(Alliance News) - Ilika PLC on Friday said its annual guidance was unchanged as it anticipated a revenue decline due to the timing of grant funded projects, while noting progress for its Goliath programme. Read More
(Alliance News) - Ireland's trade surplus extended in September, data published by the Central Statistics Office showed on Friday. Read More
(Alliance News) - Guardian Metal Resources PLC on Friday said its loss widened during its most recent financial year, as it continues to focus on exploration and development works. Read More
(Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers among London Main Market small-caps on Friday. Read More
(Alliance News) - The following is a round-up of share dealings by London-listed company directors and managers announced on Thursday and Friday and not separately reported by Alliance News: Read More
Audioboom Group PLC - Jersey-based podcast publisher - Confirms that Showcase revenue has risen as anticipated, surging 49% higher year-on-year in October. Showcase is the group's global advertising technology-based marketplace. The group therefore now expects to report adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation profit of USD2.8 million for 2024, ahead of a company-compiled market consensus of USD2.5 million and ahead of the company's own USD1.0 million forecast in mid-October. This compares to an adjusted Ebitda loss of USD396,000 in 2023. Read More
(Alliance News) - Record PLC on Friday it delivered stable performance during the first-half, balancing a decline in profit with growth in assets under management and maintaining its dividend payouts. Read More
(Alliance News) - Solid State PLC on Friday said it now expects to report results "materially below" the current market consensus, due to a pause in expenditure for a "prominent" defence order programme. Read More
(Alliance News) - UK jets were scrambled to monitor a Russian reconnaissance aircraft flying close to UK airspace, the defence minister in London said on Friday. Read More
(Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers on AIM on Friday. Read More
Amaroq Minerals Ltd - gold and strategic mineral mine developer in southern Greenland - Signs offtake agreement with Auramet International Inc, under which Auramet will buy all of the gold produced from Amaroq's Nalunaq gold mine in Greenland. Further, Amaroq signs a deal with Metalor Technologies SA, which specialises in the evaluation and refining of precious metals at its refinery in Switzerland. Metalor will process all the dore alloy obtained from Nalunaq. Read More
Duke Capital Ltd - Guernsey-based provider of hybrid equity and debt capital to small and medium companies in Europe and North America - Raises GBP17.2 million from a placing and subscription of new shares, improved upon the minimum GBP15 million it set out to secure. Duke will issue 56.8 million new shares for the placing and 5.7 million for the subscription, both at 27.5 pence per share. Directors, including Chair Nigel Birrell and Chief Executive Officer Neil Johnson, subscribed for 2.9 million of the shares. Dukes hopes to raise up to an additional GBP3 million from a retail offering at the same price. It calls a general meeting for December 3 to approve the equity raise. Read More
RTW Biotech Opportunities Ltd - investment fund managed by RTW Investments LP that specialises in the life sciences sector - Notes Shanghai-based portfolio company Corxel Pharmaceuticals Co Ltd, formerly Ji Xing Pharmaceuticals Ltd, has had its new drug application for Aficamten accepted by China's National Medical Products Administration. Aficamten is a drug treatment for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a genetic heart condition diagnosed in around 130,000 to 330,000 patients in China, in which the heart muscle becomes abnormally thick and limits the heart's pumping function. The drug has also received breakthrough therapy designation from the US Food & Drug Administration. Corxel was founded and launched by RTW Investments in 2019. Read More
(Alliance News) - Volex PLC on Friday revealed it has made two takeover offers for TT Electronics PLC, but said TT's board has refused to engage in talks. Read More
(Alliance News) - Big energy companies TotalEnergies SE, BP PLC, Equinor ASA, and Shell PLC have jointly pledged to invest in initiatives aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7. Read More