Director/PDMR Shareholding

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Pulsar Group plc announced that Non-Executive Director Max Royde notified the company of a transfer of 106,500 ordinary shares out of Kestrel Partners LLP's discretionary management due to client portfolio rearrangements, with the beneficial ownership remaining unchanged. Following this, Kestrel Opportunities, in which Mr. Royde has a beneficial interest, continues to hold 20,227,082 shares, and other Kestrel clients without Mr. Royde's interest hold 18,481,660 shares, resulting in Kestrel indirectly holding voting rights over approximately 28.55% of the company's total voting rights, equivalent to 38,708,742 ordinary shares.

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Pulsar Group PLC
07 April 2026
 

07 April 2026

 

Pulsar Group plc

("Pulsar" or the "Company")

Director/PDMR Shareholdings

Pulsar Group plc (AIM: PULS) announces that it has received notification from Mr. Max Royde, Non-Executive Director of the Company, that an aggregate of 106,500 ordinary shares of 5 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") have been transferred out of Kestrel Partners LLP's ("Kestrel") discretionary management and control due to the rearrangement of two client portfolios. These Ordinary Shares continue to be held by the same beneficial owners.

Mr. Royde is a partner of, and holds a beneficial interest in, Kestrel. Mr. Royde is also a shareholder in the Kestrel Opportunities Fund ("Kestrel Opportunities") and is therefore deemed to have a beneficial interest in Kestrel Opportunities' entire legal holding of Ordinary Shares in the Company.

Following this transaction, Kestrel Opportunities continues to hold (and consequently Mr. Royde is deemed to have a beneficial interest in) 20,227,082 Ordinary Shares, and other discretionary management clients of Kestrel, in which Mr. Royde has no beneficial interest hold 18,481,660 Shares in the Company.

On a combined basis, Kestrel indirectly holds voting rights over 38,708,742 Ordinary Shares in the Company, which represents approximately 28.55% of the total voting rights in the Company.

Kestrel's interest in the Ordinary Shares in the Company is held through the following nominees:

Nominee

No. of Ordinary Shares

% of total voting rights

Bank of New York Nominees Ltd

20,227,082

14.92%

JIM Nominees Limited

31,500

0.02%

Bank of New York Nominees Ltd

10,576,173

7.80%

Northern Trust Company AVFC

6,097,181

4.49%

iDealing Nominees Limited

1,010,887

0.75%

CB NYK - CITIBANK N.A.-PRIVATE BK

333,333

0.25%

An individual Client at Fidelity International Limited

416,666

0.31%

An individual in certificated form

15,920

0.01%

 

For further information contact:


Pulsar Group plc

Joanna Arnold (CEO)

Mark Fautley (CFO)

 020 3426 4070

 


 

Cavendish Capital Markets Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker)

Corporate Finance:

Marc Malmo / Fergus Sullivan / Elysia Bough

 

Corporate Broking

Sunila de Silva

020 7220 0500 

 

 

 

ANNEX

The Notification of Dealing Forms set out below are provided in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation.

1

 

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

 

a)

 

Name

 

 

Max Royde

 

2

 

Reason for the notification

 

a)

 

Position/status

 

 

PCA - Kestrel Partners LLP are a PCA of Max Royde (Non-Executive Director of the Company) and Partner of Kestrel).

b)

 

Initial notification /Amendment

Initial

3

 

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

 

a)

 

Name

 

Pulsar Group plc

b)

 

LEI

 

213800PPZ4ZM8OMHGT41

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

 

Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each

 

 

ISIN: GB00BGQVB052

 

b)

 

Nature of the transaction

 

Transfer of Ordinary Shares out of Kestrel controlled accounts. Mr. Royde is a partner of, and holds a beneficial interest in, Kestrel. Mr. Royde is also a shareholder in one of Kestrel's clients ("Kestrel Opportunities") and is therefore deemed to have a beneficial interest in Kestrel Opportunities' entire legal holding in Shares in the Company.

c)

 

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

 

Price(s)

 

Volume(s)

N/A

106,500

d)

 

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

 

As above.

 

e)

 

Date of the transaction

31 March 2026

f)

 

Place of the transaction

N/A

 

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