Conygar's director buys shares after "excellent" H1 results
8th Dec 2014 16:06
Preston Rabl, executive director at Conygar Investment company, on Monday bought 140,000 shares for 180p each. Rabl now holds 1.49m shares in the company following the £252,000 deal. The share purchase comes one week after the investment firm released its preliminary results for the first half of t
Read moreWednesday broker round-up
3rd Dec 2014 09:41
AstraZeneca: Morgan Stanley increases target price from 4100p to 4300p, while downgrading to 'underweight'. BG Group: Barclays reduces target price from 1300p to 1100p and reiterates an 'equal-weight' rating. Credit Suisse reduces target price from 1050p to 940p and maintains an 'underperform' ratin
Read moreWednesday broker round-up UPDATE
21st May 2014 08:36
African Minerals: Citi reduces target price from 260p to 190p, while leaving its buy recommendation unchanged. Alliance Pharma: Numis lowers target price from 39p to 37p and maintains an add rating. APR Energy: JP Morgan shifts target price from 1082p to 1089p keeping its overweight rating. Astra
Read moreSunday share tips: easyJet, Drax, Congyar
11th May 2014 12:54
Buy shares of easyJet, the Sunday Times's Danny Fortson advised in his Inside the City column. Rival budget airline Ryanair is playing catch-up on the service front but easyJet has already gone up-market by making life easier for passengers and easyJet only competes with its Irish rival on about 5%
Read moreAberdeen Deputy CEO trousers 5.4m pounds as shares 10-year high
19th Dec 2013 14:39
It was revealed that Aberdeen Asset Management's Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Andrew Laing sold 2.6m pounds in shares earlier this week as well as selling 2.7m pounds-worth of new shares awarded in his long-term bonus plan. Aberdeen shares recently hit heights not seen since 2001. Down th
Read moreConygar Investment forms truck-stop venture with Betfred founder
5th Dec 2013 07:58
AIM-listed property group Conygar Investment Company (CIC) is to develop and operate a truck-stop facility at its site at Holyhead, Anglesey, through a new joint venture. CIC, along with truck-stop group Road King, will occupy a 14-acre site and create 200-space truck stop and associated amenities
Read moreHiscox and Restaurant Group CEOs sell up
27th Sep 2013 16:11
Chief Executive at Hiscox, Bronek Masojada, has sold 10,000 shares at 650.50p a piece in the insurance provider. The sale generated £65,050 for Masojada, who joined the company in 1993. For the first half of the year the group posted a pre-tax profit of £180.7m (2012: £125.8m), helped by low ex
Read moreVedanta Deputy Executive Chairman trades in 50,000 shares
20th Sep 2013 08:22
Navin Agarwal, the Deputy Executive Chairman, of mining group Vedanta, on Thursday disposed of 50,000 shares, reducing his stake to 167.53m. The director sold the stock at 1,174p a time, earning himself £587,000. This week the company welcomed Tom Albanese, the former Chief Executive of Rio Tint
Read moreBurberry non-exec buys as Blinkx director sells up
4th Sep 2013 16:17
Burberry non-Executive Director Matthew Key on Tuesday purchased 1,260 shares in the fashion group. The transaction was made at 1,568.66p a time for a total of £0.2m. Back in July the group said that it was pleased with its first-quarter retail performance which saw underlying revenues rose 18 %
Read moreConygar exchanges contracts with Marston's Property Developments
15th May 2013 10:50
Property investment and development group Conygar Investment Company (Conygar), has reported that contracts have been exchanged with Marston's Property Developments for the sale of 0.7 acres for a public house. The new Marston's family pub and restaurant will be built as part of Conygar's Martello
Read moreLo-Q founding director trades in 200,000 shares
21st Feb 2013 16:18
Leonard Sim, the founding director of Lo-Q, an AIM-listed technology solutions provider to the attractions and leisure industry, sold one million pounds-worth of shares in the group on Thursday. The transaction reduced Sim's stake by 200,000 shares, which he disposed of at 500p each. He now holds
Read more3i director invests in 100,000 shares
30th May 2012 16:15
A Non-Executive Director of 3i, a private equity, infrastructure and debt management group, has taken advantage of the company's declining share price to buy up 100,000 shares. Willem Mesdag, who joined the firm in 2007, bought the shares at 175p a pop for a total of £175,000. Two weeks ago the
Read moreForum director exercises options over one million shares
29th May 2012 16:06
Walter Brown, a Non-Executive Director of UK based gas & oil Forum Energy, has exercised one million shares in the company at 31p each. The £310,000 transaction took place on March 25th, the same day the company unveiled the findings of a report which shows an improvement in the previously known r
Read morePearson boss stocks up
5th Jan 2012 15:48
Marjorie Scardino, Chief Executive of Financial Times publisher Pearson, has marked her fifteenth anniversary in the role with the purchase of 374 American Depository Receipts (ADRs). ADRs represent the ownership of shares in a non-US company. The purchase was made as part the firm's employee stock
Read moreHornby chief exec builds stake
6th Jun 2011 16:00
The chief executive of Hornby Frank Martin has topped up his holding in the train set maker and now has nearly 1% of the company. He took 20,000 shares at 142p a time, paying a total of £28,400. That takes his holding to 374,092 shares, about 0.97% of the company. His purchase comes soon after Hor
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