Director/PDMR Shareholding
Victrex plc announced that Chief Executive Officer Jakob Sigurdsson exercised share options on 12 December 2025, acquiring 29,297 ordinary shares at a price of £6.482174 per share. He sold 13,819 shares to cover costs and retained the remaining 15,478 shares. This transaction involved nil cost options granted under the Victrex 2019 Long Term Incentive Plan and the 2017 Deferred Bonus Plan, including dividend equivalents.
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Victrex plc (the Company) is an innovative world leader in high performance polymer solutions, delivering sustainable products which enable environmental and societal benefit in multiple end-markets. The Company announces that Jakob Sigurdsson (Chief Executive Officer), has exercised share options over ordinary shares in the Company on 12 December 2025 under the Victrex 2019 Long Term Incentive Plan and the 2017 Deferred Bonus Plan.
| 1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | |
| a) | Name | Jakob Sigurdsson |
| 2 | Reason for the notification | |
| a) | Position/status | Chief Executive Officer |
| b) | Initial notification /Amendment | Initial Notification |
| a) | Name | Victrex plc |
| b) | LEI | 213800UYNPHAUNHPXL67 |
| a) | Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument | Ordinary Shares of 1p each |
| Identification code | GB0009292243 | |
| b) | Nature of the transaction | Exercise of 29,297 nil cost options, comprising of 394 granted 12 February 2020 and 4,770 granted 12 December 2022 under the Victrex plc 2009 Long Term Incentive Plan and 17,904 nil cost options granted 12 December 2022 under the 2017 Deferred Bonus Plan. The options comprised of 6,229 shares being made up of a dividend equivalent amounts across the grants. Sold sufficient shares 13,819 arising from the exercise to cover costs, and retained the balance of 15,478 as shares. |
| c) | Price(s) and volume(s) | |
| Price(s) | Volume(s) | |
| £6.482174 | 29,297 | |
| d) | Aggregated information | n/a single transaction |
| - Aggregated volume | ||
| - Price | ||
| e) | Date of the transaction | 2025-12-12 |
| f) | Place of the transaction | London Stock Exchange |
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