Sunday share tips: Restaurant Group, Alnwick Garden Trust, Scottish Mortgage
8th Mar 2020 20:56
(Sharecast News) - The Sunday Times's Sabah Meddings told readers that shares of Restaurant Group were best avoided given the issues surrounding its legacy operations.
Read moreDirector dealings: Bodycote's outgoing FD halves stake before ex-div date
7th Apr 2016 15:56
(ShareCast News) - Bodycote's outgoing finance director David Lawless has sold half his shares in the metal heat treatment group. Lawless, who has been at the company since 1999 and is moving into a non-executive portfolio career, made almost £370,000 after selling 62,000 shares at 594.18p apiece
Read moreFinsbury Growth outperforms benchmark in first half
11th May 2015 14:03
Investment trust Finsbury Growth & Income Trust said it outperformed its benchmark in the first half of its financial year. The FTSE 250 group said its share price total return of 17.4% and net asset value total return of 17.3% in the six months to end of March outperformed the FTSE All-Share Index'
Read moreBreedon Aggregates execs top up stakes after strong H1
17th Jul 2014 15:27
Three directors at Breedon Aggregates raised their holdings in the company on Thursday, the same day that it impressed the market with a better-than-expected set of interim results. The board members used a recent dip in the stock to snap up the shares at a price of 39p each, after it hit an all-ti
Read moreHighland Gold Chairman spends big after recent share-price weakness
11th Jul 2013 16:27
The Non-Executive Chairman of Russia-focused resources group Highland Gold Mining invested over one million pounds in the firm one day after the stock reached a 52-week low. As has been the case with the wider mining sector, the share price has suffered since the start of the year as commodity pric
Read moreFinsbury Growth Income Trust posts 7.5 per cent net asset value
31st Jan 2013 15:51
The net asset value of the Finsbury Growth and Income Trust Fund was 7.5 per cent in the three months to December 31st, according to an interim management statement issued by the company on Thursday. In the three month period, the company's share price total return was 5.7%. More recently, in th
Read moreTT Electronics non-exec doubles stake
30th Aug 2012 16:19
Stephen King, an Independent Non-executive Director of electronic component and sensor technology firm TT Electronics, has doubled his stake in the company with the purchase of 50,000 shares. King, who joined TT in October last year, handed over £74,125 for the shares, which he purchased for 148.2
Read moreGalliford Try CEO buys shares while his other firm sells
13th Mar 2012 16:13
Greg Fitzgerald, the Chief Executive of Galliford Try, the FTSE 250 housebuilding and construction firm, has topped up his stake in the company. The director bought almost £50,000-worth of shares in the firm at the same time Crownway Builders, a company in which Fitzgerald owns 37.5%, sold off mor
Read moreDragon's Den's Peter Jones puts up the money
15th Aug 2011 13:17
Dragon's Den entrepreneur and business tycoon Peter Jones has used some of the proceeds of his sale of one of his telecoms businesses, Wireless Logic, to buy more shares in the online consumer electronics business eXpansys He bought 35,634,200 shares at 2.42p. Jones, the non-executive deputy cha
Read moreEnterprise bosses add to stakes
5th Aug 2011 13:59
Four senior board members at pub group Enterprise Inns have been buying stakes in the pub group following the company's trading update. Company chairman Hubert Reid, purchased 55,000 shares bringing his total to 300,000, equal to 0.06% of the group's shares, while chief executive Ted Tuppen bought
Read moreBetfair boss spends £1m
15th Jul 2011 17:27
Betfair's chairman and co-founder Edward Wray has opened his account at the online gambling group in a big way, splashing out £1m on shares. He took 152,578 at 655.4p a pop. The purchase comes amid a spell of weakness for Betfair's stock price after the mixed full-year results it reported at the en
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