C&W Comms rallies as boss buys
27th Jun 2011 15:51
Shares in Cable & Wireless Communications were in demand Monday after it revealed the telecom company's chief executive Anthony Rice shelled out nearly £1m on shares. Rice bought 2.5m shares at 37.63p a pop. His latest purchase comes on the back of steady falls in the company's share price followin
Read morePersonal record
28th Mar 2011 18:45
Employee benefits provider Personal Group Holdings reported record pre-tax profit for 2010. Revenues grew 2% to £27m. New annualised premiums of Personal's own products are running at £7.2m, with most still coming from the hospital plans. Pre-tax profit grew from £8.54m to £9.38m with the IFA busi
Read moreASOS director banks £2.8m
21st Jan 2011 16:42
Jon Kamaluddin, the international director of AIM-quoted online fashion retailer ASOS, has secured a near-£2.8m gain by exercising options and selling the shares immediately. Kamaluddin exercised options over 80,000 shares at 43.5p a share and 96,995 shares at 58.25p a share. That is a total cost
Read moreTuesday tips round-up: Wolseley, Aberdeen Asset, Dana...
28th Sep 2010 06:47
But by its very nature, Wolseley has little visibility of future trading. It looks like being a long haul, with no particular reason for any sharp improvement. The shares have been ticking up over the past month and on approaching 14 times this year's earnings, could be vulnerable to profit-taking
Read morePersonal Group profits climb
27th Sep 2010 10:52
Employee benefits and insurance provider Personal Group Holdings reported a 15% increase in pre-tax profit in the first half of even though the interest income on its cash pile continues to decline. In the first half of 2009 claims had been higher than normal but they have fallen back to more norm
Read moreMicro Focus chairman takes advantage of price fall
30th Jun 2010 17:00
Micro Focus International has lost nearly one-fifth of its value over the past week following the departure of finance director Nick Bray and this has tempted the software company's chairman to invest just over £400,000. Kevin Loosemore bought 100,000 shares at 401.4p each, which takes his shareho
Read moreSolid Personal figures
22nd Mar 2010 10:02
Employee benefits provider Personal Group Holdings produced a solid set of results although this is masked by goodwill write-offs and lower investment income. Underlying profit declined from £8.66m to £8.52m on slightly lower revenues of £26.4m (£26.8m). Investment income slumped from £508,000 to
Read moreShea takes Daniel Stewart stake to 15%
6th Jan 2010 14:58
Peter Shea has added to his holding in broker Daniel Stewart Securities. Shea is chief executive of the broker and this is his first transaction in the shares since early September before a link up with Cairo-based Prime Group was announced. Middle East investment bank Prime was going to invest £2
Read moreTuesday tips round-up: Marks & Spencer, London & Stamford, Albemarle & Bond
29th Sep 2009 06:47
Investors may be wise to tread carefully with M&S. Its shares have rocketed by more than 65 per cent this calendar year and the price is now above where it was in early June 2008 - before the worst of the credit crunch. While other retail shares are more expensive, M&S's shares, which trade on a 20
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