Shareholders generally don't like how rights issues force them to either stump up cash or see their existing holding diluted. But in the case of high-flying RPC (RPC), which offered an attractive 460p issue price to help fund its major purchase of bottle-top and screw-cap maker Global Closure Systems, buying more shares on the cheap shouldn't be frowned at.
Directors of the rigid plastic packaging manufacturer certainly seemed willing to back the next phase of the group's growth strategy. Five members of the board bought a combined 48,155 shares, with chief executive Pim Vervaat responsible for nearly half of these purchases.
Given RPC's track record for delivering on investments, together with the high-margin, quality and complementary nature of the business being acquired, it's little surprise that take-up was high. The group's investments in products and expansion should enable it continue taking full advantage of a flourishing packaging market. Management's decision to put its own money into the funding shows that confidence for success is high.
Buys | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Company | Director | Date | No of shares | Price (p) | Value (£) | Holding (shares) | Holding (%) |
3i Infrastructure ♥ | Richard Laing (ch) | 18 Jan 16 | 20,000 | 170.89 | 34,178 | 20,000 | 0.003 |
AB Dynamics | Tim Rogers | 18 Jan 16 | 3,400 | 287 | 9,758 | 271,601 | 1.567 |
Aberdeen Asset Management | Richard Mully | 15 Jan 16 | 10,000 | 223.9 | 22,390 | 70,000 | 0.005 |
Aberdeen Asset Management | Simon Troughton | 15 Jan 16 | 10,000 | 224.2 | 22,420 | 70,000 | 0.005 |
Adamas Finance Asia | Conor MacNamara | 15 Jan 16 | 195,000 | 63.5 | 123,825 | 195,000 | 0.102 |
Aquatic Foods | Jonathan Quirk | 14 Jan 16 | 25,000 | 22.5 | 5,625 | 75,000 | 0.066 |
Berkeley Group Holdings (The) | Diana Brightmore-Armour | 19 Jan 16 | 1,000 | 3,464 | 34,640 | 1,000 | 0.001 |
Big Yellow ♥ | Richard Cotton | 14 Jan 16 | 5,000 | 751 | 37,550 | 73,485 | 0.047 |
Braveheart Investment ♥ ★ | Trevor Brown (ce) | 15 Jan 16 | 265,701 | 7.5 | 19,928 | 7,805,934 | 28.852 |
Caledonia Mining Corp | David Henderson | 18 Jan 16 | 17,200 | 53.33 | 9,172 | 17,200 | 0.033 |
Caledonia Mining Corp | James Johnstone | 20 Jan 16 | 12,000 | 52.02 | 6,243 | 28,000 | 0.054 |
Cropper (James) | MAJ Cropper (ch) | 20 Jan 16 | 1,850 | 642.5 | 11,886 | 1,229,593 | 13.328 |
Cropper (James) ♥ | MAJ Cropper (ch) | 20 Jan 16 | 2,000 | 642.5 | 12,850 | 1,227,743 | 13.308 |
Curtis Banks | Jules Hydleman | 15 Jan 16 | 12,500 | 320 | 40,000 | 51,973 | 0.097 |
De La Rue | Dr. Sabri Challah | 14 Jan 16 | 3,400 | 439.75 | 14,952 | 3,400 | 0.003 |
Debenhams | Matthew Smith (cfo) | 14 Jan 16 | 25,000 | 77.29 | 19,321 | 53,000 | 0.004 |
Debenhams | Sir Ian Cheshire | 14 Jan 16 | 400,000 | 78.3 | 313,200 | 400,000 | 0.033 |
Dillistone | Dr. Mike Love (ch) | 20 Jan 16 | 60,000 | 69.5 | 41,700 | 989,754 | 5.032 |
Evgen Pharma | John Bradshaw (fd) | 18 Jan 16 | 40,000 | 22.25 | 8,900 | 40,000 | 0.055 |
Evgen Pharma | Barry Clare (ch) | 18 Jan 16 | 40,000 | 22.25 | 8,900 | 940,108 | 1.285 |
Evgen Pharma | Dr. Stephen Franklin (ce) | 18 Jan 16 | 56,000 | 22.25 | 12,460 | 1,375,200 | 1.880 |
Fidelity China Special Situations Ω | The Hon P Pleydell-Bouverie | 20 Jan 16 | 12,700 | 119.8 | 15,215 | 71,924 | 0.013 |
Finsbury Growth & Income Trust | David Hunt | 19 Jan 16 | 3,000 | 555.38 | 16,661 | 35,000 | 0.027 |
Finsbury Growth & Income Ω | Neil Collins | 18 Jan 16 | 2,000 | 544.68 | 10,894 | 50,842 | 0.040 |
Gulfsands Petroleum * | Andrew Morris | 14 Jan 16 | 240,800 | 4 | 9,632 | 320,800 | 0.068 |
Gulfsands Petroleum * | Joe Darby | 14 Jan 16 | 75,250 | 4 | 3,010 | 100,250 | 0.021 |
Gulfsands Petroleum * | James Ede-Golightly | 14 Jan 16 | 60,200 | 4 | 2,408 | 80,200 | 0.017 |
Gulfsands Petroleum * | Andrew West | 14 Jan 16 | 421,833 | 4 | 16,873 | 561,977 | 0.120 |
Henderson High Income Trust | Margaret Littlejohns | 18 Jan 16 | 6,000 | 167.86 | 10,072 | 20,000 | 0.018 |
Lowland Investment Co | Peter Troughton (ch) | 18 Jan 16 | 1,000 | 1,160 | 11,600 | 20,660 | 0.076 |
M&C Saatchi | Lord Dobbs | 14 Jan 16 | 4,850 | 310 | 15,035 | 4,850 | 0.007 |
Menhaden Capital | Sir Ian Cheshire (ch) | 14 Jan 16 | 20,000 | 66.3 | 13,260 | 45,000 | 0.056 |
North Atlantic Smaller Companies | Christopher Mills (ce) | 18 Jan 16 | 45,000 | 2,275 | 1,023,750 | 3,619,000 | 25.059 |
Private & Commercial Finance Ω | David Bull (fd) | 14 Jan 16 | 165,038 | 23 | 37,959 | 165,038 | 0.107 |
Rosslyn Data Technologies | Hugh Cox | 15 Jan 16 | 30,000 | 13.5 | 4,050 | 9,695,090 | 12.796 |
Rotala | Dr. John Gunn (ch) | 20 Jan 16 | 113,000 | 76 | 85,880 | 9,169,348 | 24.158 |
Rotala | Simon Dunn (ce) | 20 Jan 16 | 5,013 | 75.55 | 3,787 | 1,413,170 | 3.723 |
Rotala | Simon Dunn (ce) | 18 Jan 16 | 3,331 | 76 | 2,532 | 1,408,157 | 3.693 |
RPC * | Simon Kesterton (fd) | 20 Jan 16 | 800 | 460 | 3,680 | 4,800 | 0.002 |
RPC * | James Pike (ch) | 20 Jan 16 | 22,858 | 460 | 105,147 | 311,524 | 0.103 |
RPC * | Martin Towers | 20 Jan 16 | 4,333 | 460 | 19,932 | 25,999 | 0.009 |
RPC * | Dr. Petrus Vervaat (ce) | 20 Jan 16 | 20,000 | 460 | 92,000 | 240,000 | 0.079 |
Scottish Investment Trust (The) | MIck Brewis | 19 Jan 16 | 10,000 | 566 | 56,600 | 10,000 | 0.010 |
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust | Dr. Paola Subacchi | 15 Jan 16 | 6,077 | 249.5 | 15,162 | 14,805 | 0.001 |
Ted Baker Ω | Lindsay Page (fd) | 18 Jan 16 | 190 | 2,637 | 5,010 | 81,229 | 0.185 |
ULS Technology | Geoff Wicks | 15 Jan 16 | 22,000 | 45 | 9,900 | 52,000 | 0.080 |
ULS Technology | Peter Opperman (ch) | 15 Jan 16 | 45,000 | 45 | 20,250 | 2,704,625 | 4.178 |
Verona Pharma | Dr. David Ebsworth (ch) | 20 Jan 16 | 400,000 | 2.5 | 10,000 | 4,599,774 | 0.455 |
Witan Pacific Investment Trust | Andrew Robson | 14 Jan 16 | 4,000 | 222.75 | 8,910 | 12,000 | 0.018 |
Sells | |||||||
Company | Director | Date | No of shares | Price (p) | Value (£) | Holding (shares) | Holding (%) |
Boot (Henry) | John Sutcliffe (ce) | 14 Jan 16 | 5,000 | 215.25 | 10,763 | 505,445 | 0.383 |
Braveheart Investment ★ | Andrew Burton | 15 Jan 16 | 265,701 | 7.5 | 19,928 | 659,460 | 2.437 |
Cropper (James) | Patrick Willink (ch) | 20 Jan 16 | 2,000 | 642.5 | 12,850 | 50,210 | 0.544 |
First Derivatives | David Anderson | 19 Jan 16 | 5,000 | 1,541 | 77,050 | 120,000 | 0.502 |
Inspired Energy | Bob Holt (ch) | 15 Jan 16 | 5,000,000 | 13.25 | 662,500 | 2,500,000 | 0.528 |
Inspired Energy | Janet Thornton | 15 Jan 16 | 11,600,017 | 13.25 | 1,537,002 | 52,764,983 | 11.147 |
Inspired Energy | Matthew Thornton | 15 Jan 16 | 11,600,018 | 13.25 | 1,537,002 | 52,764,983 | 11.147 |
LivaNova | Daniel Moore (ch) | 15 Jan 16 | 1,000 | 5,264 | 52,640 | 67,437 | 0.138 |
PJSC Lukoil † | Ivan Pictet | 14 Jan 16 | 65,000 | 2,837.83 | 1,844,587 | 8,000 | 0.001 |
PJSC Lukoil † ♥ | Ivan Pictet | 14 Jan 16 | 8,000 | 2,848 | 227,840 | 0 | 0.000 |
ULS Technology | Nigel Hoath | 15 Jan 16 | 10,000,000 | 45 | 4,500,000 | 7,628,414 | 11.785 |
*Placing/tender/open offer ♥Spouse/connected party ΩIsa/Sipp/Trust †Depositary receipts ★Inter-company deal |