Notification of Transactions of Director/PDMR

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Kainos Group plc announced that Richard McCann, Director, exercised his 2016 PSP options over 57,403 ordinary shares at a price of £0.005 per share on June 8, 2026, retaining the shares. Following this transaction, Mr. McCann and his Person Closely Associated now hold a total of 4,688,879 ordinary shares, representing 4.039% of the company's issued share capital.

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Kainos Group plc
08 June 2026
 

08 June 2026

Kainos Group plc

("Kainos" or the "Company") 

 

Notification of Transactions of Director/PDMR

The Company was notified on 8 June 2026 that Richard McCann, Director, exercised his 2016 PSP options over ordinary shares in the Company. Mr McCann retained the ordinary shares on exercise. Following this notification, Mr McCann and his Person Closely Associated (PCA) have a reportable shareholding of 4,688,879 ordinary shares in the issued share capital of the Company, constituting 4.039% of the issued share capital of the Company.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging

managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them.

 (A19 Market Abuse Regulation)

 

1.         

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a.         

Name

 

Richard McCann

2.         

Reason for the notification

a.         

Position/status

CFO/COO

b.         

Initial notification/ Amendment

Initial Notification

3.         

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a.         

Name

Kainos Group plc

b.         

LEI

213800H2PQMIF3OVZY47

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

Options over Ordinary Shares of £0.005 each

KNOS

b.         

Nature of the transaction

Exercise of PSP Share Award

c.         

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

£0.005

57,403

d.         

Aggregated information

·      Aggregated volume

·      Price

 N/A

 

e.         

Date of the transaction

08-06-26

f.         

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

 

 

Kainos Group plc Legal Entity Identifier: 213800H2PQMIF3OVZY47 

 

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For further information, please contact:

Kainos                                                                                                    via FTI Consulting LLP
Brendan Mooney, Chief Executive Officer
Richard McCann, Chief Financial Officer

Investec Bank plc                                                                                +44 20 7597 5970
Patrick Robb / Nick Prowting / Arnav Kapoor

FTI Consulting LLP                                                                                 +44 20 3727 1000
Dwight Burden / Kwaku Aning

About Kainos Group plc
Kainos Group plc is a UK-headquartered provider of sophisticated IT services to major public sector, commercial and healthcare customers and a developer of software applications.

 

Our shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: KNOS).

 

Our expertise spans three divisions:

 

Digital Services develops and supports custom digital service platforms, which help customers solve key business problems such as the need to improve their service, reduce costs and increase productivity.

 

Workday Services is a respected Workday partner, providing a comprehensive range of services to support customers deploying Workday's Finance, HR and Planning products.

 

Workday Products develops proprietary software products that complement Workday, by enhancing our customers' system security and compliance and improving their document generation and storage.

 

Our purpose

Our purpose is to help our customers with their most challenging projects and, together with our partners, help them build the capability to succeed in the digital age.

 

Find out more
You can discover more about us at 
www.kainos.com.

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