ISL.L Share News (ISL)

One sells as another buys on Winkworth board

Winkworth, an AIM-listed franchisor of residential real estate agencies, announced deals made by two of its directors on Friday. Chief Executive Officer, Dominic Agace, acquired 3,000 shares at 163p each, taking his interest to 541,128, equal to a 4.3% stake. Meanwhile, the wife of Simon Agace,

IS Solutions Raises Dividend 9.1% On Increased Revenues, Pretax Profits

IS Solutions cautions on business flow

Shares in IS Solutions, a solution provider for IT services, were lower on Tuesday despite a strong set of results after cautioning on the possible effects of 'external factors', which it believes could have an impact on its anticipated business flow over the remainder of 2012. In the half year to

Standard Life boss's wife buys

Caroline Nish, the wife of Standard Life's chief executive David Nish, has taken more shares in the insurer, spending £100,000. She took 49,335 shares at 201.4p a pop and now has 620,744. In a trading update in April, David Nish said Standard Life had a good start to 2011. "Strong sales across ou

F&C chairman continues buying

F&C Asset Management chairman Edward Bramson's interests have been consistently buying shares in the past week, while F&C chief executive Alain Grisay has made a significant disposal. Bramson was appointed chairman of F&C last month after a shareholder coup but his investment vehicle SIGA LP had

Small caps round-up: Axis-Shield, Cluff Gold, Falkland Oil...

Diagnostics company Axis-Shield turned over more than £100m for the first time last year and has paid a maiden dividend. Revenue rose 5% to £101.7m in 2010, though underlying profit fell from £8.1m to £7.1m. Profit, including £3.1m of currency and disposal gain in 2009 dropped from £11m to £7.5m.

Small caps round-up: Enegi Oil, Assura, Pressure Tech...

Enegi Oil says the pressure results from the ongoing chemical soak at its PaP#1 Garden Hill South (GHS) well in Newfoundland are "positive". A second chemical soak is planned to improve connectivity even further. Chemicals and acid will be injected down the wellbore at a significantly higher pressu

Experian non-exec invests £101,000

Non-executive director Judith Sprieser has invested £101,000 in credit checking firm Experian. Sprieser, who was appointed to the board in June, bought 13,590 shares at 746.25p each. Sprieser is a former boss of technology software company Transora and prior to that finance director of Sara Lee.

Small caps round-up: Corero, GMA, TEG ...

Software company Corero scraped into the black in the first half of the year with a pre-tax profit of £21,000, versus a loss the year before of £0.45m. Revenues edged higher to £2.21m from £2.20m a year earlier. "The outlook for the Business Systems division is positive as it is a major provider o

Small caps round-up: Forbidden Technologies, Statpro, PetroLatina...

Shares in Forbidden Technologies rallied after the internet video streaming firm announced that Renegade Pictures is using its video platform FORscene for the production of its fourth series of BBC 3 series 'Don't Tell The Bride'. Asset management data firm Statpro posted a 10% drop in half year pr

Small cap round-up: IS Solutions, William Sinclair, CBG

Online technology services provider IS Solutions is growing profits on the back of increasing managed services revenues. Two-fifths of the revenues of £9.78m in 2009 relate to managed services. Underlying profits, excluding amortisation and the costs of moving back to Aim in 2008, improved from £5

Small caps round-up: IS Solutions, Netservices, Plant Health Care...

Higher revenues helped software services group IS Solutions post broadly unchanged profits in the six months to June 30. Pre-tax profits for the period totalled £184,000, compared with £189,000 the previous year, as revenues soared to £5.12m from £3.64m. During the year, the company completed the p