Director/PDMR Shareholding
IQE plc announced that on March 1, 2026, Executive Chair Mark Cubitt was granted 166,666 nil cost share options under the company's Long Term Incentive Plan, with these options immediately vesting but subject to a three-year holding period. This grant is part of a planned series of options, bringing the total awarded to Mr. Cubitt under this arrangement to 666,667 ordinary shares.
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IQE plc (AIM: IQE, "IQE" or the "Group"), the leading supplier of compound semiconductor wafer products and advanced material solutions to the global semiconductor industry, advises that on 1 March 2026, Mark Cubitt, Executive Chair received a grant of nil cost share options ("Options") over ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") pursuant to IQE's Long Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP").
Mark Cubitt has received immediately vested Options over 166,666 Ordinary Shares under the LTIP. This grant follows those made on 8 June 2025, 1 September 2025 and 1 December 2025 and is the final planned grant of Options that were announced on 9 June 2025. The total number of Options granted to Mark under this arrangement is 666,667. Mark's Options and resulting Ordinary Shares are subject to a three-year holding period from the date of grant.
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| a) | Name | Mr Mark Cubitt |
| 2. | Reason for the notification | |
| a) | Position / status | PDMR (Executive Chair) |
| b) | Initial notification / amendment | Initial notification |
| a) | Name | IQE plc |
| b) | Legal Entity Identifier | 213800Y33WHD3ESJJP16 |
| a) | Description of the financial instrument | Ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the Company GB0009619924 |
| b) | Nature of the transaction | Award of options |
| c) | Price(s) and volume(s) | 166,666 Ordinary Shares |
| d) | Aggregated information · Aggregated volume · Aggregated price | |
| e) | Date of the transaction(s) | 1 March 2026 |
| f) | Place of the transaction | Off-market |
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