13th Nov 2025 12:49
13 November 2025
Kainos Group plc
("Kainos" or the "Company")
Director / PDMR shareholdings
The Company announces that on 13 November 2025, share awards (the "Awards") approved by the Board of Directors of the Company under the Company's HM Revenue and Customs approved Share Incentive Plan scheme (the "SIP Awards"), in the form of free ordinary shares, contingent on length of service of 0.5 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") were provided to all eligible U.K. based employees of the Company, including the executive directors of the Company, or its subsidiaries.
Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging
managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them.
(A19 Market Abuse Regulation)
1. | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | |||||
a. | Name | Brendan Mooney | ||||
2. | Reason for the notification | |||||
a. | Position/status | CEO | ||||
b. | Initial notification /Amendment | Initial | ||||
3. | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
a. | Name | Kainos Group plc | ||||
b. | LEI | 213800H2PQMIF3OVZY47 | ||||
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 | |||||
a. | Description of the Financial instrument/ type of instrument Identification code | Ordinary Shares of £0.005 each
KNOS | ||||
b. | Nature of the transaction | SIP Share Awards 2025 | ||||
c. | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d. | Aggregated information · Aggregated volume · Price |
N/A | ||||
e. | Date of the transaction | 13-11-25 | ||||
f. | Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue | ||||
1. | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | |||||
a. | Name | Richard McCann | ||||
2. | Reason for the notification | |||||
a. | Position/status | CFO/COO | ||||
b. | Initial notification /Amendment | Initial | ||||
3. | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
a. | Name | Kainos Group plc | ||||
b. | LEI | 213800H2PQMIF3OVZY47 | ||||
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 | |||||
a. | Description of the Financial instrument/ type of instrument Identification code | Ordinary Shares of £0.005 each
KNOS | ||||
b. | Nature of the transaction | SIP Share Awards 2025 | ||||
c. | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d. | Aggregated information · Aggregated volume · Price |
N/A | ||||
e. | Date of the transaction | 13-11-25 | ||||
f. | Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue | ||||
1. | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | |||||
a. | Name | Malachy Smith | ||||
2. | Reason for the notification | |||||
a. | Position/status | Divisional Director | ||||
b. | Initial notification /Amendment | Initial | ||||
3. | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
a. | Name | Kainos Group plc | ||||
b. | LEI | 213800H2PQMIF3OVZY47 | ||||
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 | |||||
a. | Description of the Financial instrument/ type of instrument Identification code | Ordinary Shares of £0.005 each
KNOS | ||||
b. | Nature of the transaction | SIP Share Awards 2025 | ||||
c. | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d. | Aggregated information · Aggregated volume · Price |
N/A | ||||
e. | Date of the transaction | 13-11-25 | ||||
f. | Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue | ||||
1. | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | |||||
a. | Name | Daniel Kemp | ||||
2. | Reason for the notification | |||||
a. | Position/status | Divisional Director | ||||
b. | Initial notification /Amendment | Initial | ||||
3. | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
a. | Name | Kainos Group plc | ||||
b. | LEI | 213800H2PQMIF3OVZY47 | ||||
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 | |||||
a. | Description of the Financial instrument/ type of instrument Identification code | Ordinary Shares of £0.005 each
KNOS | ||||
b. | Nature of the transaction | SIP Share Awards 2025 | ||||
c. | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d. | Aggregated information · Aggregated volume · Price |
N/A | ||||
e. | Date of the transaction | 13-11-25 | ||||
f. | Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue | ||||
Ends
For further information, please contact:
Kainos via FTI Consulting LLP Brendan Mooney, Chief Executive Officer Richard McCann, Chief Financial Officer
Investec Bank plc +44 20 7597 5970 Patrick Robb / Nick Prowting / Arnav Kapoor
FTI Consulting LLP +44 20 3727 1000 Dwight Burden / Kwaku Aning
About Kainos Group plc Kainos Group plc is a UK-headquartered provider of sophisticated IT services to major public sector, commercial and healthcare customers and a developer of software applications. Our shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: KNOS).Our expertise spans three divisions: Digital Services, Workday Services, and Workday Products.Digital ServicesOur Digital Services customers face a range of business challenges, including the need to improve their customer service, reduce costs and increase productivity. We help them to solve these problems by developing and supporting custom digital service platforms. Our solutions enable customers and their users to work smarter, faster and better, while ensuring the platforms are secure, accessible and cost effective.Workday ServicesWe are a respected partner to Workday Inc., providing a comprehensive range of services to support customers deploying Workday's Finance, HR and Planning products. Our experience in complex deployments means we are trusted to launch, test, expand and support Workday systems.Workday ProductsWe have developed proprietary software products that complement Workday by enhancing our customers' system security and compliance and improving their document generation and storage. Over 600 global customers use one or more of our products, with adoption growing rapidly.Our peopleOur people are central to our success. We employ more than 3,100 people in 18 countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Find out moreYou can discover more about us at www.kainos.com.
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