RE: 3.410 million shares traded at 248.444p at 5:13 pm today [14 May'25]15 May 2025 09:42
BNI - can I ask where you are seeing the total volume number on LSE, I can only see the 'sold' and 'bought' volumes in the Fundamentals tab? Thanks.
"ADVFN classifies these two trades as purchases." - that is only because they were both above the mid price so their algo has 'guessed' that they must both be purchases, the same way as the algo on here works, although being after hours they may sometimes show as unknown instead. They may show up on here after close tonight, if not already this morning - LSE have had several problems with processing their data feeds for some time now.
The trades on the stock exchange look fine and for that volume, to a precise 3 decimal places, and with the trades being off-book and just a few seconds apart normally indicates something like a contract roll-over (future/swap type of thing) rather than normal trading. It could otherwise have been a transfer between institutions at a pre-agreed price, but given the takeover is at 200p I think that unlikely?