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Director dealings: Zegona chief makes second purchase of the week

Thu, 04th Aug 2016 16:18

(ShareCast News) - Zegona Communications chief executive Eamonn O'Hare continued to top up his stake in the company after the shares were hit by the company walking away from a potential Spanish acquisition.O'Hare, a former chief financial officer of Virgin Media and Tesco UK, has this week spent £226,000 as he snapped up two 100,000-share batches of shares at price of 113p both times. Around a month ago, O'Hare bought 50,000 shares at a price of 109p.Zegona, which floated on AIM in March last year with the mission of conducting a 'buy-fix-sell' strategy in the European TMT sector,In late June Zegona reported on strong first-quarter results at its first and only acquisition so far, north-west Spain-based Telecable, where its year-on-year revenue growth highest in last six years.On the same day, Zegona announced that it had terminated all discussions on the potential acquisition of fellow Spanish operator Yoigo after a "protracted and inconclusive" talks with minority shareholders, despite having had 100% underwritten financing and reached agreement with major shareholder TeliaSonera.Shares in Zegona, which had reached 130p before that point, fell to 102p in the days after, and have since risen, helped by O'Hare and fellow directors' purchases.Top Director BuysBank Of America Corp. (BAC)Director name: D. Woods,Thomas Amount purchased: 25,000 @ $14.13Value: $353,250.00Zegona Communications (ZEG)Director name: OÂ'Hare,EamonnAmount purchased: 100,000 @ 113.00pValue: £113,000.00Vitec Group (VTC)Director name: Humphrey,ChristopherAmount purchased: 5,000 @ 570.00pValue: £28,500.00Hvivo (HVO)Director name: Ellertson,JaimeAmount purchased: 7,801 @ 186.50pValue: £14,548.87Hvivo (HVO)Director name: Winschel ,JamesAmount purchased: 2,145 @ 186.50pValue: £4,000.43Talktalk Telecom Group (TALK)Director name: Torrens,IainAmount purchased: 90 @ 203.40pValue: £183.06Marshalls (MSLH)Director name: Clarke,JackAmount purchased: 56 @ 267.70pValue: £149.91Top Director SellsKeller Group (KLR)Director name: Hind,JamesAmount sold: 12,515 @ 870.00pValue: £108,880.50Keller Group (KLR)Director name: Sondermann,WolfgangAmount sold: 11,429 @ 870.00pValue: £99,432.30

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