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The following are the leading risers and fallers among London Main Market small-cap and AIM stocks on Thursday. ---------- Main Market small-cap winners ---------- Halfords Group PLC, up 15% at 207.5 pence, beats profit forecast and ups dividend Petra Diamonds Ltd, up 11% at 8.29p GSTechnologies Ltd, up 7.1% at 0.38p Symphony International Holdings Ltd, up 6.7% at 38.4 euro cents Pinewood Technologies Group PLC, up 5.8% at 274p ---------- Main Market small-cap losers ---------- Hamak Strategy Ltd, down 10% at 0.68p Gabelli Merchant Partners PLC, down 9.9% at 775 euro cents Defence Holdings PLC, down 9.5% at 1.2p Amala Foods PLC, down 8.6% at 0.08p Ecofin US Renewables Infrastructure Trust PLC, down 8.3% at 15.4 US cents ---------- AIM winners ---------- Mercantile Ports & Logistics Ltd, up 24% at 1.8 pence, new hearing scheduled for KTPL case Huddled Group PLC, up 20% at 0.6p Advanced Medical Solutions Group PLC, up 16% at 278.75p, agrees to £715 million takeover offer Fletcher King PLC, up 13% at 65p Proteome Sciences PLC, up 12% at 1.69p ---------- AIM losers ---------- CPP Group PLC, down 43% at 34p Ingenta PLC, down 23% at 65p, expects lower earnings for 2026 Mothercare PLC, down 21% at 0.98p Premier African Minerals Ltd, down 19% at 0.016p Blue Star Capital PLC, down 18% at 5.75p ---------- Small-cap and AIM movers in focus: ---------- Halfords Group PLC, up 15% at 207.5 pence, 12-month range 127.6p-207.5p. The Redditch, England-based motoring and cycling products retailer’s underlying pretax profit for the 52 weeks to March 27 rises 4.1% to £45.4 million from £43.6 million a year earlier. Excluding a change in accounting treatment for amortisation of acquired intangibles, underlying pretax profit increases by more than 8% to £41.5 million from £38.4 million. Revenue for the 53-week period to April 3 increases 5.0% to £1.80 billion from £1.72 billion. On a comparable 52-week basis, like-for-like sales grow 4.8%, with Retail up 4.1% and Autocentres, excluding Avayler, up 5.8%. Halfords declares a final dividend of 6.0 pence per share, up from 5.8p, lifting the total annual payout by 2.3% to 9.0p from 8.8p. Expects financial 2027 underlying pretax profit to be around the top end of the upgraded consensus range of around £49.0 million from £45.3 million. Also appoints Jock Lennox to join the board as a non-executive director on September 1 and succeed Keith Williams as chair following the annual general meeting on September 10. Lennox is currently chair of Johnson Service Group PLC and Clarion Housing Group. ---------- Mercantile Ports & Logistics Ltd, up 24% at 1.8 pence, 12-month range 0.3p-2.6p. The port operator says its application challenging the decision of India’s Committee of Creditors, which rejected the promoters’ Section 12A proposal and approved the resolution plan relating to Karanja Terminal & Logistics Private Ltd, is scheduled to be heard by the National Company Law Tribunal on July 1. Says it plans to highlight ‘one of the most significant developments to emerge from the lenders’ and Prudent ARC’s own filings,’ which ‘reveal that a competing proposal [from Prudent ARC] had already been submitted and was being actively considered even before [its one-time settlement] was terminated. ’The chronology now emerging raises a fundamental question: was MPL ever intended to be allowed to complete the sanctioned settlement process[?]...Had these facts been known and disclosed at the time, including during proceedings before the Delhi High Court and other proceedings, the company has been advised that it is likely that the outcome would have been in the company’s favour,‘ Mercantile says. ---------- Advanced Medical Solutions Group PLC, up 16% at 278.75 pence, 12-month range 191p-278.75p. The Cheshire, England-based surgical dressings maker agrees to an all-cash takeover offer from Minnesota-based adhesives manufacturer HB Fuller Co. The offer of 285 pence per share in cash values the equity of AIM-listed AMS at £659 million and gives an enterprise value, including debt, of £715 million. Earlier in May, AMS shares had taken a hit after private equity firm TA Associates (UK) LLP said it didn’t intend to make a takeover offer of its own, having approached AMS about a possible deal in April. Chair Grahame Cook said the deal ’delivers attractive and certain value in cash to AMS shareholders‘. ---------- Ingenta PLC, down 23% at 65 pence, 12-month range 59.5p-132.5p. The provider of software and services to the publishing and media industries has won new contracts worth over £2 million since the start of its current year, and claims an encouraging pipeline of further opportunities across core markets. Consequently, it expects to report increased revenue for 2026. However, due to previously announced planned investment ’in building our sales and marketing resources,‘ it expects earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation to be ’a little lower‘ than those for 2025. Looking further ahead, it also notes that some longer-term customers on its legacy platforms ’have been seeking to move to global whole-enterprise software platform providers,‘ and some of the larger clients have requested to switch to shorter term contracts. This ’reduces our visibility over future revenue streams, and introduces a greater risk level to 2027 revenues and beyond.‘ ---------- Copyright 2026 Alliance News Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
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