1st Quarter Results - Interim Management Statement

RNS Number : 4138Y
Mobeus Income & Growth VCT PLC
08 May 2019
 

 

Mobeus Income & Growth VCT plc ("the Company")

 

INTERIM MANAGEMENT STATEMENT

For the quarter ended 31 March 2019

 

Mobeus Income & Growth VCT plc presents an Interim Management Statement for the quarter ended 31 March 2019. The statement also includes relevant financial information between the end of the period and the date of this statement. 

 

NET ASSET VALUE AND TOTAL RETURN PER SHARE                                             

At 31 March 2019

At 31 December 2018

Net assets attributable to shareholders    

£78,430,032

£75,077,982

Shares in issue

106,902,163

106,865,868

Net asset value (NAV) per share                    

73.37p

70.25p

Cumulative dividends paid

113.80p

113.80p

Cumulative Total return (net asset value basis) per share since inception

187.17p

184.05p

 

 

DIVIDENDS

A final dividend of 5.00 pence per share in respect of the year ended 31 December 2018 was approved by shareholders at the AGM held today.  The final dividend will be paid, to shareholders on the register on 26 April 2019, on 17 May 2019 and will bring cumulative dividends paid since inception to 118.80 pence per share.

 

NEW INVESTMENTS

The Company made no new investments during the quarter.

 

DIVESTMENTS

There were no divestments during the quarter. 

 

REPURCHASE OF PREFERENCE SHARES AND DEFERRED CONSIDERATION RECEIPTS

The VCT received £0.09 million from the repurchase of preference shares by Plastic Surgeon and a further £0.31 million in deferred consideration in respect of Entanet Holdings, an investment realised in a prior year.

 

LOAN STOCK REPAYMENTS

The VCT received final repayments from the five companies preparing to trade totalling £1.80 million.

 

SHARE BUYBACKS

There were no share buybacks during the quarter. 

 

Shortly after the quarter end, on 3 April 2019, the Company repurchased 938,401 of its own ordinary shares at a price of 61.9327 pence per share for cancellation.

 

Following this share buyback and cancellation there are now 105,963,762 ordinary shares of 1 penny each in issue.

 

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Company is pleased to announce that all of the resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held today, 8 May 2019, were approved by shareholders.

 

Please note that all of the above information is unaudited.

 

Other than as described above, there were no material events during the period 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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