Walker Crips Share News (WCW)

Walker Crips Swings To Operating Profit; Assets Under Management Rise 53%

DIRECTOR DEALINGS: Walker Crips CEO Acquires Shares

DIRECTOR DEALINGS: Walker Crips CEO, Other Directors Granted Shares

Disposal proceeds help Walker Crips book record profits

AIM-listed financial services group Walker Crips reported flat revenue but delivered record pre-tax profits in the year ended March 31st after a one-off gain from the disposal of its fund management subsidiary last year. The company, which provides investment management and wealth management servic

Walker Crips revenue slips, notes fresh optimism

Financial services group Walker Crips reported a decline in third quarter net revenue, following depressed market conditions, but said it is optimistic about future growth if the recent upturn in investor sentiment is sustained. Group net revenue for the quarter to December 31st 2012 fell by 3.8%

Walker Crips Group cuts divi after tough half year

Walker Crips, an integrated financial services group, has told investors it suffered 'difficult trading conditions' in the half year ended September 30th and said broadly lower transaction volumes in what were weaker equity markets results in a negative impact on performance. As a result, the divi

M&A round-up: Walker Crips, Randall & Quilter, Marwyn ...

Financial services group Walker Crips is to sell its corporate finance subsidiary Keith, Bayley, Rogers & Co (KBR) to BWV investments. The purchase price is £75,000 over the value of KBR's assets as at the end of October; these are expected by the Walker Crips directors to be in the region of £270,

Henderson director makes sale

David Jacob, Managing Director of Investment Management at fund manager Henderson Group, has sold 429,000 shares at 120.60p. The £517,374 sale was made after the director acquired just over two million shares on the vesting of a share plan. Following the transaction Jacob now holds around 2.466m

Walker Crips profits down on falling revenue and FuM

Walker Crips, the integrated financial services group, admitted that trading during the third quarter remained weak, with group net revenue down 9.8% to £3.76m. The firm attributed this, in part, to the fact equity market volumes remained relatively low. Overall funds under management (FuM) at D

Walker Crips Private Client Director Sunderland To Retire

LONDON (Dow Jones)--Walker Crips Group PLC (WCW.LN) Friday announces that Michael Sunderland, Private Client Director, is to retire from the Board and the Company with effect from Feb. 28, 2011. MAIN FACTS: -Sunderland, 64, joined the Company in 1972 and has held a number of senior executive

UK SMALLCAP ROUNDUP: Healthcare Locums Buys 3 Staffing Firms

Dow Jones smallcap news is now on Twitter, allowing you to catch up on the news away from your desk. Go to http://twitter.com/DJ_UK_Smallcaps HEALTHCARE LOCUMS PLC (HLO.LN) said Friday it has agreed to buy three specialist nursing and healthcare staffing businesses and has raised GBP11 million

Walker Crips Funds Under Management Rise 2.4% In 1Q To GBP645M

LONDON (Dow Jones)--Financial services group Walker Crips Group PLC (WCW.LN) Friday said funds under management rose 2.4% in its first quarter as trading activity continued to improve despite a background of uncertainty and volatility. In an update on trading for the three months to June 30, Wal

Walker Crips increases funds under management

Private client broker Walker Crips Group has increased its funds under management from £383m to £630m over the past year. The growth came from a combination of investment performance and new money. Higher performance-related staff costs and the costs of additional trading held back the profitabili

Walker Crips FY10 Pretax Profit +39% To GBP1.52M, Raises Dividend

LONDON (Dow Jones)--Walker Crips Group PLC (WCW.LN), an integrated financial services group, Tuesday reported a 39% rise in fiscal 2010 pretax profit and raised the dividend to reflects the Board's confidence in the future strength and profitability of the business. MAIN FACTS: -Total revenu

Small caps round-up: Medusa Mining, Printing.com, Brooks Macdonald...

Gold miner Medusa Mining announced a doubling of the probable reserves estimate at its Co-O Mine in the Philippines. The probable reserve now stands at 1,041,000 tonnes at 14.9g/t gold containing 500,000 ounces of gold, an increase of 101% or 251,000 ounces from an estimate of 249,000 ounces at 10.