Director dealings: Darktrace CEO lowers stake

Darktrace revealed on Monday that chief executive Poppy Gustafsson had disposed of 75,000 ordinary shares in the London-listed cyber security company.

Gustafsson, who took over as CEO in October 2016, sold the shares on Friday at an average price of 360.0p each, for a total value of £269,999.99.

The total amount sold was less than 2% of Gustafsson's vested and unvested holdings in Darktrace.

As of 1600 GMT, Darktrace shares were down 0.54% at 350.50p.

Reporting by Iain Gilbert at Sharecast.com

Top Director Buys

Tesco (TSCO)
Director name: Fairbairn,Dame Carolyn
Amount purchased: 35,000 @ 299.55p
Value: £104,842.25

Time Out Group (TMO)
Director name: Till,David
Amount purchased: 170,273 @ 53.60p
Value: £91,266.33

K3 Business Technology Group (KBT)
Director name: Scott,Oliver Rupert Andrew
Amount purchased: 38,000 @ 109.16p
Value: £41,480.80

Afentra (AET)
Director name: Cloke,Ian Richard
Amount purchased: 55,700 @ 36.00p
Value: £20,052.00

Atrato Onsite Energy (ROOF)
Director name: Davenport,Juliet
Amount purchased: 17,000 @ 72.50p
Value: £12,325.00

(CBX)
Director name: Edwards,Michael
Amount purchased: 833,333 @ 0.59p
Value: £4,950.00

Fdm Group (holdings) (FDM)
Director name: Flavell,Sheila
Amount purchased: 229 @ 436.00p
Value: £998.44

Fdm Group (holdings) (FDM)
Director name: Flavell,Roderick (Rod)
Amount purchased: 229 @ 436.00p
Value: £998.44

Fdm Group (holdings) (FDM)
Director name: McLaren ,Michael (Mike)
Amount purchased: 114 @ 436.00p
Value: £497.04

United Utilities Group (UU.)
Director name: Beardmore,Louise
Amount purchased: 17 @ 1,050.53p
Value: £178.59

United Utilities Group (UU.)
Director name: Aspin,Phil
Amount purchased: 17 @ 1,050.53p
Value: £178.59

Sthree (STEM)
Director name: Beach,Andrew
Amount purchased: 39 @ 386.50p
Value: £150.74

Aj Bell (AJB)
Director name: Stott,Roger
Amount purchased: 50 @ 300.54p
Value: £150.27

Firstgroup (FGP)
Director name: Mangold,Ryan
Amount purchased: 84 @ 178.10p
Value: £149.60

C&c Group (cdi) (CCR)
Director name: McMahon,Patrick
Amount purchased: 81 @ 152.40p
Value: £123.44

Sthree (STEM)
Director name: Lehne,Timo
Amount purchased: 15 @ 386.50p
Value: £59.32

Top Director Sells

Tpximpact Holdings (TPX)
Director name: Gandhi,Neal Narendra
Amount sold: 3,350,000 @ 33.00p
Value: £1,105,500.04

Darktrace (DARK)
Director name: Gustafsson,Poppy
Amount sold: 75,000 @ 360.00p
Value: £269,999.99

Afentra (AET)
Director name: Cloke,Ian Richard
Amount sold: 56,054 @ 35.08p
Value: £19,662.23