Xstrata boss bags £8m profit on options
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Xstrata chief executive Mick Davis has sold 1m shares in the mining giant. Davis acquired these shares by exercising options - 877,955 shares at 217.32p a share and 122,045 at 239.11p a share. The total cost of these shares was £2.2m and they were sold for a profit of nearly £8m.
Davis retains 1.38m shares in Xstrata, equivalent to 0.05% of the company. He acquired 891,396 shares in the company's rights issue earlier this year. These shares were acquired for 210p each.
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