Share Buyback & Extension of Buyback Programme
EKF Diagnostics Holdings PLC announced the purchase of 919,331 ordinary shares at a weighted average price of 28 pence per share, which will be held in treasury. The company also declared an extension to its share buyback program, with intentions to purchase additional ordinary shares up to £1.0 million, also to be held in treasury. Following the purchase, the company's total issued share capital will consist of 449,093,790 Ordinary Shares, of which 3,575,045 Ordinary Shares are held in treasury. The total number of Ordinary Shares carrying voting rights will be 445,518,745. As part of the buyback, EKF acquired 272,000 Ordinary Shares at 28 pence per share from Harwood as investment manager to Oryx and NASCIT.
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EKF Diagnostics Holdings plc (AIM: EKF), the AIM-listed global diagnostics business, announces that it has purchased a total of 919,331 of its ordinary shares of 1p each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a weighted average price of 28 pence per share. The Ordinary Shares purchased will be held in treasury.
The Company today announces an extension to the additional share buyback programme announced on 21 May 2025 and intends to conduct additional on-market purchases of Ordinary Shares of up to a further c.£1.0m, pursuant to the authorities obtained at the Company's last annual general meeting held on 20 May 2025. The Ordinary Shares will be held in treasury.
Aggregated information
| Date of purchase | 20 October 2025 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Ordinary Shares purchased | 919,331 | ||
| Highest price paid per Ordinary Share | 28p | ||
| Lowest price paid per Ordinary Share | 28p | ||
| Volume weighted average price paid | 28p | ||
| Transaction details | |||
| Number of Ordinary Shares purchased | Transaction price (GBp) | Time of transaction | Trading venue |
| 647,331 | 28p | 13:19:22 | AIMX |
| 272,000 | 28p | 13:26:05 | AIMX |
Total voting rights
Following the purchase, the Company's total issued share capital will consist of 449,093,790 Ordinary Shares, of which 3,575,045 Ordinary Shares are held in treasury. Therefore, the total number of Ordinary Shares carrying voting rights will be 445,518,745. This figure may be used by shareholders 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 Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
PDMR dealing
As part of the buyback and within the above aggregate purchase, EKF acquired 272,000 Ordinary Shares in total at a price of 28 pence per Ordinary Share from Harwood as investment manager to Oryx International Growth Fund Limited ("Oryx") and North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust PLC ("NASCIT"). EKF acquired 90,667 and 181,333 Ordinary Shares from Oryx and NASCIT respectively. Harwood has facilitated this transaction solely in order to ensure that the aggregate indirect beneficial interest of Mr. Mills remains at approximately the same level and in any event does not exceed 30% of the prevailing total voting rights in the Company following any repurchases.
Following the above sale of Ordinary Shares by Oryx and NASCIT to the Company, Mr. Mills' aggregate indirect interest in the Company is 131,378,000 Ordinary Shares.
Additional disclosures relating to this PDMR dealing are detailed below.
The person responsible for arranging the release of this Announcement
on behalf of the Company is Julian Baines, Executive Chair.
| EKF Diagnostics Holdings plc | www.ekfdiagnostics.com | |
| Julian Baines, Executive Chair | via Walbrook PR | |
| Gavin Jones, Chief Executive Officer | ||
| Singer Capital Markets (Nominated Adviser & Broker) | Tel: +44 (0)20 7496 3000 | |
| Phil Davies / Oliver Platts | ||
| Walbrook PR Limited | Tel: +44 (0)20 7933 8780 or ekf@walbrookpr.com | |
| Paul McManus / Alice Woodings | Mob: +44 (0)7980 541 893 / +44 (0) 7407 804 654 | |
| a) | Name | Christopher Mills |
| 2 | Reason for the notification | |
| a) | Position/status | Non-Executive Director |
| b) | Initial notification /Amendment | Initial Notification |
| a) | Name | EKF Diagnostics Holdings plc |
| b) | LEI | 213800DXTF3EAUK1AR05 |
| a) | Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument | Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each |
| Identification code | GB0031509804 | |
| b) | Nature of the transaction | Disposal of Ordinary Shares |
| c) | Price(s) and volume(s) | |
| Price(s) | Volume(s) | |
| 28p | 272,000 | |
| d) | Aggregated information | |
| - Aggregated volume | n/a | |
| - Price | ||
| e) | Date of the transaction | 20 October 2025 |
| f) | Place of the transaction | London Stock Exchange, AIMX |
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