Substantial shareholdings
The Company has 142,330,164 Ordinary Shares in issue. No Ordinary Shares are held in treasury.
This number represents the total voting rights in the Company and may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they can determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority’s Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
In accordance with AIM Rule 26, in so far as the Company is aware the percentage of the Company's issued share capital that is not in public hands is 56.7%.
The interests of our top ten shareholders in the issued ordinary share capital of the Company, which have been notified as at 19 December 2024, were as follows:
|
Ordinary shares of 10p each |
Percentage of ordinary shares |
|
|
Henry Spain Investment Services |
35,365 |
24.9% |
|
HRnetGroup Limited |
25,367 |
17.1% |
|
Schroder Investment Management |
23,824 |
16.0% |
|
Gresham House Asset Management |
17,014 |
11.4% |
|
Hargreaves Lansdown, stockbrokers |
6,809 |
4.6% |
|
Interactive Investor |
4,831 |
3.3% |
|
UBS, London |
4,184 |
2.8% |
|
AJ Bell, stockbrokers |
2,702 |
1.8% |
|
Barclays Smart Investor |
1,874 |
1.3% |
|
HSDL, stockbrokers |
1,821 |
1.2% |
|
|
123,791 |
84.4% |
As at 14 June 2024, the following directors have beneficial holdings in the Company’s issued share capital:
|
Albert Ellis |
997,296 shares |
|
Daniel Quint |
761,490 shares |
|
Catherine Lynch |
10,000 shares |
|
Tom Spain |
1,675,000 shares |
|
Amanda Aldridge |
80,000 shares |
Albert Ellis and Daniel Quint have interests in 4,272,705 and 3,438,083 respectively for options for ordinary shares, awarded under the Company’s 2021 long term incentive plan in May 2022, February 2023 and January 2024, and SAYE scheme 2022. The other directors have no current interests in share options or the SAYE plans.