- Bloomsbury CEO buys 20,300 shares
- YouGov CEO buys 86,715 shares
- AO World director sells 500,000 shares
Nigel Newton, CEO and founder of Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY) has bought 20,300 shares at 488p, for a total value of £99,113 on 27 August.
Newton’s move shows a vote of confidence in the publisher of the hugely successful ‘romantasy’ author Sarah J. Maas and Harry Potter series.
On 31 July, Leslie Ann-Reed, a non-executive director at Bloomsbury also bought shares in the publishing group, several weeks after it said it was on track for full year 2026 in a trading update.
YOUGOV CEO BUYS 86,715 SHARES
Stephan Shakespeare, CEO of online research data and analytics group You Gov (YOU:AIM) has bought 86,715 shares at 346p, for a total value of £300,207 on 28 August.
Following the purchase, Shakespeare is beneficially interested in a total of 1,887,363 shares in the company, representing approximately 1.6% of the company’s issued share capital.
Additionally, Shakespeare holds 418,940 vested and unexercised options representing 0.4% of the company as of 29 August.
At the beginning of August, the company said it expected full year 2025 performance to be in line with expectations and said it remains ‘mindful of the volatile market conditions’ and ‘expects client budgets to continue to face some pressure.’
AO WORLD DIRECTOR MOVES 500,000 SHARES TO PENSION
Chris Hopkinson, non-executive director of online electrical goods retailer AO World (AO.) has sold 500,000 shares at 88p for a total value of £442,000 on 27 August.
The buyer of the shares was a pension fund of which Hopkinson is a trustee and a beneficiary.
As a result of the transaction: Hopkinson holds 21,780,429 ordinary shares representing 3.75% of the current issued share capital of the company and the Hopkinson Consultants Pension Scheme holds 2,499,999 ordinary shares representing 0.43% of the current issued share capital of the company.
