Directors dealings: Hikma's Said Darwazah buys £4.32m of shares

Darwazah, whose father founded the company, paid 2160p a share, snaffling 200,000 of them. At about 18:03 BST, shares in Hikma were up 1.49% to 2182p.

On Thursday, Clinton and several senators spoke out against pharmaceutical pricing by drug companies, denting their shares in London and in the US.

A day earlier, on Wednesday, Hikma reported a jump in first-half revenues but a drop in operating profit, as it reiterated its full-year revenue guidance.

In the six months to the end of June, core revenue rose to $882m from $709m, but operating profit slipped to $176m from $204m due to a lower contribution from specific market opportunities for the generics business compared with the first half of 2015.

The company declared an interim dividend of 11 cents per share, in line with the dividend in the same period last year.

Top Director Buys

Hikma Pharmaceuticals (HIK)
Director name: Darwazah,Said
Amount purchased: 200,000 @ 2,160.00p
Value: £4,320,000.08

Frenkel Topping Group (FEN)
Director name: Granite,Jason
Amount purchased: 843,000 @ 44.00p
Value: £370,920.00

Haydale Graphene Industries (HAYD)
Director name: Gibbs,Raymond (Ray) John
Amount purchased: 115,000 @ 180.00p
Value: £206,999.99

Eurocell (ECEL)
Director name: Kelly,Mark
Amount purchased: 43,939 @ 170.69p
Value: £74,999.48

Scapa Group (SCPA)
Director name: Hardcastle,Graham
Amount purchased: 20,000 @ 245.93p
Value: £49,186.00

Eurocell (ECEL)
Director name: Lawson,Robert (Bob)
Amount purchased: 15,739 @ 170.69p
Value: £26,864.90

Cropper (james) (CRPR)
Director name: Cropper,Mark A J
Amount purchased: 2,600 @ 887.50p
Value: £23,075.00

John Laing Group (JLG)
Director name: Brousse,Olivier
Amount purchased: 5,815 @ 256.40p
Value: £14,909.66

Jupiter Us Smaller Companies (JUS)
Director name: Booth,Lisa
Amount purchased: 463 @ 744.75p
Value: £3,448.19

Sky (SKY)
Director name: Lewis,Dave
Amount purchased: 334 @ 870.50p
Value: £2,907.47

Centrica (CNA)
Director name: Pusey,Stephen
Amount purchased: 989 @ 236.20p
Value: £2,336.02

Centrica (CNA)
Director name: Meakins,Ian
Amount purchased: 854 @ 236.20p
Value: £2,017.15

Centrica (CNA)
Director name: Valle,Margherita D.
Amount purchased: 842 @ 236.20p
Value: £1,988.80

Sky (SKY)
Director name: Gilbert,Martin J
Amount purchased: 119 @ 870.50p
Value: £1,035.89

Sky (SKY)
Director name: Pigasse,Matthieu
Amount purchased: 117 @ 870.50p
Value: £1,018.48

Sky (SKY)
Director name: Sukawaty,Andrew (Andy)
Amount purchased: 114 @ 870.50p
Value: £992.37

Sky (SKY)
Director name: Clarke,Tracy Jayne
Amount purchased: 74 @ 870.50p
Value: £644.17

Blackrock Throgmorton Trust (THRG)
Director name: Beart,Simon
Amount purchased: 160 @ 328.00p
Value: £524.80

Blackrock Throgmorton Trust (THRG)
Director name: Beart,Simon
Amount purchased: 146 @ 328.00p
Value: £478.88

Standard Life (SL.)
Director name: Matthews,Paul
Amount purchased: 63 @ 355.00p
Value: £223.65

Standard Life (SL.)
Director name: Savage,Luke
Amount purchased: 42 @ 355.00p
Value: £149.10

Blackrock Throgmorton Trust (THRG)
Director name: Latymer,Lord
Amount purchased: 45 @ 328.00p
Value: £147.60

Standard Life (SL.)
Director name: Skeoch,Keith
Amount purchased: 35 @ 355.00p
Value: £124.25

Top Director Sells

Frenkel Topping Group (FEN)
Director name: Fraser,Richard
Amount sold: 1,000,000 @ 44.00p
Value: £440,000.00

Frenkel Topping Group (FEN)
Director name: Dean,Julie
Amount sold: 686,000 @ 44.00p
Value: £301,840.00

Haydale Graphene Industries (HAYD)
Director name: Gibbs,Raymond (Ray) John
Amount sold: 115,000 @ 179.96p
Value: £206,954.00

Pennon Group (PNN)
Director name: Loughlin,Christopher
Amount sold: 16,040 @ 882.01p
Value: £141,474.40

Pennon Group (PNN)
Director name: Davy ,Susan
Amount sold: 6,617 @ 882.01p
Value: £58,362.60