Director Dealings Summary - Week Ended March 27 | ||||||||||||
Company | Name | Position | Number of Shares | Resulting Holding | *Note | GBP Value | ||||||
BUYS | ||||||||||||
WM Morrison | David Potts | CEO | 500,000 | 500,000 | Same week as starting as new CEO. | 1,000,000 | ||||||
Porta Communications | Bob Morton | Chairman | 1.3 million | 34.3 million | 975,000 | |||||||
Greggs | Roger Whiteside | CEO | 15,817 | 75,819 | 162,000 | |||||||
Land Securities | Edward Bonham-Carter | Non-Executive Director | 10,000 | 10,000 | First purchase. | 122,000 | ||||||
Meggitt | Nigel Rudd | Deputy Chairman | 20,000 | 20,000 | First purchase. | 113,000 | ||||||
Ophir Energy | Nick Cooper | CEO | 79,500 | 1.3 million | Bought shares a few days after Ophir swung to a pretax profit. | 110,000 | ||||||
Indivior | Shaun Thaxter | CEO | 55,000 | 480,000 | 108,000 | |||||||
GVC Holdings | Kenny Alexander | CEO | 21,740 | 422,073 | Day after reporting positive results. | 99,800 | ||||||
Imagination Tech | Bert Nordberg | Chairman | 35,000 | 35,000 | First purchase. | 76,000 | ||||||
Digital Globe | Jeff Cox | CEO | 113,345 | 3.9 million | Bought shares after company swung to first half loss. | 66,000 | ||||||
Greggs | Richard Hutton | CFO | 6,273 | 62,060 | 64,000 | |||||||
Ophir Energy | Bill Higgs | COO | 44,258 | 44,258 | First Purchase. | 62,000 | ||||||
Greggs | Raymond Reynolds | Retail Director | 5,597 | 58,821 | 57,000 | |||||||
GVC Holdings | Lee Feldman | Chairman | 12,500 | 135,075 | 57,000 | |||||||
GVC Holdings | Richard Cooper | CFO | 10,000 | 336,667 | Day after reporting positive results. | 46,000 | ||||||
London Capital Group | Charles-Henri Sabet | CEO | 175,000 | 6.9 million | Same day as LCG reported a loss. | 42,000 | ||||||
Witan Investment Trust | Suzy Neubert | Non-Executive Director | 4,981 | 9,379 | 40,000 | |||||||
Picton Property | Trevor Ash | Director | 50,000 | 350,000 | 35,000 | |||||||
Ocado | Douglas McCallum | Non-Executive Director | 10,000 | 20,000 | 2 weeks after reporting strong Q1 growth sales. | 34,000 | ||||||
7digital | Donald Cruickshank | Chairman | 150,000 | 150,000 | Same week as 7digital reported narrowed loss. | 22,500 | ||||||
BT Group | Iain Conn | Non-Executive Director | 4,269 | 4,442 | Conn is also CEO of Cenrica. | 19,900 | ||||||
Henderson Value Trust | Richard Gubbins | Chairman | 8,717 | 8,717 | 19,800 | |||||||
Picton Property | Roger Lewis | Director | 28,395 | 530,000 | 19,000 | |||||||
Treatt | Daemmon Reeve | CEO | 12,505 | 123,375 | 18,000 | |||||||
Xaar | Robin Williams | Director | 2,500 | 4,000 | 4 days after posting pretax profit decline. | 13,000 | ||||||
TR Property | Suzie Procter | Non-Executive Director | 3,346 | 3,346 | First purchase. | 10,000 | ||||||
Ubisense | Andy Hopper | Chairman | 9,900 | 234,900 | 3 days after posting a loss. | 10,000 | ||||||
Minds + Machines Group | Antony Van Couvering | CEO | 119,015 | 1 million | 9,600 | |||||||
Ubisense | Ian Kershaw | Non-Executive Director | 2,000 | 2,000 | First purchase. | 2,000 | ||||||
Crossrider | Koby Menachemi | CEO | 68,000 | 142,339 | 10 days after Crossrider reported narrowed loss. | |||||||
SELLS | ||||||||||||
Abcam | Jonathan Milner | Deputy Chairman | 4.6 million | 23.3 million | Proceeds of the sale will be used for tax and estate planning purposes. | 21,500,000 | ||||||
Michael Page | Patrick Hollard | Director | 350,000 | Undisclosed | 1,800,000 | |||||||
Big Yellow | Nicholas Vetch | Chairman | 100,000 | 9 million | 656,000 | |||||||
Carillion | Adam Green | Divisional Manager | 13,009 | Nil | Shares sold by wife. | 430,000 | ||||||
3i Group | Alan Giddins | Managing Partner | 70,000 | Undisclosed | 342,000 | |||||||
Bank of Georgia Holdings | Nikoloz Gamkrelidze | Deputy CEO | 15,000 | 62,165 | 266,000 | |||||||
Greencore | Conor o'Leary | Company Secretary | 30,000 | Undisclosed | 99,000 | |||||||
SOCO International | Robert Cathery | Non-Executive Director | 50,000 | 450,000 | 2 weeks after reported that profit plunged and dividend was cut. | 83,000 | ||||||
Brit | Mark Allan | Chief Risk Officer | 25,000 | 265,997 | Day after Fairfax said takeover offer for Brit declared unconditional | 70,000 | ||||||
Morgan Advanced Materials | Andrew Hosty | COO | 10,000 | 134,988 | 34,600 | |||||||
Synthomer | David Blackwood | CFO | 10,000 | 133,190 | 32,000 | |||||||
Goals Soccer Centres | William Gow | CFO | 14,300 | 1.1 million | 31,000 | |||||||
BT Group | Clive Selley | Divisional CEO | 3,000 | 320,962 | 14,000 | |||||||
Hargreaves Lansdown | Ian Hunter | Investment Marketing Director | 900 | 570,621 | 11,000 | |||||||
*Note: A recent company event around the time of the dealing does not suggest the dealing took place because of that event. When a spouse or related party to a director buys shares, the resulting holding is the beneficial holding of the director | ||||||||||||
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