Grant of Share Options

RNS Number : 4612M

Oxford Metrics PLC

28 July 2017

 

28 July 2017

Oxford Metrics plc

("Oxford Metrics" or the "Company")

Grant of Share Options

Oxford Metrics plc (LSE: OMG), the international software company servicing government, life sciences, entertainment and engineering markets, announces that it has granted share options ("Options") to certain of its executive directors and PDMRs to subscribe for up to 1,200,000 ordinary shares of 0.25p each in the capital of the Company:

	Number of Options granted	Total Number of Options held following this grant	Total Number of Options held as % of issued share capital
Catherine Robertson, Group Executive Director	400,000	400,000	0.3%
Rachel Hudson	170,000	170,000	0.2%
Nicholas Smee	230,000	230,000	0.2%
Imogen Moorhouse	400,000	400,000	0.3%

Prior to these grants the Company had a total of 3,985,723 share options outstanding representing 3.2% of the existing issued share capital of the Company.

All Options are exercisable at a price of 59.1p, being the 30 day average closing price, with half vesting after a period of two years, a quarter vesting after a period of three years and the final quarter vesting after a period of four years. The options are exercisable over the period of 10 years from the date of grant.

The information set out below is provided in accordance with the requirements of Article 19(3) of the EU Market Abuse Regulation No 596/2014.

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name	Catherine Robertson
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Group Executive Director
b)	Initial notification/Amendment	Initial notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Oxford Metrics plc
b)	LEI	N/A
4	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code	Share Options over Ordinary Shares of 0.25p each ISIN for Oxford Metrics plc Ordinary Shares GB0030312788
b)	Nature of the transaction	Grant of share options
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) 59.1p 400,000
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	n/a
e)	Date of the transaction	28 July 2017
f)	Place of the transaction	Outside a trading venue

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name	Rachel Hudson
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	PDMR
b)	Initial notification/Amendment	Initial notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Oxford Metrics plc
b)	LEI	N/A
4	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code	Share Options over Ordinary Shares of 0.25p each ISIN for Oxford Metrics plc Ordinary Shares GB0030312788
b)	Nature of the transaction	Grant of share options
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) 59.1p 170,000
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	n/a
e)	Date of the transaction	28 July 2017
f)	Place of the transaction	Outside a trading venue

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name	Nicholas Smee
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	PDMR
b)	Initial notification/Amendment	Initial notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Oxford Metrics plc
b)	LEI	N/A
4	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code	Share Options over Ordinary Shares of 0.25p each ISIN for Oxford Metrics plc Ordinary Shares GB0030312788
b)	Nature of the transaction	Grant of share options
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) 59.1p 230,000
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	n/a
e)	Date of the transaction	28 July 2017
f)	Place of the transaction	Outside a trading venue

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name	Imogen Moorhouse
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	PDMR
b)	Initial notification/Amendment	Initial notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Oxford Metrics plc
b)	LEI	N/A
4	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code	Share Options over Ordinary Shares of 0.25p each ISIN for Oxford Metrics plc Ordinary Shares GB0030312788
b)	Nature of the transaction	Grant of share options
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) 59.1p 400,000
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	n/a
e)	Date of the transaction	28 July 2017
f)	Place of the transaction	Outside a trading venue

For further information please contact:

Oxford Metrics plc	[phone]
Nick Bolton, CEO
David Deacon, CFO
FTI Consulting	[phone]
Matt Dixon / Charles Palmer / Emma Appleton / Harry Staight
N+1 Singer (NOMAD to Oxford Metrics)	[phone]
Shaun Dobson / James White

About Oxford Metrics plc

Oxford Metrics develops and markets analytics software for motion measurement and infrastructure asset management to clients in over 70 countries worldwide. Our list of clients across the globe is as diverse as the markets we operate in; we help highways authorities manage and maintain their road networks, hospitals and clinicians decide therapeutic strategies and Hollywood studios create stunning visual effects. And the diversity of applications is growing all the time.

The group trades through two subsidiaries: Vicon and Yotta. Vicon is the world's leader in high precision motion measurement analysis to thousands of customers worldwide, including Guy's Hospital, EA Sports, MIT and NASA and our software is used in an ever expanding range of applications. Yotta provides cloud-based infrastructure asset management software to central and local government agencies and other infrastructure owners.  Yotta has a large number of high profile clients including Highways England and Amey in the UK and VicRoads in Australia amongst others.

Founded in 1984 our group is headquartered in Oxford with offices in Leamington Spa, Gloucester, California, Colorado and Singapore. Since 2001, Oxford Metrics (LSE: OMG), has been a quoted company listed on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange.

For more information about Oxford Metrics, visit www.oxfordmetrics.com

 

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