Nothing presents a time to sell like a share price peak. Ryanair's (RYA) outspoken chief executive, Michael O'Leary, sold 4m shares in the budget airline worth a total of €72m (£63.5m) on 6 June. At 1,800¢ a share, the chief executive sold at just under Ryanair's all-time share price high of 1,826¢ reached on 31 May this year. Mr O'Leary is still the third-largest Ryanair shareholder, behind HSBC and Fidelity Investments, owning close to 4 per cent of shares after this disposal.
Last month, the airline announced a €600m share buyback programme, but warned that there could be "significant disruption" to flights between the UK and Europe after the UK leaves the European Union (EU). In light of this, Ryanair has started to shift its strategy away from UK-bound flights to focus on its routes in Europe, despite Mr O'Leary's shortlived claims that the airline would stop flying to the continent if the aviation industry was not given a special post-Brexit deal.
Buys | |||||||
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Company | Director | Date | No of shares | Price (p) | Value (£) | Holding (shares) | Holding (%) |
AO World | John Roberts (ceo) | 06 Jun 17 | 769,230 | 130 | 999,999 | 110,108,491 | 24.000 |
Abcam | Mara Aspinall | 05 Jun 17 | 2,700 | 978.59 | 26,422 | 6,118 | 0.003 |
Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income Trust | Dagmar Kershaw | 05 Jun 17 | 8,511 | 234.4 | 19,950 | 8,511 | 0.038 |
Alliance Trust | Christopher Samuel | 06 Jun 17 | 3,500 | 704.5 | 24,658 | 8,668 | 0.002 |
Allied Minds | Jill Smith (ceo) | 05 Jun 17 | 71,211 | 141.0554 | 100,447 | 71,211 | 0.030 |
Allied Minds | Jill Smith (ceo) | 06 Jun 17 | 10,789 | 140.1694 | 15,123 | 82,000 | 0.035 |
Allied Minds | Peter Dolan (ch) | 06 Jun 17 | 83,800 | 139.9 | 117,236 | 126,123 | 0.054 |
Arix Bioscience | Joseph Anderson (ceo) | 02 Jun 17 | 55,000 | 206.1 | 113,355 | 354,310 | 0.369 |
Arix Bioscience | Jonathan Peacock (ch) | 02 Jun 17 | 28,016 | 206.1 | 57,741 | 595,056 | 0.619 |
Arix Bioscience | James Hedley Rawlingson (cfo) | 02 Jun 17 | 26,000 | 206.1 | 53,586 | 37,484 | 0.039 |
BBA Aviation♥ | Nigel Rudd (ch) | 07 Jun 17 | 3,550 | 304.61 | 10,814 | 239,200 | 0.023 |
BBA Aviation | Nigel Rudd (ch) | 07 Jun 17 | 4,890 | 304.61 | 14,895 | 235,650 | 0.023 |
BlueRock Diamonds* | Paul Beck (ch) | 07 Jun 17 | 333,333 | 3 | 10,000 | 2,551,231 | 3.757 |
Cairn Homes | Gary Britton | 01 Jun 17 | 30,000 | 154.75 | 46,425 | 80,000 | 0.011 |
Centamin | Youssef El-Raghy (ch) | 07 Jun 17 | 250,000 | 172.1 | 430,250 | 21,100,000 | 1.831 |
Chaarat Gold | Martin Wiwen-Nilsson | 02 Jun 17 | 111,742 | 18.25 | 20,393 | 9,762,039 | 2.775 |
Chaarat Gold | Martin Wiwen-Nilsson | 02 Jun 17 | 227,996 | 18 | 41,039 | 9,650,297 | 2.743 |
Chaarat Gold | Martin Wiwen-Nilsson | 05 Jun 17 | 15,000 | 19.25 | 2,888 | 9,777,039 | 2.779 |
Cobham | David Lockwood (ceo) | 01 Jun 17 | 44,578 | 133.898 | 59,689 | 44,578 | 0.002 |
Cobham | Michael Wareing (ch) | 01 Jun 17 | 18,500 | 133.7 | 24,735 | 60,500 | 0.003 |
Dalata Hotel | Patrick McCann (ceo) | 02 Jun 17 | 40,000 | 519 | 207,600 | 954,927 | 0.522 |
Elementis | Paul Waterman (ceo) | 06 Jun 17 | 5,000 | 386 | 19,300 | 50,000 | 0.011 |
GB | Dave Wilson (fd) | 06 Jun 17 | 30,000 | 410.875 | 123,263 | 275,592 | 0.182 |
IndigoVision♥ | Martin Pengelley | 02 Jun 17 | 2,000 | 260 | 5,200 | 4,000 | 0.053 |
IndigoVision | Chris Lea (cfo) | 02 Jun 17 | 5,000 | 260 | 13,000 | 24,078 | 0.316 |
Intu Properties♥ | John Whittaker | 01 Jun 17 | 50,000 | 270.4 | 135,200 | 336,816,939 | 24.857 |
Intu Properties♥ | John Whittaker | 01 Jun 17 | 50,000 | 270.4 | 135,200 | 337,406,939 | 24.900 |
Intu Properties♥ | John Whittaker | 01 Jun 17 | 50,000 | 270.4 | 135,200 | 337,996,939 | 24.944 |
Intu Properties♥ | John Whittaker | 01 Jun 17 | 190,000 | 276.42 | 525,198 | 365,629,097 | 26.983 |
Intu Properties♥ | John Whittaker | 01 Jun 17 | 215,000 | 276.42 | 594,303 | 337,356,939 | 24.896 |
Intu Properties♥ | John Whittaker | 01 Jun 17 | 215,000 | 276.42 | 594,303 | 337,946,939 | 24.940 |
Intu Properties♥ | John Whittaker | 01 Jun 17 | 325,000 | 272.74 | 886,405 | 337,141,939 | 24.881 |
Intu Properties♥ | John Whittaker | 01 Jun 17 | 325,000 | 272.74 | 886,405 | 337,731,939 | 24.924 |
Intu Properties♥ | John Whittaker | 01 Jun 17 | 350,000 | 272.74 | 954,590 | 338,346,939 | 24.970 |
Kenmare Resources♥ | Gabriel Smith | 01 Jun 17 | 10,000 | 274.35 | 27,435 | 20,078 | 0.018 |
Learning Technologies | Harry Hill | 05 Jun 17 | 43,000 | 46 | 19,780 | 2,211,000 | 0.404 |
Metro Bank | Alastair Gunn | 05 Jun 17 | 500 | 3,833.50 | 19,168 | 69,864 | 0.087 |
Metro Bank♥ | Alastair Gunn | 05 Jun 17 | 1,000 | 3,837 | 38,370 | 70,864 | 0.088 |
Plus500 | Daniel King | 07 Jun 17 | 5,558 | 539.5 | 29,985 | 18,817 | 0.016 |
Private & Commercial Finance | David Bull (fd) | 07 Jun 17 | 66,989 | 22.89 | 15,334 | 230,568 | 0.109 |
RPC | Lynn Drummond | 07 Jun 17 | 1,215 | 822.5 | 9,993 | 2,448 | 0.001 |
RPC♥ | Jamie Pike (ch) | 07 Jun 17 | 12,787 | 782 | 99,994 | 288,328 | 0.069 |
Renewi | Colin Matthews (ch) | 01 Jun 17 | 62,500 | 90.65 | 56,656 | 200,000 | 0.025 |
Spectris | Mark Williamson (ch) | 01 Jun 17 | 15,000 | 2,652.97 | 397,945 | 16,753 | 0.014 |
Sells | |||||||
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Company | Director | Date | No of shares | Price (p) | Value (£) | Holding (shares) | Holding (%) |
B&M European Value Retail♥ | Simon Arora (ceo) | 02 Jun 17 | 60,000,000 | 363.4 | 218,040,000 | 149,880,828 | 14.988 |
Cambridge Cognition | Andrew Blackwell | 07 Jun 17 | 131,095 | 109 | 142,894 | 0 | 0.000 |
Fisher (James) & Sons♥ | Nicholas Henry (ceo) | 05 Jun 17 | 1,641 | 1,753.01 | 28,767 | 197,028 | 0.393 |
Fisher (James) & Sons♥ | Nicholas Henry (ceo) | 05 Jun 17 | 2,863 | 1,747 | 50,017 | 194,165 | 0.387 |
Fisher (James) & Sons♥ | Nicholas Henry (ceo) | 05 Jun 17 | 4,269 | 1,757 | 75,006 | 181,022 | 0.361 |
Fisher (James) & Sons♥ | Nicholas Henry (ceo) | 05 Jun 17 | 4,294 | 1,747 | 75,016 | 185,291 | 0.369 |
Fisher (James) & Sons♥ | Nicholas Henry (ceo) | 05 Jun 17 | 4,580 | 1,747 | 80,013 | 189,585 | 0.378 |
GB♥ | Dave Wilson (fd) | 06 Jun 17 | 35,867 | 382.37 | 137,145 | 239,725 | 0.158 |
GB | Richard Linford | 06 Jun 17 | 20,000 | 384.25 | 76,850 | 280,000 | 0.184 |
Hiscox♥ | Bronek Masojada (ce) | 02 Jun 17 | 50,000 | 1,236 | 618,000 | 3,162,682 | 1.107 |
Lok'n Store | Charles Peal | 06 Jun 17 | 5,000 | 450 | 22,500 | 600,000 | 2.049 |
Randgold Resources | Graham Shuttleworth (fd) | 06 Jun 17 | 7,000 | 7,697 | 538,790 | 85,408 | 0.091 |
Ryanair | Michael O'Leary (ceo) | 02 Jun 17 | 4,000,000 | 1,588 | 63,508,760 | 46,096,725 | 3.791 |
UDG Healthcare | Chris Corbin | 05 Jun 17 | 100,000 | 812.7584 | 812,758 | 1,762,681 | 0.710 |
WYG | Paul Hamer (ceo) | 07 Jun 17 | 129,235 | 101 | 130,527 | 0 | 0.000 |