Interim Management Statement - 3rd Quarter

RNS Number : 9292P

Mobeus Income & Growth 2 VCT PLC

13 February 2019

 

Mobeus Income & Growth 2 VCT plc

(the "Company")

INTERIM MANAGEMENT STATEMENT

For the quarter ended 31 December 2018

Mobeus Income & Growth 2 VCT plc presents an Interim Management Statement for the quarter ended 31 December 2018.  The statement also includes relevant financial information between the end of the quarter and the date of this statement.

NET ASSET VALUE AND TOTAL RETURN PER SHARE

	At 31 December 2018	At 30 September 2018
Net assets attributable to shareholders	£49,505,946	£48,860,422
Shares in issue	49,184,909	49,304,159
Net asset value (NAV) per share	100.65 pence	99.10 pence
Cumulative dividends paid to date per share since inception	78.00 pence	78.00 pence
Total return per share since inception (NAV basis)	178.65 pence	177.10 pence

DIVIDENDS

No dividends were paid during the quarter.

The Board has today declared an interim dividend of 5.00 pence per share for the year ending 31 March 2019, which will be paid on 22 March 2019 to shareholders on the share register on 22 February 2019.  Following payment of this dividend, cumulative dividends paid per share since the launch of the current share class will be 83.00 pence per share.

SHARE BUY-BACKS

On 14 December 2018, the Company bought back 119,250 of its ordinary shares at a price of 88.00 pence per share.

All shares bought back by the Company were subsequently cancelled.

INVESTMENT ACTIVITY

New investment

On 28 November 2018, the Company made a new investment of £0.28 million into Kudos Innovations Limited (trading as Grow Kudos), a platform for the dissemination of academic research.

Follow-on investments

On 9 October 2018, a follow-on investment of £0.54 million was made into Pattern Analytics Limited (trading as Biosite).

On 10 October 2018, a follow-on investment of £0.29 million was made into Proactive Group Holdings Inc.

On 19 October 2018 and 19 December 2018, follow-on investments totalling £0.09 million were made into MPB Group Limited.

Repurchase of preference shares by investee company

On 31 October 2018, The Plastic Surgeon Holdings Limited carried out a repurchase of preference shares in which £0.05 million of proceeds were received by the Company. After the quarter end, on 31 January 2019 a further £0.05 million of preference shares were repurchased by the company.

Please note that all of the information above is unaudited.

Other than as described above, there were no material events during the quarter and to the date of this announcement.

For further information, please contact:

Robert King, for Mobeus Equity Partners LLP, Company Secretary: 020 7024 7600.

 

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