Western Selection PLC - AQSE-listed activist investor in small UK companies - Net asset value per share grows to 68 pence on December 31, the end of its financial first half, from 56p on June 30 last year and 47p a year before. Declares no interim dividend. Western Selection explains it stopped paying a dividend back in September 2019 due to the costs of maintaining a stock market listing and as its portfolio companies stopped paying dividends during the virus pandemic. More positively, notes the share prices of its two core holdings, AIM-listings Northbridge Industrial Services PLC and Kinovo PLC, rose by 45% and 11%, respectively, during the six-month period. Interim pretax profit is GBP117,000 - including a dividend from Kinovo - swung from a loss of GBP260,000 a year before.
Current stock price: 40.5 pence
12-month change: up from 35p on March 23, 2021
By Tom Waite; thomaslwaite@alliancenews.com
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