Ian 'Tink' Taylor, co-founder and operating chief of dotDigital (DOTD), recently netted close to £1.1m from the sale of 2.5m shares in the digital marketing software group. The disposal - which represented 6 per cent of his holding - lowered his stake to 12.5 per cent.
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Mr Taylor was joined by dotDigital's finance director, non-executive chairman and non-executive director. The trio divested a total of 1.1m shares for close to £500,000, citing significant interest in the company's equity among new and existing institutional investors. They expect the disposals to strengthen the group's shareholder base over the coming years.
Broker FinnCap expects EPS to rise 7 per cent to 1.72p in the year to June 2017.
| Buys | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Director | Date | No of shares | Price (p) | Value (£) | Holding (shares) | Holding (%) |
| Aberdeen Smaller Companies High Income Trust | Barry Rose | 03 Mar 16 | 2,500 | 194 | 4,844 | 5,000 | 0.023 |
| Atkins (WS) | Thomas Leppert | 08 Mar 16 | 2,676 | 1,311 | 35,089 | 2,676 | 0.003 |
| BBA Aviation♥ | Sir Nigel Rudd (ch) | 04 Mar 16 | 1,500 | 202 | 3,037 | 221,450 | 0.021 |
| BBA Aviation | Sir Nigel Rudd (ch) | 04 Mar 16 | 1,750 | 202 | 3,543 | 209,950 | 0.020 |
| BBA Aviation♥ | Sir Nigel Rudd (ch) | 04 Mar 16 | 10,000 | 202 | 20,248 | 219,950 | 0.021 |
| Brammer♥ | Charles Irving-Swift | 09 Mar 16 | 8,000 | 167 | 13,345 | 15,000 | 0.012 |
| City Merchants High Yield Trust | Philip Taylor | 08 Mar 16 | 1,178 | 172 | 2,029 | 182,657 | 0.210 |
| DX Group♥ | Ian Pain (fd) | 09 Mar 16 | 1,500,000 | 17 | 255,000 | 2,432,001 | 1.213 |
| DX Group | Petar Cvetkovic (ce) | 09 Mar 16 | 2,935,000 | 17 | 498,950 | 5,529,593 | 2.758 |
| Equiniti | Guy Wakeley (ce) | 08 Mar 16 | 25,000 | 162 | 40,500 | 1,285,003 | 0.428 |
| Equiniti | John Stier (fd) | 08 Mar 16 | 25,000 | 162 | 40,500 | 772,945 | 0.258 |
| Exova♥ | Ian El-Mokadem (ce) | 08 Mar 16 | 50,000 | 146 | 72,990 | 2,050,000 | 0.819 |
| Foxtons | Ian Barlow | 08 Mar 16 | 31,032 | 161 | 49,962 | 117,987 | 0.043 |
| Galileo Resources* | Richard Wollenberg | 07 Mar 16 | 500,000 | 1 | 5,000 | 3,300,000 | 1.703 |
| Galileo Resources* | Colin Bird (ch & ce) | 07 Mar 16 | 5,000,000 | 1 | 50,000 | 48,185,000 | 24.869 |
| Genus | Lykele van der Broek | 09 Mar 16 | 3,750 | 1,458 | 54,690 | 3,750 | 0.006 |
| GlobalData | Bernard Cragg (ch) | 07 Mar 16 | 250,000 | 227 | 566,250 | 390,000 | 0.381 |
| HgCapital Trust | Richard Brooman | 07 Mar 16 | 250 | 1,073 | 2,684 | 2,090 | 0.006 |
| HgCapital Trust | Peter Dunscombe | 07 Mar 16 | 500 | 1,060 | 5,300 | 6,000 | 0.016 |
| HgCapital Trust | Peter Dunscombe | 07 Mar 16 | 1,500 | 1,058 | 15,869 | 5,500 | 0.015 |
| HgCapital Trust | Roger Mountford (ch) | 07 Mar 16 | 2,008 | 1,060 | 21,280 | 17,375 | 0.047 |
| Image Scan Holdings | William Mawer (ch & ce) | 07 Mar 16 | 402,010 | 2 | 8,000 | 3,738,655 | 2.977 |
| Invesco Perpetual Enhanced Income | Michael Lombardi | 04 Mar 16 | 200,000 | 68 | 135,500 | 350,000 | 0.283 |
| ITV | Sir Peter Bazalgette | 08 Mar 16 | 150,430 | 232 | 348,245 | 164,115 | 0.004 |
| Jardine Lloyd Thompson♥ | Dominic Burke (ce) | 03 Mar 16 | 10,000 | 831 | 83,070 | 305,576 | 0.140 |
| Jersey Electricity | Alan Bryce | 08 Mar 16 | 4,500 | 475 | 21,375 | 4,500 | 0.039 |
| Kainos | Christopher Cowan | 07 Mar 16 | 10,000 | 199 | 19,885 | 31,582 | 0.027 |
| Majestic Wine | Gregg Hodder | 08 Mar 16 | 10,000 | 433 | 43,300 | 10,000 | 0.014 |
| Mattioli Woods♥ | Ian Mattioli (ce) | 07 Mar 16 | 306 | 571 | 1,747 | 3,234,009 | 12.911 |
| Mercantile Investment Trust (The) | Jeremy Tigue | 07 Mar 16 | 849 | 1,596 | 13,547 | 10,247 | 0.011 |
| Metal Tiger | Paul Johnson (ce) | 09 Mar 16 | 250,000 | 1 | 3,200 | 9,250,000 | 2.089 |
| Metal Tiger♥ | Paul Johnson (ce) | 07 Mar 16 | 500,000 | 1 | 6,250 | 9,000,000 | 2.033 |
| Metal Tiger | Paul Johnson (ce) | 04 Mar 16 | 705,000 | 1 | 8,249 | 8,500,000 | 1.920 |
| Non-Standard Finance | Heather McGregor | 03 Mar 16 | 6,385 | 73 | 4,655 | 43,325 | 0.015 |
| Premaitha Health | Adam Reynolds | 09 Mar 16 | 500,000 | 8 | 40,000 | 3,301,137 | 1.447 |
| Premaitha Health | Stephen Little (ce) | 09 Mar 16 | 700,000 | 8 | 56,000 | 3,472,727 | 1.522 |
| Regus | Dominik de Daniel (fd) | 09 Mar 16 | 179,777 | 294 | 528,544 | 330,889 | 0.036 |
| RPS | Robert Miller-Bakewell | 04 Mar 16 | 5,000 | 189 | 9,463 | 10,000 | 0.004 |
| Spectris♥ | Ulf Quellmann | 04 Mar 16 | 500 | 1,812 | 9,060 | 1,500 | 0.001 |
| St Modwen Properties | Richard Mully | 04 Mar 16 | 2,176 | 305 | 6,637 | 42,176 | 0.019 |
| St Modwen Properties | Richard Mully | 07 Mar 16 | 7,824 | 305 | 23,918 | 50,000 | 0.023 |
| St Modwen Properties | Richard Mully | 07 Mar 16 | 10,000 | 300 | 30,000 | 60,000 | 0.027 |
| STV | Anne Marie Cannon | 08 Mar 16 | 9,042 | 440 | 39,785 | 9,042 | 0.023 |
| Tristel | Francisco Soler (ch) | 09 Mar 16 | 20,000 | 113 | 22,600 | 10,854,988 | 25.744 |
| TwentyFour Income Fund | Trevor Ash (ch) | 08 Mar 16 | 19,495 | 103 | 20,000 | 49,495 | 0.016 |
| TwentyFour Income Fund | Ian Burns | 08 Mar 16 | 29,242 | 103 | 29,999 | 29,242 | 0.009 |
| Walker Crips♥ | D Hetherton | 04 Mar 16 | 23,299 | 49 | 11,347 | 738,351 | 1.934 |
| WPP | Roberto Quarta (ch) | 07 Mar 16 | 2,800 | 1,558 | 43,624 | 21,800 | 0.002 |
| Wynnstay | Philip Kirkham | 09 Mar 16 | 1,000 | 488 | 4,880 | 1,000 | 0.005 |
| Wynnstay | James McCarthy (ch) | 09 Mar 16 | 5,000 | 487 | 24,350 | 5,000 | 0.026 |
* placing/tender/open offer ♥ spouse/connected party Ω tender offer | |||||||
| Sells | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Director | Date | No of shares | Price (p) | Value (£) | Holding (shares) | Holding (%) |
| BGEO | Irakli Burdiladze | 03 Mar 16 | 4,299 | 1,905 | 81,883 | 54,000 | 0.141 |
| Dignity | Richard Portman | 09 Mar 16 | 1,350 | 2,324 | 31,374 | 92,280 | 0.187 |
| dotDigital | Frank Beechinor-Collins (ch) | 07 Mar 16 | 100,000 | 42 | 42,290 | 199,194 | 0.068 |
| dotDigital | Milan Patel (cfo) | 07 Mar 16 | 400,000 | 42 | 169,160 | 1,575,927 | 0.537 |
| dotDigital | Peter Simmonds | 07 Mar 16 | 600,000 | 42 | 253,740 | 3,991,470 | 1.360 |
| dotDigital | Ian Taylor | 07 Mar 16 | 2,500,000 | 42 | 1,057,250 | 36,776,667 | 12.529 |
| Majestic Wine | Justin Apthorp | 04 Mar 16 | 74,000 | 438 | 324,120 | 300,000 | 0.424 |
| Majestic Wine | Justin Apthorp | 04 Mar 16 | 171,673 | 438 | 751,928 | 374,000 | 0.529 |
| Provident Financial | Peter Crook (ce) | 04 Mar 16 | 98,165 | 3,265 | 3,205,074 | 492,711 | 0.335 |
| SABMiller♥ | A J Clark (ce) | 04 Mar 16 | 90,000 | 4,206 | 3,785,400 | 262,960 | 0.016 |
* placing/tender/open offer ♥ spouse/connected party Ω tender offer | |||||||
