Issue of Equity and Dividend Timetable Amendment

RNS Number : 1981W

First Derivatives PLC

10 November 2017

 

10 November 2017

First Derivatives plc

("FD" or the "Company")

Issue of Equity and Dividend Timetable Amendment

FD (AIM: FDP.L, ESM: FDP.I) announces the issue and allotment of 44,100 new ordinary shares of 0.5p each in the Company (the "Ordinary Shares") pursuant to the exercise of share options by certain employees.

Application has been made for these new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM and ESM and it is expected that admission will take place on 16 November 2017. The new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the existing shares of the Company. Following this allotment, the total issued share capital of the Company will increase to 25,333,969 ordinary shares.

Interim Dividend Timetable Amendment

The Interim Results announcement released at 7:00am on Tuesday, 7 November 2017 (RNS no. 7177V) stated that the interim dividend would be paid to shareholders on the register on 15 November 2017. The interim dividend will in fact be paid to shareholders on the register on 17 November 2017.

The relevant information in the Interim Results announcement regarding the interim dividend is restated correctly below.

Chairman's Statement

"The Board has declared payment of an interim dividend of 7.0p per share (H1 2017: 6.0p per share). This will be paid on 6 December 2017 to those shareholders on the register on 17 November 2017."

Note 3 to the Interim Results

"3            Dividends

An Interim Dividend of 7.0p per share will be made for the six months to 31 August 2017. This will be paid to shareholders on 6 December 2017 to shareholders on the register on 17 November 2017. The shares will be marked Ex-Dividend on 16 November 2017."

All other details in relation to the interim dividend and the rest of the Interim Results announcement remain unchanged.

Enquiries

For further information please contact:

First Derivatives plc Brian Conlon, Chief Executive Officer Graham Ferguson, Chief Financial Officer Ian Mitchell, Head of Investor Relations	[phone] www.firstderivatives.com
Investec Bank plc (Nominated Adviser and Broker) Andrew Pinder  Carlton Nelson Sebastian Lawrence	[phone]
Goodbody (ESM Adviser and Broker) Linda Hickey Finbarr Griffin	[phone]

 For further information, please visit www.firstderivatives.com

 

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