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The following is a round-up of earnings and trading updates by London-listed companies, issued on Wednesday, Tuesday and Monday and not separately reported by Alliance News: ---------- BlackRock American Income Trust PLC - investor in US value equities - Reports results for the six months ended April 30 on Wednesday, during which it completed its first full year under its new systematic active equity mandate. Says its net asset value total return for the year to April 30 was plus 31.7%, outperforming a plus 26.7% total return from its benchmark, the Russell 1000 Value Index. NAV total return for the six months ended April 30 was plus 12.3%, improved from 11.5% the year before and outperforming the benchmark’s plus 10.2% return. Net assets total £142.6 million at April 30, up 10% from £129.5 million at October 31, ‘reflecting both strong investment performance and accretive share issuance.’ NAV per share is 250.25 pence, up 9.0% from 229.56p. Dividends for the half-year period total 7.30p per share, comprising a first interim dividend of 3.55p and a second of 3.75p, up from 5.03p the year before. ‘The combination of the company’s differentiated, technology enabled investment approach, its diversified exposure to US value stocks beyond the US mega cap growth names, and its enhanced dividend policy has resonated strongly with investors,’ comments Chair David Barron. ‘The move to a premium rating has allowed the company to grow through accretive share issuance, and net assets have risen materially over the period and further still since the period end.’ ---------- DSW Capital PLC - Warrington, England-based professional services provider via the Dow Schofield Watts and DR Solicitors brands - Provides £360,000 in equity funding to support licensee Dow Schofield Watts Business Planning LLP’s acquisition of Integer Advisory Ltd. DSW will have a 20% equity stake in DSW BP and will continue to receive licence fee income from the enlarged company. ‘The transaction is a great demonstration of thegroup’s diversification strategy in action: Integer broadens the network’s advisory capabilities and brings additional revenues from more resilient markets, as we continue to expand the group beyond traditional M&A activity,’ Chief Executive Officer Shru Morris says on Wednesday. ‘The transaction also demonstrates our commitment and willingness to back our licensees in the growth and development of their businesses, making DSW an attractive platform for ambitious professionals seeking autonomy. With increasing government focus on infrastructure, housing, and public sector transformation, we are confident that the enlarged business is well positioned to capitalise on attractive long-term growth opportunities.’ ---------- Quantum Blockchain Technologies PLC - London-based blockchain and cryptocurrency group - Reports on Monday its final results for 2025, remaining non-revenue-generating. Administrative expenses decrease to €2.95 million from €2.98 million. Pretax loss widens to €3.2 million from €3.0 million. ‘During the period, the company made significant progress with Method C’s AI Oracle, including the filing of a new patent application covering the implementation of binary decision trees, the successful use of the AI Oracle in live bitcoin mining tests on current blockchain blocks, and the demonstration of an approximate 30% mining advantage in FPGA-based live testing,’ comments Chair Francesco Gardin. ‘A particularly important development...was the advancement of the software-only implementation of Method C, which the board considers potentially to be one of the most commercially significant milestones achieved by the company to date...This approach has the potential to substantially simplify deployment, accelerate commercial adoption and significantly broaden the addressable market for the company’s technology.’ Company believes it is ‘significantly closer to demonstrating the practical and commercial applicability of its technologies in real-world bitcoin mining operations,’ Gardin adds. ---------- Acuity RM Group PLC - London-based risk management company - Also on Monday, reports ‘stable’ revenue of £2.10 million for 2025, slightly down from £2.13 million in 2024, and comprising 86% subscriptions and 14% from consultancy services. Pretax loss narrows to £423,000 from £1.3 million. Administrative expenses fall 33% to £2.0 million from £3.0 million. ‘2025 was a year of disciplined execution and meaningful strategic progress,’ says CEO David Rajakovich, adding: ‘Importantly, we entered the new year with £1.9 million of contracted future revenue, since grown to £2.1 million by the end of the first quarter, giving us strong near-term visibility...Looking ahead, we are particularly excited about our AI-native Risk OS software, which will represent where cyber risk management is going rather than where it is now. We’re determined to capture the opportunity to lead a growing cyber GRC market segment.’ ---------- Pulsar Helium Inc - US and Greenland-focused helium company - Says on Tuesday that wholly-owned subsidiary Keewaydin Resources Inc enters a binding letter of agreement and limited notice to proceed with ‘an arm’s length third party vendor,’ to reserve a helium liquefaction plant and related equipment package for potential deployment in Minnesota. Says the vendor, whose name Pulsar can only reveal at a later date, is an established U.S.-based industrial gas equipment company with a substantial operating history and significant experience in the design, fabrication and delivery of cryogenic and gas processing systems. Pulsar calls the vendor’s experience and US presence ‘important advantages’. The deal ‘represents a transformational milestone in Pulsar’s plan to advance its flagship Topaz helium project from discovery and appraisal into production, processing and liquefaction,’ Pulsar says, adding that the deal ‘meaningfully de-risks the path to first production by securing the critical midstream infrastructure required to process, purify and liquefy helium.’ The proposed plant configuration includes carbon dioxide capture capacity of approximately 300 tonnes per day, or approximately 109,500 tonnes per year on a 365-day operating basis, and helium liquefaction capacity of approximately 940 litres per hour of liquid helium. Says this equates to approximately 22,560 litres per day or approximately 8.2 million litres per year of liquid helium, and that on a gaseous helium equivalent basis this represents approximately 0.6 million cubic feet per day or approximately 219 million cubic feet per year. ---------- Copyright 2026 Alliance News Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
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