Share Buyback
EKF Diagnostics Holdings plc has purchased 156,000 ordinary shares at a weighted average price of 24.86 pence per share, with the highest price paid being 25.00 pence and the lowest 24.45 pence. These shares will be held in treasury, reducing the total number of voting rights to 431,098,112. As part of this buyback, 46,000 shares were acquired from entities associated with Christopher Mills, a Non-Executive Director, ensuring his indirect beneficial interest remains below 30%.
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EKF Diagnostics Holdings plc (AIM: EKF), the AIM-listed global diagnostics business, announces that it has purchased a total of 156,000 of its ordinary shares of 1p each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a weighted average price of 24.86 pence per share. The Ordinary Shares purchased will be held in treasury.
Aggregated information
| Date of purchase | 19 March 2026 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Ordinary Shares purchased | 156,000 | ||
| Highest price paid per Ordinary Share | 25.00p | ||
| Lowest price paid per Ordinary Share | 24.45p | ||
| Volume weighted average price paid | 24.86p | ||
| Transaction details | |||
| Number of Ordinary Shares purchased | Transaction price (GBp) | Time of transaction | Trading venue |
| 50,000 | 25.00p | 08:32:24 | AIMX |
| 50,000 | 24.80p | 08:53:00 | AIMX |
| 10,000 | 24.45p | 16:08:06 | AIMX |
| 46,000 | 24.86p | 16:29:53 | AIMX |
Total voting rights
Following the purchase, the Company's total issued share capital will consist of 431,963,112 Ordinary Shares, of which 865,000 Ordinary Shares are held in treasury. Therefore, the total number of Ordinary Shares carrying voting rights will be 431,098,112. 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 46,000 Ordinary Shares in total at a price of 25 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 15,333 and 30,667 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 127,126,000 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 / Patrick Weaver | ||
| 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) | |
| 24.86p | 46,000 | |
| d) | Aggregated information | |
| - Aggregated volume | n/a | |
| - Price | ||
| e) | Date of the transaction | 19 March 2026 |
| f) | Place of the transaction | London Stock Exchange, AIMX |
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