StatPro Group PLC PDMR Shareholding/Transfer of shares from Treasury (6897L)

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RNS Number : 6897L

StatPro Group PLC

20 April 2018

20 April 2018

StatPro Group PLC

PDMR Shareholding/Transfer of shares from Treasury

StatPro Group plc, (AIM:SOG, "StatPro", "the Company"), the AIM listed provider of cloud-based portfolio analysis and asset pricing services for the global asset management industry, announces that the Company has transferred 40,000 ordinary shares of 1 penny each ("Ordinary Shares") out of treasury to satisfy an exercise of awards pursuant to the Company's Performance Share Plan.

Following this transfer, the Company has 68,714,292 Ordinary Shares in issue, including 3,058,713 Ordinary Shares held in treasury. The Company will therefore have 65,655,579 Ordinary Shares each with voting rights, and that figure may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

 
 1    Details of the person discharging managerial 
       responsibilities / person closely associated 
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 a)   Name                 Andrew 
                             Peddar 
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 2    Reason for the notification 
       Exercise of PSP Awards and partial sale 
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 a)   Position/status       Andrew Peddar   PDMR 
---  ------------------  ------------------------------------------------ 
 b)   Initial             Initial 
       notification 
       /Amendment 
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 3    Details of the issuer, emission allowance 
       market participant, auction platform, auctioneer 
       or auction monitor 
---  -------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Name                StatPro Group PLC 
---  ------------------  ------------------------------------------------ 
 b)   LEI                 213800IQAQ19RDQT9I51 
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 4    Details of the transaction(s): section 
       to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; 
       (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each 
       date; and (iv) each place where transactions 
       have been conducted 
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 a)   Description         Ordinary shares of 1p each 
       of the financial 
       instrument, 
       type of             GB0006300213 
       instrument 
 
       Identification 
       code 
---  ------------------  ------------------------------------------------ 
 b)   Nature of           Exercise of share awards under 
       the transaction     PSP Scheme                              Awards 
                            Director/PDMR             exercised 
                            Andrew 
                             Peddar          PDMR        40,000 
 
 
 
 
                           Sale of shares                          Shares 
                            Director/PDMR              sold 
                            Andrew 
                             Peddar          PDMR    17,050 
---  ------------------  ------------------------------------------------ 
 c)   Price(s)             Exercise of share awards under 
       and volume(s)        PSP Scheme Price(s)    Volume(s) 
                            ----------  ---------- 
                             n/a         40,000 
                            ----------  ---------- 
 
 
                            Sale of shares: 
                             Price(s)   Volume(s) 
                            ---------  ---------- 
                             157.5p     17,050 
                            ---------  ---------- 
---  ------------------  ------------------------------------------------ 
 d)   Aggregated 
       information 
                            n/a 
 
       - Aggregated 
       volume 
 
 
       - Price 
---  ------------------  ------------------------------------------------ 
 e)   Date of             20 April 2018 
       the transaction 
---  ------------------  ------------------------------------------------ 
 f)   Place of            XLON 
       the transaction 
---  ------------------  ------------------------------------------------ 
 

The above notifications are made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation.

Enquiries:

 
 StatPro Group plc 
 Justin Wheatley, Chief         [phone] 
  Executive                      9876 
 Andrew Fabian, Finance 
  Director 
 
 Panmure Gordon - Nomad 
  and Broker 
 Corporate Finance - Freddy     [phone] 
  Crossley / Fabien Holler       2500 
 Corporate Broking - Tom 
  Salvesen / James Stearns 
 
 Instinctif Partners 
 Adrian Duffield / Chris        [phone] 
  Birt                           2020 
 

About StatPro

StatPro is a global provider of award winning portfolio analytics solutions for the investment community. The Group's cloud-based platform provides vital analysis of portfolio performance, attribution, risk and compliance. This multi-asset class analytics platform helps StatPro's clients increase assets under management, improve client service, meet tough regulations and reduce costs.

The Group's integrated and global data coverage includes over 3.2 million securities such as equities, bonds, mutual funds, FX rates, futures, options, OTCs, sector classifications and much else besides. StatPro also covers most families of benchmarks including MSCI, FTSE, Russell, NASDAQ and the open source Freedom Index.

The Group has operations in Europe, North America, South Africa, and Australia, with hundreds of clients in 39 countries around the world.

StatPro has grown its Annualised Recurring Revenue from less than GBP1 million in 1999 to around GBP53 million at the end of December 2017. Over 80% of recurring revenues are generated outside the UK. StatPro Group plc shares are listed on AIM.

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