UK 16:07 Friday, 18 September 2026
Breaking news and expert analysis on fast-moving AIM and LSE listed shares
On Friday afternoon fishing retailer Angling Direct (ANG) was pleased to announce that, following testing and further reassurance from its third-party cyber security advisers, its websites are back online and trading in the normal course. With their not having been doing so after unauthorised activity on its network was detected as long ago as the previous Friday, is there still to be a detrimental impact on trading?...
Fishing retailer Angling Direct (ANG) has announced that, following a cyber attack, it now has “regained control of its websites and social media channels… is confident it has now eradicated any threat from its systems”. So what of the shares, currently just above 60p?...
Fishing retailer Angling Direct (ANG) has notified of a “cyber security incident”, though emphasising that it currently “does not anticipate that this incident will have a detrimental impact on underlying trading” and that it “does not hold any customer financial data as our website transactions are handled by third parties”. So what of a current 3.6% share price fall to 66.5p?...
Self-styled “leading omni-channel specialist fishing tackle and equipment retailer”, Angling Direct (ANG) has made a half-year trading update emphasising that it “is pleased to have made further progress in the period, despite all retail stores being closed at the beginning of the period (1 February) to 12 April 2021 due to government restrictions during the third Covid-19 lockdown”. With the shares currently responding up to 72.5p, how pleasing is the progress relative to the valuation?...
Having been trying to emphasise “positive trends… namely encouraging levels of trade across the company's webstores in both the UK and international markets”, now from Angling Direct (ANG) a “delighted with the strong support… raised gross proceeds of £5.50 million through a placing”...
My beef with Angling Direct (ANG) is that I view fishing as a sport increasingly enjoyed by old codgers. I look at the local club that rents our stretch of the River Dee and fear that after each cold winter it will be needing rather fewer pegs. I see a business growing its online sales sharply but whose offline operation still accounts for half of sales and which, for all the usual reasons, must be in decline. And today we have a Covid 19 update and a big warning on cash which, for reasons I am sure you can guess, does not actually say how little cash is left.
The largest specialist fishing tackle and equipment retailer in the UK, Angling Direct (ANG) has updated including “in-store sales were £27.9 million, an increase of 41.3% on the prior year period and up 12.0% on a like-for-like basis” and “online sales grew to £25.2 million, an increase of 13.3% on the prior year period”. The shares have currently responded to around 60p – circa 13% lower. Hmmm…
