(Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices on Friday.
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FTSE 100 - WINNERS
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Barclays up 6.2%. The lender kicked off the UK banking reporting season with a "resilient" performance in the third quarter of 2020. Barclays said pretax profit for the three months ended September came in at GBP1.15 billion, up sharply from GBP246 million a year earlier. Third-quarter group income declined 6% to GBP5.20 billion from GBP5.54 billion, however. Other FTSE 100 lenders rose in a positive read-across. StanChart climbed 4.7%, Lloyds was up 4.4%, HSBC rose 3.8% and NatWest was up 3.3%. They all report third-quarter results next week.
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FTSE 250 - LOSERS
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Airtel Africa down 4.5%. The Africa-focused mobile operator halved its interim dividend to 1.5 US cents from 3 cents a year earlier. Revenue in the first half of 2020 increased by 11% to USD1.82 billion from USD1.65 billion a year ago, with second-quarter revenue growth of 14%. Reported operating profit for the half year was USD472 million, up 20% year-on-year.
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OTHER MAIN MARKET AND AIM - WINNERS
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Pendragon, up 21%. The motor retailer is piling on more gains after surging 23% on Thursday. It had said Thursday that underlying pretax profit for the three months to ended September was GBP27.3 million, up sharply from GBP3.0 million from a year earlier.
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Goco Group up 6.3%. The price comparison site said revenue in the nine months ended September is up 13% annually at GBP130.5 million. Customers at its AutoSave Live arm have more than doubled to 597 from 241 a year earlier.
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Evgen Pharma, up 16%. The clinical stage drug development firm has landed all regulatory approvals for the STAR trial of its SFX-01 treatment. The drug is used to treat acute respiratory infections. Recruitment for the trial will begin at the end of October.
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OTHER MAIN MARKET AND AIM - LOSERS
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Avingtrans PLC, down 7.4%. Shareholder Nigel Wray sold 3.2 million shares in the company at 250 pence each, landing GBP8.1 million. Wray no longer has a stake in the company, which provides systems and services to the energy and industrial sectors.
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By Eric Cunha; ericcunha@alliancenews.com
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