Last checked at 28 Jul 2017 14:00
28 July 2017
Oxford Metrics plc
("Oxford Metrics" or the "Company")
Grant of Share Options
Oxford Metrics plc (LSE: OMG), the international software company servicing government, life sciences, entertainment and engineering markets, announces that it has granted share options ("Options") to certain of its executive directors and PDMRs to subscribe for up to 1,200,000 ordinary shares of 0.25p each in the capital of the Company:
Number of Options granted | Total Number of Options held following this grant | Total Number of Options held as % of issued share capital | |
Catherine Robertson, Group Executive Director | 400,000 | 400,000 | 0.3% |
Rachel Hudson | 170,000 | 170,000 | 0.2% |
Nicholas Smee | 230,000 | 230,000 | 0.2% |
Imogen Moorhouse | 400,000 | 400,000 | 0.3% |
Prior to these grants the Company had a total of 3,985,723 share options outstanding representing 3.2% of the existing issued share capital of the Company.
All Options are exercisable at a price of 59.1p, being the 30 day average closing price, with half vesting after a period of two years, a quarter vesting after a period of three years and the final quarter vesting after a period of four years. The options are exercisable over the period of 10 years from the date of grant.
The information set out below is provided in accordance with the requirements of Article 19(3) of the EU Market Abuse Regulation No 596/2014.
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated | |||||
a) | Name | Catherine Robertson | ||||
2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
a) | Position/status | Group Executive Director | ||||
b) | Initial notification/Amendment | Initial notification | ||||
3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
a) | Name | Oxford Metrics plc | ||||
b) | LEI | N/A | ||||
4 | Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted | |||||
a) | Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code | Share Options over Ordinary Shares of 0.25p each
ISIN for Oxford Metrics plc Ordinary Shares GB0030312788 | ||||
b) | Nature of the transaction | Grant of share options | ||||
c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d) | Aggregated information
| n/a | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction | 28 July 2017 | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue | ||||
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated | |||||
a) | Name | Rachel Hudson | ||||
2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
a) | Position/status | PDMR | ||||
b) | Initial notification/Amendment | Initial notification | ||||
3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
a) | Name | Oxford Metrics plc | ||||
b) | LEI | N/A | ||||
4 | Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted | |||||
a) | Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code | Share Options over Ordinary Shares of 0.25p each
ISIN for Oxford Metrics plc Ordinary Shares GB0030312788 | ||||
b) | Nature of the transaction | Grant of share options | ||||
c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d) | Aggregated information
| n/a | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction | 28 July 2017 | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue | ||||
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated | |||||
a) | Name | Nicholas Smee | ||||
2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
a) | Position/status | PDMR | ||||
b) | Initial notification/Amendment | Initial notification | ||||
3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
a) | Name | Oxford Metrics plc | ||||
b) | LEI | N/A | ||||
4 | Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted | |||||
a) | Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code | Share Options over Ordinary Shares of 0.25p each
ISIN for Oxford Metrics plc Ordinary Shares GB0030312788 | ||||
b) | Nature of the transaction | Grant of share options | ||||
c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d) | Aggregated information
| n/a | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction | 28 July 2017 | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue | ||||
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated | |||||
a) | Name | Imogen Moorhouse | ||||
2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
a) | Position/status | PDMR | ||||
b) | Initial notification/Amendment | Initial notification | ||||
3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
a) | Name | Oxford Metrics plc | ||||
b) | LEI | N/A | ||||
4 | Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted | |||||
a) | Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code | Share Options over Ordinary Shares of 0.25p each
ISIN for Oxford Metrics plc Ordinary Shares GB0030312788 | ||||
b) | Nature of the transaction | Grant of share options | ||||
c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d) | Aggregated information
| n/a | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction | 28 July 2017 | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue | ||||
For further information please contact:
Oxford Metrics plc | +44 (0) 1865 261800 |
Nick Bolton, CEO | |
David Deacon, CFO | |
FTI Consulting | +44 (0) 20 3727 1000 |
Matt Dixon / Charles Palmer / Emma Appleton / Harry Staight | |
N+1 Singer (NOMAD to Oxford Metrics) | +44 (0) 20 7496 3000 |
Shaun Dobson / James White |
About Oxford Metrics plc
Oxford Metrics develops and markets analytics software for motion measurement and infrastructure asset management to clients in over 70 countries worldwide. Our list of clients across the globe is as diverse as the markets we operate in; we help highways authorities manage and maintain their road networks, hospitals and clinicians decide therapeutic strategies and Hollywood studios create stunning visual effects. And the diversity of applications is growing all the time.
The group trades through two subsidiaries: Vicon and Yotta. Vicon is the world's leader in high precision motion measurement analysis to thousands of customers worldwide, including Guy's Hospital, EA Sports, MIT and NASA and our software is used in an ever expanding range of applications. Yotta provides cloud-based infrastructure asset management software to central and local government agencies and other infrastructure owners. Yotta has a large number of high profile clients including Highways England and Amey in the UK and VicRoads in Australia amongst others.
Founded in 1984 our group is headquartered in Oxford with offices in Leamington Spa, Gloucester, California, Colorado and Singapore. Since 2001, Oxford Metrics (LSE: OMG), has been a quoted company listed on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange.
For more information about Oxford Metrics, visit www.oxfordmetrics.com