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The following are the leading risers and fallers among London Main Market small-cap and AIM stocks on Wednesday. ---------- Main Market small-cap winners ---------- Centaur Media PLC, up 13% at 11 pence S&U PLC, up 13% at 2,150p, rises after regulator sets motor finance redress lower than expected Blencowe Resources PLC, up 8.7% at 8.15p Digital 9 Infrastructure PLC, up 8.6% at 5.515p Supply@Me Capital PLC, up 7.1% at 0.003p ---------- Main Market small-cap losers ---------- Ferrexpo PLC, down 15% at 40.875p, mulls funding options Bluebird Mining Ventures Ltd, down 14% at 0.06p Nanoco Group PLC, down 9.3% at 4.81p Symphony International Holdings Ltd, down 8.0% at 41.4 US cents Georgina Energy PLC, down 6.5% at 4.75p ---------- AIM winners ---------- IQE PLC, up 13% at 27.675p Greatland Resources Ltd, up 13% at 667.75p, gold price rises Mothercare PLC, up 12% at 1.4p B90 Holdings PLC, up 12% at 2.35p Acuity RM Group PLC, up 12% at 0.725p ---------- AIM losers ---------- Deltic Energy PLC, down 36% 2.25p, takeover offer lapses Mkango Resources Ltd, down 12% at 34p CML Microsystems PLC, down 10% at 200p, expects loss-making second half Red Rock Resources PLC, down 8.9% at 0.0205p Serica Energy PLC, down 7.1 at 273p, oil price falls ---------- Small-cap and AIM movers in focus: ---------- Deltic Energy, down 36% 2.25p, 12-month range 2.00p-7.50p. The investor, with an exploration and appraisal portfolio in the southern and central North Sea, says late Tuesday a takeover offer from Viaro has lapsed amid a regulatory hold up. The duo were waiting for the UK North Sea Transition Authority to green light a change in control of North Sea exploration licences held by Deltic. ‘Receipt of the change in control consent remains outstanding and further given that the NSTA has not provided a hard stop deadline to make its decision, the Deltic board has now concluded that it will not be received in the foreseeable future and that the ongoing delay and uncertainty has the potential to jeopardise the Deltic business,’ it adds. In June, Deltic agreed to a bid from Viaro, valuing it at around £7 million. ---------- Ferrexpo PLC, down 15% at 40.875p, 12-month range 38.00p-87.23p. The iron ore pellet producer in Ukraine says it has sufficient cash until at least June and is ‘exploring a number of potential funding options’, an equity raise among them. ‘At this stage there can be no certainty that the group will be successful in concluding such funding options. If the withholding of VAT refunds continues and funding issues are not resolved in sufficient time, this could give rise to material negative consequences for the group,’ it adds. VAT refunds outstanding are expected to have been $80 million at the end of March. In addition, it says it needs more time to finalise its 2025 accounts, not expecting them to be published by April 30. Ferrexpo suspended operating in January after Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. ---------- S&U PLC, up 13% at 2,150p, 12-month range 1,275.00p-2,458.50p. It welcomes the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s motor finance remedy plan, which it believes slashes the number of Advantage customers eligible for redress. The Solihull, England-based firm, which provides motor financing through Advantage, said the unit never offered discretionary commission arrangements commissions, which has been at the heart of the saga. DCAs, the FCA said, allowed brokers to adjust interest rates offered to customers. Karl Werner, the chief executive of S&U’s Advantage, says: ‘Advantage has never offered DCA commissions or engaged in tied arrangements. Our commission levels as a proportion of the charge for credit are generally well within those proposed for redress by the FCA and only exceed them for very small loans. Even before the final rules were published nearly 98% of Advantage customers did not qualify. We anticipate these finalised FCA proposals to halve the number of our customers that are eligible for redress under the scheme.’ ---------- Billington Holdings PLC, up 6.3% at 372.00 pence, 12-month range 233.00p-460.00p. The structural steel fabricator reports a number of new contract wins, totalling £50 million, across a ‘variety of sectors’. Customers include a client in a carbon capture facility in the north of England, a school in Sheffield, a steel bridge, and a railway museum. Also among the deal wins is a ‘a structure to create a silicon chip manufacturing facility in Bristol’ and a London data centre development. ‘The group is also seeing significant further opportunities, particularly in the energy-from-waste and the wider low-carbon power sector, as well as potential further data centre contracts, for delivery later in 2026 and 2027,’ Billington adds. ---------- Schroder Japan Trust PLC, up 6.2% at 327.00 pence, 12-month range 198.00p-374.00p. The backer of Japanese equities tracks investees higher. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index closed up 5.2% on Wednesday amid Middle East peace hopes. Among those rising was Hitachi Ltd, surging 6.0%. ---------- Copyright 2026 Alliance News Ltd. 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