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Interim Management Statement

7 May 2015 10:41

RNS Number : 4858M
Mobeus Income & Growth VCT PLC
07 May 2015
 

Mobeus Income & Growth VCT plc ("the Company")

 

INTERIM MANAGEMENT STATEMENT

For the quarter ended 31 March 2015

 

Mobeus Income & Growth VCT plcpresents an Interim Management Statement for the quarter ended 31 March 2015. The statement also includes relevant financial information between the end of the period and the date of this statement.

 

NET ASSET VALUE AND TOTAL RETURN PER SHARE

At 31 March 2015

At 31 December 2014

Net assets attributable to shareholders

ÂŁ74,998,809

ÂŁ60,410,077

Shares in issue

76,004,674

60,750,032

Net asset value (NAV) per share

98.68p

99.44 p

Cumulative dividends paid

64.30p

64.30 p

Total return (net asset value basis) per share since inception

162.98p

163.74 p

% return on initial net asset value per share of 94.5 pence

72.5%

73.3%

 

The net asset value per share has fallen by 0.76 pence over the quarter.

 

DIVIDENDS

A second interim dividend of 7.00 pence per share comprising 5.80 pence from capital and 1.20 pence from income in respect of the year ended 31 December 2014 was paid to shareholders on 30 April 2015. This was in addition to the interim dividend of 17.00 pence per share (comprising 15.00 pence from capital and 2.00 pence from income) paid to shareholders on 17 September 2014. This second interim dividend brought total dividends paid in respect of 2014 to 24.00 pence per share and cumulative dividends paid since inception to 71.30 pence per share. The 7.00 pence per share dividend payment reduced the NAV per share above to 91.68 pence.

 

NEW INVESTMENT

In February 2015, the Company invested a further ÂŁ1.38 million into the acquisition vehicle, South West Services Investment Limited ("SWSIL") adding to its earlier investment of ÂŁ1.14 million. This enabled SWSIL to support the MBO of Media Business Insight Limited ("MBIL") a publishing and events business focused on the creative production industries, specifically advertising, TV production and film. The Company also advanced a non-qualifying loan of ÂŁ0.76 million to MBIL.

 

The Company made a further loan stock investment of £1.00 million in February 2015 into Entanet Holdings Limited, one of the UK's leading independent wholesale voice and data communications providers. This was as negotiated at the time of the original investment in February 2014.

 

The Company also invested a further ÂŁ2.93 million into two new acquisition vehicles just before the period-end.

 

Following the period-end, the VCT invested ÂŁ12.11 million into eight new acquisition vehicles. These investments were made to preserve the Company's existing successful investment strategy, by providing sufficient funds to meet the Company's estimated requirements for investment for approximately the next two years. These steps were taken in response to uncertainties surrounding the timing and full implications of forthcoming changes to be implemented to the VCT Scheme in the proposed 2015 Finance Act.

 

Following the period-end in April 2015, the VCT made a further investment of ÂŁ1.51 million to support the MBO of Synbra UK, one of the UK's largest domestic manufacturers of expanded polystyrene products, using the acquisition vehicle Duncary 16 Limited.

 

DIVESTMENTS

No divestments were completed during the quarter to 31 March 2015.

 

LOAN STOCK REPAYMENTS

The VCT received repayments from Tessella Holdings Limited, Fullfield Limited (trading as Motorclean) and Tharstern Group Limited, together totalling ÂŁ313,000, during the quarter to 31 March 2015 and ÂŁ61,000 since the period-end from Fullfield Limited (trading as Motorclean).

 

SHARE BUYBACKS

The Company did not make any purchases of its own shares during the quarter ended 31 March 2015.

 

OFFER FOR SUBSCRIPTION

During the quarter ended 31 March 2015, the Company issued and allotted a total of 15,254,642 ordinary shares in the Company under the offer for subscription launched on 10 December 2014. The shares were issued at average effective offer prices ranging from 96.9 to 99.4 pence per share, raising net proceeds of ÂŁ14.55 million (after deducting initial costs). The offer closed on 10 March 2015 having raised the full amount of ÂŁ15 million offered for subscription.

 

 

For further information, please contact:

Sarah Penfold, for Mobeus Equity Partners LLP, Company Secretary: 020 7024 7616.

This information is provided by RNS
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