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The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers on AIM on Wednesday. ---------- AIM - WINNERS ---------- Jangada Mines PLC, up 15% at 0.55 pence, 12-month range 0.40p-1.50p. The natural resources development company names a new chief executive that has had an ‘influential role’ in the mining industry in Brazil, where the company has interests. Paulo Guimaraes Misk will lead Jangada with immediate effect. Misk will focus on ‘accelerating the advancement of the Paranaita gold project in Brazil’s historically significant Alta Floresta - Juruena gold province’. That province is located in the Mato Grosso state of Brazil, known for its gold deposits. Jangada adds: ‘Misk has played an influential role in shaping Brazil’s mining sector through various institutional appointments.’ Misk has held a role in IBRAM, the Brazilian mining association, as well as the Vanitec international vanadium association and was formerly president of the Mining Companies of Bahia Association. Bahia is a Brazilian state that is also a major mining region. At a corporate level, Misk had held ‘senior roles’ at miner Anglo American PLC and refractory products maker RHI Magnesita NV. Jangada says Executive Chair Brian McMaster will move to non-executive chair. ---------- United Oil & Gas PLC, up 13% at 0.18 pence, 12-month range 0.065p-0.38p. The oil and gas firm says it has ‘completed a substantial body of preparatory work’ for an offshore technical programme at its 100%-owned Walton Morant licence in Jamaica. ‘This work positions United to move efficiently into the next operational phase within any optimal window,’ it adds. A ‘beach licence’, needed for nearshore survey operations, is expected shortly. ---------- AIM - LOSERS ---------- Shoe Zone PLC, down 21% at 67.17p, 12-month range 55.00p-195.00p. It says it has suffered ‘challenging trading conditions’ with consumer spend under pressure following last year’s UK budget. The retailer now expects adjusted pretax profit for the financial year ending September 27 of around £2.5 million, its forecast halved from £5.0 million. ‘We have seen less discretionary spend, with the continued impact of inflation, interest rates and higher savings rates, all of which have decreased footfall, with a resultant reduction in revenue and profit,’ Shoe Zone says. ---------- Copyright 2025 Alliance News Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
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