LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Wednesday.
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FTSE 100 WINNERS
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Wm Morrison Supermarkets, up 1.9%. Figures from Kantar Worldpanel showed that the UK's big-four supermarket chains continue to feel the squeeze from heavy discounters and upmarket grocers, and Morrisons' market share fell to 11.0% from, 11.3% last year. However, that was level with the immediately previous 12 week period as Morrisons managed to stem the rate of decline in its sales.
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FTSE 100 LOSERS
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J Sainsbury, down 2%. The supermarket suffered a small drop in market share to 16.4%, from 16.5%, as its 0.3% sales growth lagged behind the market, according to Kantar Worldpanel. Sainsbury's is usually one of the better performers of the big-four supermarkets in their battle for market share against the discount grocers.
Tesco, down 0.9%. The company's market share declined to 28.8%, from 30.2%, a year before while sales also continue to decline, down 4.0% year-on-year, according to Kantar Woldpanel.
St James Place, down 0.9%, and Capita, down 0.7%. The companies are among the fallers in the blue-chip index after going ex-dividend, meaning new buyers no longer qualify for the latest dividend payouts.
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FTSE 250 WINNERS
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Polymetal International, up 3.4%. The gold, silver and copper miner said revenue in the first half inched up, but it swung to a net profit after impairment charges and foreign exchange losses that hit its results last year weren't repeated. The company reported a net profit in the six months to June 30 of USD100 million, compared with a net loss of USD255 million in the first half of 2013. Polymetal also declared an interim dividend of USD0.08 per share, compared with a dividend of USD0.01 per share last year.
James Fisher & Sons, up 3.2%. The company said trading in its half-year was in line with expectations, leading the marine services provider to up its interim dividend by 10%. The company said half-year profit before tonnage and income tax rose 12% to GBP20.8 million, from GBP18.6 million, and revenue was up 8% to GBP216.1 million, from GBP200.7 million, as it won significant new contracts at home and overseas.
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FTSE 250 LOSERS
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Foxtons, down 5.5%. The estate agent leads the mid-chip index fallers after it warned that growth will be slower in the second half, after a strong first half. The company will once again reward shareholders with a special dividend, after a strong first half underpinned by recovery in the London housing market. It said it will pay an interim dividend of 1.77 pence and a special dividend of 2.77 pence. At the full-year the company paid a final dividend of 1.70 pence and a special dividend of 3.74 pence per share - a total of 5.44 pence per share. Pretax profit rose 57% to GBP23.1 million for the six months ended June 30, from GBP14.7 million a year earlier, as revenue rose 16% to GBP72.8 million from GBP62.6 million, driven by strong sales and mortgage broking growth.
Hays, down 1.1%. The company is down after UBS removed it from its 'Most Preferred List' European Support Services.
BlackRock World Mining Trust, down 1.2%, Rotork, down 1.1%, Croda International, down 0.9%, Segro, down, 0.8%, and Hikma Pharmaceuticals, down 0.7%. The companies are among the fallers in the mid-chip index after going ex-dividend.
Balfour Beatty, down 0.7%. The company said a review of its private-public partnership portfolio has resulted in an increase in the total directors' valuation to GBP1.05 billion as at the end of June, from GBP766 million at the end of December. This comes just weeks after the construction giant ended talks with its construction rival Carillion after disputing the structure of the enlarged group, the benefits the deal would bring to either company, and the sale of Balfour Beatty's US project management business Parsons Brinckerhoff.
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AIM ALL-SHARE WINNERS
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Afriag, up 16%. The company said its new agri-marketing division, AfriAg Marketing Pty Ltd, has sold its first refrigerated 40-foot sea container, containing a gross weight of approximately 20 metric tons of South African-sourced frozen fish products, to clients in China. This sale consists of "unique value added hake retail lines" and general hake fillets for distribution to the wholesaler trade in China.
Monitise, up 13%. The company has agreed a global digital commerce and resourcing alliance with International Business Machines Corp. The companies said they will combine their mobile banking, payments and commerce technology to bring IBM sales and specialist resources to clients around the world with the full spectrum of advice, solution design and delivery of Monitise's Mobile Money services.
Rare Earth Minerals, up 8.2%. The company said that it had continued to make progress on each of its principal investments in Mexico, Greenland and Australia in the half year to end-June. The company posted a pretax loss of GBP647,000, widened from GBP323,000 in the previous year, as administrative expenses rose to GBP641,000 from GBP275,000. It is not revenue producing.
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AIM ALL-SHARE LOSERS
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Polemos, off 26%. The company has said that Executive Director David Lenigas has stepped down from his role as director of the company with immediate effect. Current Finance Director, Donald Strang, will assume the role of Executive Chairman.
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By Neil Thakrar; neilthakrar@alliancenews.com
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UK dividends calendar - next 7 days
Wednesday 8 May | |
Melrose Industries PLC | dividend payment date |
Personal Group Holdings PLC | dividend payment date |
Thursday 9 May | |
Admiral Group PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
AG Barr PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Aurora Investment Trust PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Balanced Commercial Property Trust Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
Bank of Ireland Group PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Bellevue Healthcare Trust PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Braime Group PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Centaur Media PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Chenavari Toro Income Fund Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
Clarkson PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Custodian Property Income REIT PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
CVC Income & Growth Ltd EURO | ex-dividend payment date |
CVC Income & Growth Ltd GBP | ex-dividend payment date |
Domino's Pizza Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Epwin Group PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
F&C Investment Trust PLC | dividend payment date |
Fidelity Special Values PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Focusrite PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Grafton Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Gresham Technologies PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Headlam Group PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Henderson International Income Trust PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
HSBC Holdings PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Ibstock PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Cos Investment Trust PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
Lancashire Holdings Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
LSL Property Services PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
M&C Saatchi PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
M&G PLC | dividend payment date |
Macfarlane Group PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Marwyn Value Investors Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
Midwich Group PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Montanaro UK Smaller Cos Investments Trust PLC | dividend payment date |
Octopus Titan VCT PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
One Media iP Group PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Petershill Partners PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Picton Property Income Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
PRS REIT PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Reach PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Sherborne Investors Guernsey C Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
Sthree PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Sylvania Platinum Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
Taylor Maritime Investments Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
Tracsis PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Travis Perkins PLC | dividend payment date |
UIL Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
Friday 10 May | |
AIB Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Alpha Group International PLC | dividend payment date |
Antofagasta PLC | dividend payment date |
Hammerson PLC | dividend payment date |
Hunting PLC | dividend payment date |
International Personal Finance PLC | dividend payment date |
Invesco Select Trust Global Equity Income PLC | dividend payment date |
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Johnson Service Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Kerry Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Moneysupermarket.com Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Schroder Asian Total Return Inv Co PLC | dividend payment date |
Schroder European Real Estate Investments Trust PLC | dividend payment date |
Schroder Oriental Income Fund Ltd | dividend payment date |
Serco Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Smurfit Kappa Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Somero Enterprises Inc | special dividend payment date |
Taylor Wimpey PLC | dividend payment date |
Tufton Oceanic Assets Ltd | dividend payment date |
VPC Specialty Lending Investments PLC | dividend payment date |
Monday 13 May | |
Games Workshop Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Life Science REIT PLC | dividend payment date |
Seed Innovations Ltd | special dividend payment date |
Smiths Group PLC | dividend payment date |
VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund Ltd | dividend payment date |
Tuesday 14 May | |
BlackRock World Mining Trust PLC | dividend payment date |
Fidelity European Trust PLC | dividend payment date |
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Mondi PLC | dividend payment date |
OSB Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Rathbones Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Uniphar PLC | dividend payment date |
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