22nd Sep 2026 10:11
(Alliance News) - The following are the leading risers and fallers among FTSE 100 and 250 index constituents on Tuesday.
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FTSE 100 winners
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Kingfisher PLC, up 9.1% at 333.65p, raises guidance
Smiths Group PLC, up 4.8% at 2,714.50p, kick off new share buyback
JD Sports Fashion PLC, up 2.5% at 75.81p
Coca-Cola HBC AG, up 2.3% at 4,378.00p
Informa PLC, up 1.8% at 912.40p
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FTSE 100 losers
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Admiral Group PLC, down 1.5% at 3,780.00p
BAE Systems PLC, down 1.3% at 2,023.50p
Aviva PLC, down 1.3% at 711.80p
Fresnillo PLC, down 1.2% at 2,949.50p, precious metal prices weaken
Land Securities Group PLC, down 1.0% at 631.00p
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FTSE 250 winners
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Atalaya Mining Copper SA, up 5.1% at 1,066.50p, copper price surges
Trustpilot Group PLC, up 4.5% at 222.10p
Mony Group PLC, up 3.2% at 202.00p
Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC, up 2.8% at 176.95p
Wickes Group PLC, up 2.4% at 200.50p, positive read-across from Kingfisher results
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FTSE 250 losers
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Goodwin PLC, down 5.3% at 14,060.00p
TP ICAP Group PLC, down 3.0% at 334.80p
Harbour Energy PLC, down 2.3% at 265.00p
Ceres Power Holdings PLC, down 2.1% at 416.20p
Galliford Try Holdings PLC, down 2.0% at 694.00p
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FTSE 100 & 250 movers in focus:
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Kingfisher PLC, up 9.1% at 333.65p, 12-month range 249.20p-372.30p. The do-it-yourself retailer raises annual guidance, despite a "mixed" consumer environment. Kingfisher, which owns brands such as B&Q, Screwfix and Castorama, says pretax profit surged 18% to GBP400 million in the six months ended July 31 from GBP338 million the year prior. Adjusted pretax profit grows 9.9% to GBP404 million from GBP368 million, beating GBP372 million market consensus cited by RBC Capital Markets. Kingfisher now sees adjusted pretax profit for the full year between GBP595 million and GBP635 million, its guidance range lifted from GBP565 million to GBP625 million previously.
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Smiths Group, up 4.8% at 2,714.50p, 12-month range 2,088.00p-2,756.00p. The engineering firm starts a new GBP1.5 billion share buyback on Tuesday, having just completed GBP1.5 billion in buybacks. Pretax profit in the year that ended July 31 is GBP245 million, down 23% from GBP317 million a year prior, though revenue increases 2.1% to GBP1.94 billion from GBP1.90 billion. It's been a year of change at Smiths Group, with the industrial engineering company selling its Detection and Interconnect businesses. "The portfolio reshaping has enabled enhanced returns to shareholders, with GBP2.6 billion returned in the past five years," it says. "Following the completion of the FY2025 GBP500 million share buyback programme in December, a further GBP1 billion related to the proceeds from the sale of Smiths Interconnect has now been returned. A further GBP1.5 billion is still to be executed in relation to the Smiths Detection proceeds and is expected to be substantially completed by end of calendar year 2027."
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Whitbread PLC, up 1.3% at 2,356.00p, 12-month range 2,098.00p-3,302.00p. An activist investor has demanded a vote to get a seat on the Whitbread board, saying the hotel company has "materially underperformed its peers and the wider market". Corvex Management, which owns some 7% of Whitbread, wants to install its partner James Gemmel to the board. "Whitbread has materially underperformed its peers and the wider market over multiple time horizons and is trading at a significant discount to its peers. In Corvex's view, the board's recent strategy review failed to address Whitbread's underlying challenges and was poorly received by the market," Corvex says. "Corvex is not seeking control of Whitbread and is not demanding a sale of the company. It is asking for a single seat on the board, to work in a collegiate and constructive manner with no predetermined agenda, to benchmark the company's current strategy against every credible alternative to establish a pathway that maximises value for all." Back in May, Corvex urged the Premier Inn owner to put itself up for sale. In a damning letter to Whitbread management, the New York-based activist hedge fund called the status quo "untenable" and said that the need to pursue "meaningful strategic and structural reform had become unignorable".
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Target Healthcare REIT PLC, up 1.4% at 114.40p, 12-month range 92.00p-117.00p. Target Healthcare REIT hails its best annual performance since its stock market float, and the care home investor expects to raise its dividend for the new financial year. EPRA net tangible assets per share at the June 30 year-end amounted to 122.1 pence, up 6.4% from 114.8p a year before. It reports a total accounting return, which also factors in dividends paid, of 12%, beating financial 2025's 9.3%. "With a total accounting return of 12.0%, these results represent the group's best annual financial performance since its IPO in 2013. The inflation-linked rental uplifts embedded in the leases, combined with stable valuation yields over the year, drove a notable improvement in like-for-like capital value. Returns were further enhanced by the net impact of the group's investment activity during the year," Chair Alison Fyfe says. Target Healthcare REIT's annual dividend is 6.032p per share, up 2.5% from 5.884p. For financial 2027, its dividend target is 6.212p, which would represent a 3.0% hike. Fyfe says: "Whilst the investment market remains competitive, the care home market itself is structurally undersupplied. Patient investing, particularly in competitive markets, remains key both in terms of delivering sustainable financial returns and in the construction of a balanced portfolio carefully weighted to those factors and characteristics that are expected to ensure that the properties remain attractive to investors, tenant operators and residents over the long-term."
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Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, up 0.4% at 1,560.50p, 12-month range 1,015.74p-1,569.50p. Shares are up in a positive read across as US tech stocks surge on Monday. SMIT holding Meta Platform Inc jumped 11% amid optimism surrounding its Muse AI agent.
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By Eric Cunha, Alliance News news editor
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