Property information firm PSG Solutions has announced a tender offer that will give shareholders to sell some of their shares back to the company at a sharp premium to the prevailing market price.
The proposed deal will see PSG's broker, Northland Capital Partners, offering to buy up to 1.84m ordinary shares at 225p per share, with PSG then buying them back at a total cost of up to £4.14m and cancelling them; in other words this is a share buyback that will directly benefit shareholders, rather than just market makers.
PSG has form with this kind of transaction, as in September last year it completed another tender offer for 1.5m shares which were then cancelled. On that occasion, the offer price was 200p a share.
One of the directors of the firm, Bernie Connor, exercised options to buy 138,888 ordinary shares at 72p each last month. On paper this now looks like a rather sensible decision.
Over the last 12 months PSG shares have risen 472%. News of the tender offer saw the stock rise 23.4% by 10:47.
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