Investors in business-to-business information and training provider Wilmington (WIL) might be feeling uneasy following the recent departure of veteran chief executive Charles Brady. Finance director Anthony Foye may have settled some nerves by shelling out £140,000 for 65,000 shares in the group, raising his stake by 15 per cent.
Mr. Foye's purchase comes only a month after Wilminton posted strong results for the year ended June 30. Digital investments and international expansion helped it to grow its underlying pre-tax profits by 13 per cent. Moreover, regulatory crackdowns in the finance industry spurred a 14 per cent rise in underlying sales at its banking and compliance division. The main issues lay in Wilmington's legal and healthcare divisions, which have been hit, respectively, by more lenient training requirements for solicitors and depressed spending in the pharmaceutical industry.
Broker Westhouse Research forecasts full-year pre-tax profits of £18m, giving EPS of 15.4p, up from £15.8m and 13.7p.
Buys | |||||||
Company | Director | Date | No of shares | Price (p) | Value (£) | Holding (shares) | Holding (%) |
1pm * ♥ | Ron Russell | 22 Oct 14 | 622,950 | 61 | 380,000 | 7,500,252 | 20.351 |
Action Hotels | Stefan Allesch-Taylor | 17 Oct 14 | 144,928 | 69 | 100,000 | 144,928 | 0.098 |
Advanced Oncotherapy | Dr Enrico Vanni | 20 Oct 14 | 1,000,000 | 4.08 | 40,800 | 12,450,000 | 1.211 |
ASOS | Nick Beighton (cfo & coo) | 21 Oct 14 | 22,150 | 2,249.62 | 498,290 | 149,944 | 0.180 |
Augean | Jim Meredith (ch) | 16 Oct 14 | 25,000 | 45.5 | 11,375 | 225,000 | 0.223 |
Augean | Jim Meredith (ch) | 20 Oct 14 | 25,000 | 46 | 11,500 | 270,000 | 0.268 |
Barr (A G) ♥ | JR Nicolson | 22 Oct 14 | 5,500 | 583 | 32,065 | 5,500 | 0.005 |
Burford Capital | Jurat Lowe | 21 Oct 14 | 60,000 | 122 | 73,200 | 160,000 | 0.078 |
Chrysalis VCT | Dr M Knight | 17 Oct 14 | 45,000 | 61 | 27,450 | 245,232 | 0.820 |
Cineworld ♥ | Moshe Greidinger (ce) | 17 Oct 14 | 2,150,000 | 309.3 | 6,649,950 | 76,626,344 | 29.047 |
Cineworld ♥ | Israel Greidinger | 17 Oct 14 | 2,150,000 | 309.3 | 6,649,950 | 76,626,344 | 29.047 |
Development Securities | Richard Upton | 22 Oct 14 | 35,000 | 187 | 65,450 | 2,732,566 | 2.189 |
Development Securities | Marcus Shepherd | 23 Oct 14 | 10,000 | 197 | 19,700 | 60,390 | 0.048 |
Devro | Paul Withers | 21 Oct 14 | 20,000 | 247.32 | 49,464 | 90,000 | 0.054 |
Devro | Peter Page (ce) | 21 Oct 14 | 20,000 | 247.717 | 49,543 | 662,440 | 0.397 |
EnQuest | Clare Spottiswoode | 21 Oct 14 | 19,560 | 76.1 | 14,885 | 19,560 | 0.002 |
EnQuest | Dr Philip Nolan | 17 Oct 14 | 150,000 | 78.1 | 117,150 | 150,000 | 0.019 |
GameAccount Network | Dermot Smurfit (ce) | 20 Oct 14 | 28,000 | 73.25 | 20,510 | 7,384,075 | 13.265 |
Griffin Mining | Adam Usdan | 17 Oct 14 | 100,000 | 37.5 | 37,500 | 29,244,113 | 16.334 |
Griffin Mining ♥ | Adam Usdan | 21 Oct 14 | 50,000 | 39 | 19,500 | 29,244,113 | 16.362 |
Jupiter Fund Management | P Johnson (cfo) | 17 Oct 14 | 12,003 | 332.3 | 39,886 | 1,338,546 | 0.292 |
Just Retirement | Michael Deakin | 22 Oct 14 | 20,000 | 127.62 | 25,524 | 20,000 | 0.004 |
Keller | Paul Withers | 16 Oct 14 | 10,000 | 754.918 | 75,492 | 20,000 | 0.028 |
Minds + Machines | Dr Frederick Krueger (ch) | 20 Oct 14 | 150,000 | 10 | 15,000 | 128,481,604 | 15.473 |
NetPlay TV | Andrew Lapping | 17 Oct 14 | 250,000 | 7.4 | 18,500 | 3,393,684 | 1.144 |
Northern Petroleum | Jon Murphy (ch) | 22 Oct 14 | 100,000 | 15 | 15,000 | 425,200 | 0.446 |
Pacific Alliance Asia Opportunity | MA Miller | 17 Oct 14 | 30,000 | 155.25 | 46,575 | 1,052,054 | 1.047 |
Quindell | Robert Fielding (ce) | 17 Oct 14 | 17,707 | 141.1 | 24,985 | 1,136,097 | 0.260 |
Robert Walters ♥ | L Van de Walle (ch) | 16 Oct 14 | 10,000 | 283.5 | 28,350 | 25,000 | 0.032 |
Shanta Gold | LA Leslie | 20 Oct 14 | 210,000 | 9.5 | 19,950 | 3,260,000 | 0.702 |
Shanta Gold | Anthony Durrant (ch) | 21 Oct 14 | 200,000 | 9.75 | 19,500 | 1,651,212 | 0.356 |
Sinclair IS Pharma | Jean-Charles Tschudin | 17 Oct 14 | 500,000 | 28.75 | 143,750 | 3,000,117 | 0.603 |
Sopheon | Dr Bernard Al | 20 Oct 14 | 49 | 21,919.18 | 10,740 | 114 | 0.783 |
Sopheon | Stuart Silcock | 20 Oct 14 | 74 | 18,587.16 | 13,755 | 266 | 1.827 |
Sopheon | Stuart Silcock | 17 Oct 14 | 89 | 24,793.51 | 22,066 | 92 | 0.632 |
Sopheon | Barry Mence (ch) | 21 Oct 14 | 66 | 16,495.05 | 10,887 | 2,033 | 13.965 |
Sopheon | Barry Mence (ch) | 20 Oct 14 | 237 | 18,587.16 | 44,052 | 1,967 | 13.511 |
Sopheon | Barry Mence (ch) | 17 Oct 14 | 285 | 24,793.51 | 70,661 | 1,730 | 11.884 |
TR European Growth Trust | Jane Tufnell | 17 Oct 14 | 4,000 | 453.715 | 18,149 | 5,215 | 0.010 |
Wilmington | Anthony Foye (cfo) | 20 Oct 14 | 65,000 | 215 | 139,750 | 500,000 | 0.575 |
Wolseley | John Daly | 22 Oct 14 | 550 | 3,174 | 17,457 | 2,050 | 0.001 |
Xcite Energy | Andrew Fairclough (cfo) | 20 Oct 14 | 35,000 | 43.1 | 15,085 | 88,000 | 0.028 |
Sells | |||||||
Company | Director | Date | No of shares | Price (p) | Value (£) | Holding (shares) | Holding (%) |
Bioventix | Peter Harrison (ce) | 22 Oct 14 | 55,000 | 655 | 360,250 | 786,176 | 15.586 |
Bioventix | Ian Nicholson (ch) | 22 Oct 14 | 4,000 | 655 | 26,200 | 36,000 | 0.714 |
Bioventix ♥ | Peter Harrison (ce) | 22 Oct 14 | 25,000 | 655 | 163,750 | 761,176 | 15.090 |
Bioventix ♥ | Ian Nicholson (ch) | 22 Oct 14 | 4,000 | 655 | 26,200 | 32,000 | 0.634 |
Goodwin | SR Goodwin | 16 Oct 14 | 1,800 | 3,050 | 54,900 | 103,180 | 1.433 |
Goodwin | BRE Goodwin | 17 Oct 14 | 3,779 | 3,070 | 116,015 | 44,498 | 0.618 |
Goodwin | MS Goodwin | 17 Oct 14 | 3,779 | 3,070 | 116,015 | 80,373 | 1.116 |
Goodwin | SR Goodwin | 17 Oct 14 | 3,779 | 3,070 | 116,015 | 99,401 | 1.381 |
M P Evans | JD Shaw | 21 Oct 14 | 11,000 | 442 | 48,620 | 394,065 | 0.713 |
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