 3 new and 4 further investments deploying £ 112 million with a further 3 investments agreed post period . 5 full and partial realisations delivering £ 87 million back to HGT with 1 further realisation agreed post period . Liquid resources available of £ 305 million ( 16.5 % of NAV ) . Total commitments of c . £ 558 million ( 30 % of NAV ) . £ 25 million in new equity raised via tap issuance . NAV per share at 30 September 2021 was 414.8p , a total return YTD of 35.5 % Q3 Quarterly Report 30 September 2021 Share price at 30 September 2021 was 391.0p , a total return YTD of 30.0 % + 11.6 % Get connected to a universe of software and service businesses + 10.7 % I am pleased to report that the strong performance of the HGT portfolio as reported in the first half of the year has continued into the third quarter . Despite the ongoing disruption caused by COVID - 19 , HGT's portfolio companies continued to see strong performance , with the vast majority tracking well against their respective business plans . HGT's proven strategy of investing in software and service businesses with strong growth prospects and highly resilient business models continues to be validated by the results of these investments . Prospects for the rest of the year remain very encouraging . However , the Board remains ever vigilant to the risk environment in which HGT is operating . We believe that HGT is well placed to maintain its recent record of value creation for shareholders . Jim Strang , Chairman , HgCapital Trust plc References in this document to HgCapital Trust plc have been abbreviated to ' HgCapital Trust ' or ' HGT ' . Hg refers to the trading name of Hg Pooled Management Limited and HgCapital LLP . Hg Pooled Management Limited is the ' Manager ' . References in this document to ' total return ' refer to a return where it is assumed that an investor has re - invested all historic dividends at the time when they were paid .