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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 ---------- EnQuest PLC, up 21% at 23.05 pence, agrees reverse takeover to double production in Malaysia Aquila European Renewables PLC, up 10% at 15.60p Fuller, Smith & Turner PLC, up 9.9% at 721.00p, boosts dividend as revenue rises abrdn Property Income Trust Ltd, up 9.7% at 1.98p Defence Holdings PLC, up 9.1% at 1.38p, partners with Oracle for accelerator programme ---------- Main Market small-cap losers ---------- RC365 Holding PLC, down 29% at 2.85p, raises £500,000 via placing Contango Holdings PLC, down 13% at 0.63p BSF Enterprise PLC, down 11% at 2.00p Petra Diamonds Ltd, down 9.0% at 8.19p, business rescue practitioners take over Finsch diamond mine London BTC Co Ltd, down 7.7% at 1.68p ---------- AIM winners ---------- Mindflair PLC, up 15% at 0.58p, portfolio firm CameraMatics raises €49 million Diales PLC, up 11% at 31.00p, interim earnings climb Arc Minerals Ltd, up 11% at 0.53p Beeks Financial Cloud Group PLC, up 8.6% at 207.50p, wins three new contracts Beowulf Mining PLC, up 6.3% at 8.50p ---------- AIM losers ---------- Rockfire Resources PLC, down 14% at 0.13p Strategic Minerals PLC, down 13% at 3.90p Thor Energy PLC, down 13% at 0.58p Litigation Capital Management Ltd, down 12% at 2.33p Marechale Capital PLC, down 11% at 6.75p ---------- Small-cap and AIM movers in focus: ---------- EnQuest PLC, up 21% at 23.05 pence, 12-month range 9.72p-23.70p. The oil and gas producer agrees to buy interests in four offshore production-sharing contracts in Malaysia via a reverse takeover, which would see its production more than double in size. The firm’s local subsidiary will enter three separate farm-out agreements with Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd and E&P Malaysia Venture Sdn Bhd. The maximum total consideration is $833 million, of which $554 million is payable on completion, which is expected on December 31. Production for the enlarged group would rise to over 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, more than double 2025 production. ---------- Fuller, Smith & Turner PLC, up 9.9% at 721.00p, 12-month range 544.00p-760.00p. The London-based pubs and hotels operator says it will extend its share buyback amid higher annual sales. Pretax profit falls 13% to £29.5 million in the 52 weeks ended March 28, but adjusted pretax profit climbs 28% to £34.6 million. Adjusted pretax profit excludes ‘separately disclosed items’ which amounted to an expense of £5.1 million in the period, compared to a £6.8 million credit the year before. The items include profit on the sale of properties, and impairments on the value of assets. Revenue increases by 5.7% to £397.8 million. The firm proposes a final dividend of 13.35p per ’A’ and ’C’ share, up 8.1% from 12.35p a year ago, taking the total payout to 21.20p per share, up 7.3% on the prior year’s 19.76p. It also plans an additional one million ’A’ share buyback to start when the current programme completes within the next few weeks. This would total £7.2 million at the current share price. ---------- Defence Holdings PLC, up 9.1% at 1.38p, 12-month range 0.30p-4.90p. London-based defence technology group says it has partnered with Austin, Texas-based cloud technology company Oracle Corp. Oracle will serve the ‘hyperscale cloud partner’ to Defence’s accelerator programme for defence and security technology firms. Defence says the partnership will focus ‘on agentic AI, cognitive warfare, critical infrastructure protection, and autonomous systems’. ---------- Petra Diamonds Ltd, down 9.0% at 8.19p, 12-month range 7.74p-22.67p. The South Africa and Tanzania-focused diamond miner says business rescue practitioners have taken over the Finsch diamond mine. The practitioners will now carry out the legal requirements of the business rescue process, Petra says. In agreement with the practitioners, Finsch has started suspending production activities this week. ‘This is an interim step pending the completion of the Finsch specific business plan by the business rescue practitioners and until the way forward has been agreed between the business rescue practitioners and the creditors,’ the firm says. ---------- Beeks Financial Cloud Group PLC, up 8.6% at 207.50p, 12-month range 140.00p-272.00p. The Renfrew, Scotland-based cloud computing and connectivity provider wins three contracts across its Analytics, Proximity Cloud and Private Cloud offerings, worth around £1.7 million in total. Revenue recognition from the Analytics and Proximity Cloud contracts is expected to start this month, supporting the firm’s performance in the current financial year. Revenue from the remaining contract will be recognised in the next financial year. ‘These contract wins demonstrate continued demand across our product portfolio and reflect the breadth of opportunities we are seeing across infrastructure, connectivity, analytics and AI-powered insight,’ says Chief Executive Officer Gordon McArthur. ---------- Copyright 2026 Alliance News Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
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