Director Share Dealings
UK-listed companies disclose various director and senior manager share transactions and options.
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UK-listed companies disclosed a range of director and senior-manager share dealings. Purchases included Venture Life CFO Daniel Wells (38,717 shares), Liontrust CFO Vinay Abrol (10,000), SysGroup director Mike Fletcher (77,623), The Property Franchise Group CEO Gareth Samples (11,000), Midwich CFO Adam Councell (74,586 through a joint account), Strategic Minerals executive Mark Burnett (395,000), and a person associated with Vp director Ross Paterson (5,438); TruFin also disclosed a purchase by Mr van den Bergh, leaving him with 694,934 shares, or about 1.29%. NatWest reported a trustee purchase for an employee-share-plan participant, and MicroSalt directors and PDMRs conditionally subscribed for 1,079,466 shares at 14p each, raising about £151,000 subject to shareholder approval and admission. Chesnara reported a 19,493-share allotment to a director’s associated person following option exercise; Bango granted options to directors and employees, including performance conditions for executive directors, while Anglo American disclosed directors’ fee-related share purchases and a Sharesave option grant and Croda reported vesting of a previously granted award. Weir reported nominee-account transfers that left the parties’ combined holding unchanged, and Galliford Try reported restricted-share releases and sales to meet tax liabilities; DF Capital and IG Group also filed director-trading notices without transaction details. These regulatory disclosures do not, by themselves, indicate broader changes in company strategy or performance.
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Venture Life CFO Daniel Wells paid 64.548 pence per share for his 38,717-share purchase; afterward, he held 38,717 shares, equal to about 0.03% of the company’s issued share capital.
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Anglo American’s non-executive directors bought shares using after-tax fees for services provided from 1 July to 30 September 2026. The company also granted options through its all-employee Sharesave plan, which lets employees save monthly and later exercise options at a fixed discounted price.
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Croda’s disclosed award was Buy-Out Award 6, granted on 2 April 2025 under the Croda Buy-Out Share Plan 2025.
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NatWest said the trustee purchase took place on 28 September 2026 on the London Stock Exchange, on behalf of a PDMR participating in the company’s Buy As You Earn Share Plan.
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