Spectris (#SXS) – Q3 LFL sales -10% YoY and orders -6% as anticipated recovery “is taking longer to materialise”

Tom Winnifrith US Election podcast: big news in North Carolina and Minnesota

Georgina Energy (#GEX) – states “a number of recent blog and social media posts… contain a number of false and misleading statements”. Why not say who you mean?

Eckoh (#ECK) – recommended 54p per share offer from Bridgepoint

OptiBiotix Health (#OPTI) – Peterhouse Capital refuses request for consent from company to be able to vote its shares at requisitioned General Meeting of ProBiotix Heath (#PBX)

Equals (#EQLS) – possible 135p per share offer and 2p per share special dividend, necessary transaction documentation being ‘advanced’

CAB Payments (#CABP) – trading warning, states possible offer discussions with StoneX Group Inc. are continuing

Aston Martin Lagonda (#AML) – Q3 still a loss, states “on track to deliver revised FY 2024 guidance, as supply chain disruptions are proactively managed”

Next (#NXT) – Q3 full price sales +7.6% YoY, upgrades FY profit guidance

Nexus Infrastructure (#NEXS) – FY “in line with market expectations”, acquisition of Coleman Construction & Utilities for a net up to £4.38m

Gooch & Housego (#GHH) – acquisition of “precision optics” business Phoenix Optical for £3.4m and up to a further £3.35m

#SDI – acquisition of industrial measurement systems business InspecVision for a net £6.1m

#TERN – two of three board members replaced having “stepped down… to concentrate on their other business interests”, hmmm

#IQE – CEO Americo Lemos “has left the company with immediate effect”. Er, why’s that then?

James Cropper (#CRPR) – CEO Steve Adams has notified of intention to retire “in early 2025”, David Stirling appointed to succeed

Keras Resources (#KRS) – raises just £0.3725m at 2.5p per share

Touchstar (#TST) – H2 revenue “broadly similar to the first half… below expectations”, though the half “still expected to be strongly cash generative”

IG Design (#IGR) – H1 revenue -11% YoY, argues to still anticipate “strong year-on-year improvement in both profit and cash flow”

Ultimate Products (#ULTP) – FY adj. EPS down to 12.3p, DPS maintained at 7.38p, maintaining expectations though “UK trading remains challenging”

#RWS Holdings – H2 adj. revenue return to YoY growth at +2%, expects FY adj. PBT “within the range of market expectations”