Edinburgh Worldwide underperforms in 2016
9th Dec 2016 12:03
(ShareCast News) - Edinburgh Worldwide posted its unaudited preliminary statement for the year to 31 October on Friday, with net asset value per share increasing by 18.0% and the share price by 10.3% over the period. The London-listed firm said the comparative index, the S&P Global Small Cap Index,
Read moreSABMiller CFO takes advantage of recent gains
23rd Nov 2012 16:30
James Wilson, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of drinks giant SABMiller benefitted from the recent surge in the group's share price following the group's first-half results yesterday. The company said today that Wilson had on Thursday exercised options to buy 13,000 shares at an option price of 1
Read moreAZ Electronic Materials CEO sells 46,000 shares
4th May 2012 16:06
Geoff Wild, who has occupied the role Chief Executive Officer at speciality chemicals producer AZ Electronic Materials since January 2010, dumped 46,000 shares in the firm one week after the firm reported a robust performance during a tough first quarter. Wild, 55, disposed of the shares at 322.40
Read moreEdinburgh Worldwide outperforms market
3rd Jun 2011 13:38
Edinburgh Worldwide, the Baillie Gifford-managed investment trust, outperformed its benchmark index in the first half of its financial year. In the six months to the end of April, the company's net asset value (NAV) per share rose by 10.7%, whereas over the same period the MSCI All Countries World
Read moreEdinburgh Worldwide rides tech wave
3rd Dec 2010 15:08
Shares in Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust are at a 52-week high, underpinned by a 21.5% increase in the trust's net asset value per share (NAV) in the year to end-October. The Baillie Gifford managed fund saw its NAV surge to 312.04p at the end of October 2010 from 256.73p. The 21.5% increase
Read moreGartmore boss adds to stake
17th Jun 2010 16:34
Jeffrey Meyer, the chief executive of investment manager Gartmore Group has invested nearly £349,000 in the company's shares. Meyer acquired 300,000 shares at 116.23p each. Gartmore floated last December at a placing price of 220p a share. At that time, Meyer raised £956,000 from selling 434,699 s
Read moreNext boss Wolfson spends £400,000
20th May 2010 16:53
Next's chief executive Simon Wolfson has splashed out £400,000 in shares in the fashion chain. He took 19,231 shares at 2,080p a time, taking his stake to about 1.621m shares, some 0.865% of the company. Wolfson's purchase comes amid a period of weakness in Next's share price in line with the broa
Read moreDavis Service non-exec takes more shares
19th May 2010 16:32
Per Utnegaard, a non-executive director at the laundry and workwear group Davis Service spent nearly £200,000 lifting his stake in the company. He bought 50,000 shares at 399.64p a time and now has 150,000. His bought his first 100,000 shares just before Christmas, paying 394.8p a time. In a trad
Read moreRPS boss cashes in
18th May 2010 16:51
Chief executive Dr Alan Hearne has raised nearly £1m by selling shares in environmental consultancy RPS. Dr Hearne has sold 470,000 shares at an average price of 209.588p each. That leaves him with 15,130 RPS shares and £985,000 in cash. In March, Dr Hearne raised £222,434 from a share disposal
Read morePetrofac director sells before demerger
12th Mar 2010 16:51
Michael Press has raised £1.4m from selling shares in oil services provider Petrofac ahead of the proposed demerger of its oil and gas assets. Press is the senior independent non-executive director on the board of Petrofac. He sold 120,000 shares at 1173.65p each. He retains 120,000 shares. This i
Read moreExperian non-exec improves his finances
10th Mar 2010 16:52
Experian non-executive director Roger Davis has raised just over £700,000 from the sale of shares in the credit checking firm. Davis sold 110,199 shares at 638.5p each. This leaves him with 110,000 shares in Experian. Davis joined the Experian board at the beginning of 2007. He has an army backg
Read moreFD sells after Invista bid talks end
8th Mar 2010 16:49
Invista Real Estate Investment Management finance director Guy Eastaugh sold nearly one-third of his shares in the company the day after it announced that bid talks had ended. Eastaugh sold 150,000 shares at 49p each, which raised £73,500. Prior to the announcement that the takeover talks had ende
Read moreBig Yellow founder sells more
6th Aug 2009 16:22
Philip Burks, one of the founders of Big Yellow, is taking advantage of a recent healthy spike in the share price to trim his stake further. Burks, who was property director at Big Yellow until 2007, sold 250,000 shares at 359p per share, raising £898,000. It is Burks' fourth sale this year and he
Read moreEdinburgh Worldwide bounces back
12th Jun 2009 08:52
Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust saw its net asset value per share rise in the first half of its financial year as global equities bounced back strongly. The investment trust, which invests in listed companies throughout the world with a view to achieving capital growth, said its net asset val
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