UK small-cap RNS · 5 Jun 2026

Every announcement of UK small & mid caps under £2bn. The ones that started or moved a situation are marked – a click opens it.

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17:50

Staffline Group STAF £45m
Director/PDMR Shareholding Director dealing
10:01

Hercules Plc HERC £30m
Half-year Results Results
Record revenue of £59.2m (+8%) but underlying EBITDA fell to £1.7m from £2.6m and underlying EPS to 0.67p from 2.11p. Project delays, higher NIC, audit and integration costs hit profit, cash fell to £2.7m and the interim dividend was dropped.

Transformational contract / build-out £59.2m · 196% of mcapoutlook mixed +0.0% on the day

Moved: Power and energy sector expansion: Lyons Power Services acquired October 2025 → Advantage NRG integrated; 70% of Lyons acquired · FY25 audit delay and suspension: Accounts published with qualified audit opinion; suspension lifting → Accounts published; extended audit costs hit H1
09:00

Clean Power Hydrogen CPH2 £12m
Operational Update
The damaged MFE220 cannot be repaired and the Board is abandoning FAT3, ending the Q3 2026 site acceptance and first-revenue timetable and leaving the manufacturing business without a path to revenue.

Turnaround plan with targets outlook negative, lowered +0.0% on the day

Moved: MFE220 1MW testing and on-site operation: Final FAT incident; unit damaged, operations suspended → Unit beyond repair; FAT3 abandoned (closed) · Liquidity and funding shortfall: Raise paused; shares suspended → Material uncertainty over continuing operations · Insurance and customer contract impact: Under review → Insurers assessing; cause under investigation
07:01

Defence Holdings PLC ALRT £16m
Defence Holdings Confirms Publication of UK Government Transparency Notice Relating to Proposed Ministry of Defence Contract
First disclosed MoD contract value for the company: a roughly £226,000 three-month test of an intelligence and effects platform. It is small and not yet awarded, but is a first government engagement after a long pre-revenue period.

Transformational contract / build-out £0.2m · 1% of mcapfirst in 7 months +19.0% on the day

Moved: new: MoD testing contract – Transparency Notice published; award not yet completed
07:00

Evoke EVOK £190m
Recommended all-share acquisition of evoke plc
The evoke board recommends a firm all-share offer worth 52p a share, replacing the earlier possible 50p. It ends the strategic review with a bid, though the consideration is mostly Intralot shares.

Upgrade / downgrade cycle £243.1m · 128% of mcap +15.0% on the day

Moved: Strategic review and potential sale: Talks continuing; deadline extended to 8 June → Recommended firm all-share offer announced · UK gambling duty increases: Mitigation under way; impairments booked → Mitigation under way; bid cited as response
07:00

Bodycote BOY £1,541m
Rule 2.8 Announcement
Apollo drops its conditional 885p cash proposal, so the takeover premium shareholders were hoping for is gone and no firm offer exists; Apollo is barred for six months unless an exception applies.

Takeover target next step −13.1% on the day

Moved: Possible offer for the company: Talks ongoing; no firm offer; outlook reconfirmed → Apollo Rule 2.8 statement: no offer (closed)
07:00

STV Group STVG £46m
Trading Update Trading update
Q1 TAR beat guidance (-4% vs -5%) and Q2 is expected up c.10% on the World Cup, but the company does not raise guidance. H2 is cautious and the Studios H1 loss is c.£3m, so this is no upgrade.

Turnaround plan with targets in lineoutlook mixedfirst since Oct 2023 −4.5% on the day

Moved: Cost savings programme: £4.1m of £8m delivered; on track → On track for £8m run rate · STV Radio launch: Launched Jan-26; attracting advertisers → Launched; advertisers and listeners responding well
07:00

Raspberry PI Holdings (WI) RPI £1,059m
Trading Update Trading update
Raspberry Pi (LSE: RPI), a leader in low-cost, high-performance computing, is pleased to report that trading in the first half of the year (six months ending 30 June 2026) has been strong, with profitability materially ahead of the comparable period in FY …

Upgrade / downgrade cycle ahead of expectations +27.6% on the day
07:00

Resolute Mining Limited RSG £1,137m
Syama Operational Update
Q2 Syama output is cut to about 30koz from 40-45koz, and full-year Syama output is now expected near the lower end of the 195-210koz range, after a Q1 that was in line with plan.

Upgrade / downgrade cycle below expectationsoutlook mixed, loweredfirst since Oct 2023 −5.6% on the day

Moved: Mali supply chain and operating risk: Explosives fix in place; sulphide output hit in H2 → Security disruption hits Syama Q2 output · Syama Sulphide Conversion Project: Commissioning in Q2; planned shutdown to tie in → Commissioning; shutdown deferred to mid-June · Doropo project development: FID approved; ground clearance started April 2026 → Under construction, on schedule