Director/PDMR Shareholding
Capricorn Energy PLC announced that on April 13, 2026, it awarded free ordinary shares valued at up to £3,600 each to eligible employees under its Share Incentive Plan, with Chief Operating Officer Geoff Probert and Commercial Director Nathan Piper each receiving 1,100 shares. Following these awards, Geoff Probert beneficially holds 4,828 shares and Nathan Piper holds 13,334 shares, with significant outstanding entitlements under long-term incentive and deferred bonus plans for both individuals. The awards were based on a share price of £3.27 from April 10, 2026, and the shares will be held by the SIP Trustee for five years.
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- Award of Free Shares under the Company's 2010 Share Incentive Plan
Capricorn announces that, on 13 April 2026, it made its annual awards of up to £3,600 worth of ordinary shares of 799/122 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") to eligible employees under the "Free Share" element of the Company's HMRC approved all-employee Share Incentive Plan established in April 2010 (the "SIP"). No consideration was paid for the grant of these awards.
Details of the PDMRs who participated in the award, having complied with the eligibility criteria in terms of the rules of the SIP, are as follows:
| PDMR | Number of Free Shares Awarded |
|---|---|
| Geoff Probert, Chief Operating Officer | 1,100 |
| Nathan Piper, Commercial Director | 1,100 |
The above awards were based on an Ordinary Share price of £3.27, being the closing price of a Capricorn share on 10 April 2026. The Ordinary Shares awarded to participants in the SIP were existing shares previously purchased in the market. In accordance with the rules of the SIP, its Trustee will normally hold these Ordinary Shares on behalf of the relevant individuals throughout a holding period of five years from the date of award.
Summary of current holdings of PDMRs
Following this announcement, the PDMRs' beneficial interests in the Shares of the Company are as follows:
| PDMR | Current Shares | % Issued Share Capital | Outstanding entitlements under 2017 LTIP and Deferred Bonus Plan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awards still subject to performance conditions | Awards not subject to performance conditions * | |||
| Geoff Probert | 4,828 | 0.007 | 748,049 | 41,679 |
| Nathan Piper | 13,334 | 0.019 | 406,918 | 8,891 |
* This column includes (i) all outstanding awards under the 2017 LTIP that have vested following the expiry of the applicable performance period; and (ii) all outstanding awards under the Company's Deferred Bonus Plan, the vesting of which is not subject to performance condition satisfaction.
| 1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated | |||||
| a) | Name | Geoff Probert | ||||
| 2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
| a) | Position/status | Chief Operating Officer | ||||
| b) | Initial notification/ Amendment | Initial Notification | ||||
| a) | Name | Capricorn Energy PLC | ||||
| b) | LEI | 213800ZJEUQ8ZOC9AL24 | ||||
| a) | Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument | Ordinary shares of 799/122 pence each | ||||
| Identification code | GB00BRJ7R218 | |||||
| b) | Nature of the transaction | Free shares awarded under the Company's all-employee Share Incentive Plan (2010) | ||||
| c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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| d) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price | - Not applicable | ||||
| e) | Date of the transaction | 2026-04-13 | ||||
| f) | Place of the transaction | London Stock Exchange | ||||
| 1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated | |||||
| a) | Name | Nathan Piper | ||||
| 2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
| a) | Position/status | Commercial Director | ||||
| b) | Initial notification/ Amendment | Initial Notification | ||||
| a) | Name | Capricorn Energy PLC | ||||
| b) | LEI | 213800ZJEUQ8ZOC9AL24 | ||||
| a) | Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument | Ordinary shares of 799/122 pence each | ||||
| Identification code | GB00BRJ7R218 | |||||
| b) | Nature of the transaction | Free shares awarded under the Company's all-employee Share Incentive Plan (2010) | ||||
| c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
| ||||
| d) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price | - Not applicable | ||||
| e) | Date of the transaction | 2026-04-13 | ||||
| f) | Place of the transaction | London Stock Exchange |
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