| Period | Completed events | Price coverage | Hit rate | Median excess return | Average excess return | Worst excess return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5D | 2Small sample | 100.0% (2/2) | 0.0% (0/2) | -3.0% | -3.0% | -3.6% |
| 20D | 1Small sample | 100.0% (1/1) | 0.0% (0/1) | -7.0% | -7.0% | -7.0% |
| 60D | 1Small sample | 100.0% (1/1) | 0.0% (0/1) | -2.3% | -2.3% | -2.3% |
| 120D | 1Small sample | 100.0% (1/1) | 0.0% (0/1) | -31.0% | -31.0% | -31.0% |
COMPANY RESEARCH
Acceler8 Ventures plc
AC8.L · United Kingdom · Financial Services · Shell Companies
INSIDER SIGNAL
Insider activity score：74.2 / 100
5 insiders · 5 purchase events · €313k net purchases
Europe #22 · United Kingdom #7
WHY THIS SIGNAL?
Score anatomy
Each bar shows the contribution to the current score; the weights and formula stay unchanged.
Cluster+35.0 / 35
How many distinct insiders bought in the cluster
Purchase size+20.5 / 25
Purchase value relative to company size and liquidity
Role+20.0 / 20
The seniority and relevance of participating insiders
Recency+8.7 / 10
How recently the purchases occurred
Conviction+10.0 / 10
How clearly buying stands out from other activity
What is holding the score back?
- ✓ Broad buyer cluster · 4+ distinct filers
- ✓ Strong insider role · ceo/chair involved
- ✓ Recent activity · latest purchase 2026-10-15
The role contribution uses the inverted role input of the current European model.
Buying concentration
39%
Largest buyer：Richard Kilsby · 102k GBP
Gross qualified purchase transaction-line value：264k GBP
The headline € total is net buying for the screen; this module uses gross qualified purchase transaction-line values in the filing currency, so the amounts can differ. The current 15-day buyer-breadth input counts distinct buyers; value concentration is disclosed separately here.
This is a ranking under the current European screening rules—not a probability of gain, return forecast, or buy recommendation.
Key purchase quotes (filing currency)
| Filer | Price per unit | Trade date |
|---|---|---|
| 2. Reason for the notification | 0.6–0.625 GBP | Oct 15, 2026 |
| Daniel Levine | 0.575–0.625 GBP | Oct 15, 2026 |
| Richard Kilsby | 0.93 GBP | Aug 14, 2026 |
Model details
Cluster breakdown (does not change the score)
- 15-day buyer breadth (count)
- 4 distinct reported filers
- Peak time window
- 2026-10-14 to 2026-10-15
- Current breadth input
- 1.000 (capped at 4+ buyers)
- Buyer independence
- Not yet measured; related-party fields are not cross-market comparable
What the filings show
- 🟢 Recent eligible purchase
2. Reason for the notification · 55k GBP · Price 0.6–0.625 GBP · Oct 15, 2026 - 🟢 PDMR purchase
Daniel Levine · 45k GBP · Price 0.575–0.625 GBP · Oct 15, 2026 - 🟢 PDMR purchase
Richard Kilsby · 102k GBP · Price 0.93 GBP · Aug 14, 2026 - 🟡 2 remaining qualified transaction line(s) across 2 disclosure(s)
Insider vs stock price
3 purchase day(s), 7 purchase line(s) in the 180-day window.
Daily close (GBp)Day with an insider purchaseTwo or more insiders the same day
Markers sit on the closing price of the transaction day. They show when insiders traded, not the price they paid or received. "Since" compares that day's close with the last close shown; it is what happened at this company, not a forecast.
If you had followed the purchase
Each row starts on the first close on or after the day a purchase was made public, the earliest a reader could have acted, and ends on the last close shown above.
| Made public | Insiders | In this stock, now | In the median peer stock, now | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-18 | 1 | 685 −31.5% | 989 −1.1% | −304 −30.4 pts |
| 2026-10-15 | 3 | 1,000 +0.0% | 1,003 +0.3% | −3 −0.3 pts |
0 of 2 disclosure day(s) ended ahead of the median peer stock.
Close to close, before costs, taxes, dividends and currency moves. The peer is the median of the other stocks on the same exchange for which this site holds prices (84 here), not an index. This is what happened, not a forecast: across all purchases on this site the typical gap is close to zero.
Insider timeline
4 insiders bought within 2 days, 14 Oct to 15 Oct: 2 CEO / chair, 1 CFO, 1 Role not classified. The share closed at 59.50 on the first of those days and at 65.00 most recently (+9.2%). That week 138 companies across Europe disclosed insider purchases, an ordinary week (25 of the last 26).
Tap an item for what it means.
●A purchase: the bigger the dot, the more was bought
Each dot is one insider's purchases on one day. The dot's area follows the amount: the largest purchase here gets the largest dot. Hold the pointer over a dot to see the date and the amount.
▮Purple band: several insiders bought within 15 days
The band marks the stretch with the most different buyers: at most 15 days long and at least two people. Here it is 14 Oct – 15 Oct, with 4 insiders. Only the strongest stretch is marked. Several people deciding the same thing is harder to explain by one person's private reasons, but insiders often buy together just after a closed period ends, so compare it with the grey weekly bars.
Blue line: this share's price, +42.0% over these six months
The closing price of each day, from 45.78 on 2026-04-21 to 65.00 on 2026-10-16. The line has no scale; read it for high and low: a dot on a low stretch was bought cheaply, a dot on a high stretch was not.
Dashed line: the typical stock on the same exchange, +2.7%
Taken from the 491 other stocks on the same exchange that this site holds prices for. Each is measured from the first day of the window, and every day the middle one is drawn. It starts where the blue line starts, so the gap between the two is the difference: this share +42.0%, the typical one +2.7%, 39.3 points ahead. It is not an index and not a comparison within one industry.
▂Grey bars: companies across Europe disclosing purchases each week
A taller bar is a week in which more companies disclosed insider purchases. The purple bar is the week of the band above: 138 companies, number 25 of the last 26 weeks. If that week was a peak anyway, buying together is less special than it looks.
This company: insiders buying per month, last 12 months
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Darker bars are inside the 180-day window above.
Who traded
| Insider | Role | Purchases | Sales | Bought | First purchase | Share price since | Earlier purchases |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giles Willits | CFO | 1 | — | 47.2k GBP | 2026-10-14 | +9.2% | fewer than 5 completed |
| Sir Nigel Rudd | CEO / chair | 1 | — | 15.0k GBP | 2026-10-14 | +9.2% | fewer than 5 completed |
| Daniel Levine | CEO / chair | 1 | — | 45.1k GBP | 2026-10-15 | +0.0% | fewer than 5 completed |
| Richard Kilsby | Board member | 1 | — | 102.3k GBP | 2026-08-14 | −31.1% | fewer than 5 completed |
| 2. Reason for the notification | Role not classified | 1 | — | 54.6k GBP | 2026-10-15 | +0.0% | fewer than 5 completed |
Why this score? · Model details
Priority = 100 × Σ(fixed weight × 0–1 rule-based input)
| Factor | Weight | This company input | Point contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15-day buyer breadth (count) | 35% | 1.000 | 35.0 |
| Qualified-buy size | 25% | 0.820 | 20.5 |
| Role informativeness (inverted) | 20% | 0.000 | 0.0 |
| Recency | 10% | 0.871 | 8.7 |
| Buy/sell conviction | 10% | 1.000 | 10.0 |
This is a heuristic ordering under the current rules, not a calibrated return forecast. It explains why candidates rank differently; the public-filing evidence and data limits are shown below.
BULL VS BEAR
Two readings of this buying
The same filings, read two ways. Each line is a fact stored for this company with the number behind it, and appears only when that number crosses a fixed threshold. Neither side is a forecast and no winner is declared.
Since 2026-10-13: new on the bull side: several insiders together, more buyers than usual here, large purchases, senior executive buying, bought in the last two weeks; new on the bear side: thinly traded; no longer on the bear side: one buyer only. All bull and bear lists, and what followed each line in the past →
Where the evidence comes from
Independent evidence does not object: the purchases themselves carry bull lines (several insiders together, more buyers than usual here, large purchases, senior executive buying, bought in the last two weeks); share price and trading, short sellers, company results, company actions were checked and none crosses a bear threshold.
- The insider purchases themselvesBullseveral insiders together, more buyers than usual here, large purchases, senior executive buying, bought in the last two weeks3 checked, under the threshold · 3 missing
- Share price and tradingBearthinly traded2 checked, under the threshold
- Short sellers1 checked, under the threshold
- Company results1 checked, under the threshold · 1 missing
- Company actions1 checked, under the threshold
Bull case · the buying is informative
- 4 insiders bought within 15 days (2026-10-14 to 2026-10-15). Several people reaching the same decision at the same time is hard to put down to one person's circumstances.Record: after 5,401 earlier disclosures like this, the median 60-session excess return was −3.3%, within 1 percentage point of all comparable disclosures (−3.3%).
- No insider bought in the 180 days before this window; 5 have bought in it. The buying is new for this company, not a habit.Record: after 3,134 earlier disclosures like this, the median 60-session excess return was −2.7%, within 1 percentage point of all comparable disclosures (−2.7%).
- Insider purchases in the last 20 sessions equal 8.1% of everything traded in the stock over those sessions.
- The buyers include the CEO or chair, who sees more of the business than most filers. This site's score gives little or no credit for that: in its backtests purchases by senior executives did no better than other insiders' purchases.Record: after 8,797 earlier disclosures like this, the median 60-session excess return was −3.1%, within 1 percentage point of all comparable disclosures (−3.2%).
- The latest purchase is 2 days old (2026-10-15). The buying is current, not left over from an earlier quarter.
Bear case · discount it
- Share price and tradingAbout €118k of the stock changes hands on an average day, below this site's €500k screening line. A position is hard to enter or leave at the quoted price.
Evidence still missing
- No buyer here has 5 or more completed earlier purchases on record, so there is no track record to weigh.
- Only one reading of profitability is held (profit margin 99%). Whether earnings and cash flow are rising or falling needs the last two reports side by side.
- European notifications have no field saying whether a purchase was pre-arranged; there is no counterpart to the US 10b5-1 box. None of the 7 purchase lines mentions a plan, but a bare “Purchase of ordinary shares” does not rule one out.
- The filings give the size of each trade, not what the buyer already held. Whether a purchase added 1% to a personal stake or doubled it is not known.
Checked and under the threshold: 8
- BearThe largest buyer accounts for 39% of the value bought. Counted for the bear side from 80%.
- Bear0 of 5 buyers filed as a person closely associated with a manager. Counted for the bear side from half.
- BearNo insider sale is recorded in the same 180 days.
- BearThe share price changed +42% over six months (three months +1.0%, one month −10%) and stands 13% below its 52-week high. Counted for the bear side from a fall of 20%.
- BearOver three months the share price changed +1.0% and the median of 268 Financial Services companies changed −0.35%: ahead by 1 points. Counted for the bear side from 20 points behind.
- BearThe register of FCA shows no published net short position in this company.
- BullThe company announced no transaction in its own shares in the last 30 days.
- BearProfit margin on the latest captured figures is 99%. Counted for the bear side when negative.
Both columns arrange stored facts only. They do not change the insider score or the ranking and are not investment advice.
Signal history
74.2 / 100
Latest recorded score
↑ +26.6 ptsversus the comparable snapshot on 2026-09-14 (34 calendar days apart)
- Recorded snapshots
- 33
- First snapshot
- 2026-08-28
Only scores captured when the scoring run completed are compared. These are raw signal scores saved when each full scoring run completed. They describe changes in research ranking, not price performance or returns.
Why did it change?
Decomposition across the five score factors between comparable snapshots; historical scores are not recalculated.
- Cluster+24.5 pts
- Purchase size+1.5 pts
- Role+7.0 pts
- Recency+7.5 pts
Signal score history
Fixed 0–100 scale; dates are spaced by calendar time.
Recent recorded points
- 50.2
- 48.1
- 46.9
- 46.7
- 74.2
View all recorded scores
| Snapshot date | Signal score |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-28 | 50.2 |
| 2026-08-31 | 49.5 |
| 2026-09-01 | 49.3 |
| 2026-09-02 | 49.1 |
| 2026-09-03 | 48.9 |
| 2026-09-04 | 48.8 |
| 2026-09-07 | 48.3 |
| 2026-09-08 | 48.2 |
| 2026-09-09 | 48.1 |
| 2026-09-10 | 48.0 |
| 2026-09-11 | 47.9 |
| 2026-09-14 | 47.6 |
| 2026-09-23 | 47.1 |
| 2026-09-24 | 47.0 |
| 2026-09-25 | 47.0 |
| 2026-09-28 | 46.9 |
| 2026-09-29 | 46.9 |
| 2026-09-30 | 46.8 |
| 2026-10-01 | 46.8 |
| 2026-10-02 | 46.8 |
| 2026-10-03 | 46.8 |
| 2026-10-04 | 46.8 |
| 2026-10-05 | 46.7 |
| 2026-10-06 | 46.7 |
| 2026-10-07 | 46.7 |
| 2026-10-08 | 46.7 |
| 2026-10-09 | 46.7 |
| 2026-10-12 | 46.6 |
| 2026-10-13 | 46.6 |
| 2026-10-14 | 46.6 |
| 2026-10-15 | 70.2 |
| 2026-10-16 | 74.8 |
| 2026-10-18 | 74.2 |
Sector context
- Buying breadth
- 8.4% (55 / 655 issuers)
- Sector rank
- #6 / 12
- 7D breadth change
- +0.3 pp · vs 2026-10-12 (6d)
- 30D breadth change
- History building
This is sector-level research context. It does not affect the Insider Signal or ranking.
Insider profile outcomes
Historical performance following insider filings. The company role is translated below each name while preserving the original title.
- Excess return = stock return − FTSE 100 return over the same period.
- Hit rate = completed events with positive excess return ÷ total completed events.
- Price coverage = valid point-in-time prices ÷ events mature enough for that period.
- Returns start on the first shared trading session on or after publication.
- Small-sample rule: n<5 is shown for transparency and is not scored.
Events are disclosure-level observations; related disclosures published on the same date may share a return path and may not be statistically independent. This research enrichment does not affect the insider score or ranking.
Market context
PRICE PERFORMANCE
VOLATILITY & LIQUIDITY
- Volatility
- 179.3%
- Beta
- 0.70
- Avg daily volume
- £62,022.7
VALUATION
- Market cap
- £531.2M
- P/E
- 1.0×
FUNDAMENTALS
- Profit margin
- 99.3%
- ROE
- 37.2%
- Industry
- Shell Companies
Prices to 18 Oct 2026: price cache (Eulerpool). From OpenBB/yfinance, captured 18 Oct 2026: Market cap, P/E, Profit margin, ROE, Beta, Industry. It does not affect the insider score or rank.
Disclosed net short positions
The FCA register, read 18 Oct 2026, publishes no aggregate net short position for this issuer.
Short-position disclosures are external context; they do not affect the insider score, ranking, or filing eligibility.
Insiders' buying price vs the latest close
Insiders paid 0.7026 GBP a share on average (7 purchase lines, 5 buyers, 2026-08-14 – 2026-10-15). The close on 2026-10-16 was 7.5% below that price.
The latest purchase (2026-10-15) was at 0.6023 GBP; the close was 7.9% above that price.
Prices paid are weighted by shares and taken from the filings; dividends are not counted. Not scored.
Buying size vs market trading
8.12% · of estimated traded value in the same period
2026-09-21 – 2026-10-16 · 20 recorded trading sessions
- Disclosed qualifying purchases
- 161,875 GBP
- Estimated market traded value
- 1,994,321 GBP
Market-data coverage: 261 verified sessions · Latest session: 2026-10-16 · Ratio status: Available
Recent and largest purchase events / preceding 60-session ADTV
- Oct 15 · 2. Reason for the notification · Initial notification54,562 GBP · 71.15%76,682 GBP ADTV
- Oct 15 · Daniel Levine · Chief Executive Officer45,125 GBP · 58.85%76,682 GBP ADTV
- Oct 14 · Giles Willits · Chief Financial Officer47,188 GBP · 63.96%73,782 GBP ADTV
- Oct 14 · Sir Nigel Rudd · Chairman15,000 GBP · 20.33%73,782 GBP ADTV
- Aug 14 · Richard Kilsby · Non-Executive Director102,300 GBP · 5087.29%2,011 GBP ADTV
Traded value is estimated as close × shares traded, in major currency units. Includes disclosed qualifying purchases; disclosures may lag. Contractual or planned acquisitions are not necessarily discretionary. Ratios describe relative trading size, not market participation or score contributions.
Latest news
No news has been captured for this company.
Regulatory filings
- Insider filing announcement · published 2026-10-16 · trade date 2026-10-14
- Insider filing announcement · published 2026-10-15 · trade date 2026-10-15
- Insider filing announcement · published 2026-08-17 · trade date 2026-08-14
Filing evidence
These are underlying national-feed records from the 365-day window ending on the saved ranking snapshot. The score uses only the latest 180 days; older qualifying equity purchases remain visible for audit but do not enter the current score. The original filer, role, transaction classification, instrument, price, volume, value and source fields are retained. The first three rows are shown; remaining records can be unfolded for audit. Other transaction types are retained but excluded from the score.
Excluded transactions & classification
7 qualifying purchase disclosure(s) · 7 transaction line(s)
Oct 15, 2026Purchase of ordinary shares
Daniel Levine · Chief Executive Officer
Ordinary shares · 70000 shares × 0.575 GBP · —
Open filingOct 15, 2026Purchase of ordinary shares
2. Reason for the notification · Initial notification
Ordinary shares · 10000 shares × 0.60 GBP · —
Open filingOct 15, 2026Purchase of ordinary shares
Daniel Levine · Chief Executive Officer
Ordinary shares · 7800 shares × 0.625 GBP · —
Open filingUnfold all 4 remaining filing row(s)
| Transaction date | Published | Filer | Role | Transaction | Instrument | Price (local currency) | Quote currency | Volume | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-15 | 2. Reason for the notification | Initial notification | Purchase of ordinary shares | Ordinary shares | 0.625 GBP | GBP | 77700 | Open filing |
| 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-16 | Sir Nigel Rudd | Chairman | Purchase of ordinary shares | Ordinary shares | 0.6 GBP | GBP | 25000 | Open filing |
| 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-15 | Giles Willits | Chief Financial Officer | Purchase of ordinary shares | Ordinary shares | 0.625 GBP | GBP | 75500 | Open filing |
| 2026-08-14 | 2026-08-17 | Richard Kilsby | Non-Executive Director | Purchase of ordinary shares | Ordinary shares | 0.93 GBP | GBP | 110000 | Open filing |
Showing 7 of 7 matching raw-feed row(s) from the current 365-day research window. Prices and reported values remain in the filing currency and its major unit (for example, UK pence are parsed as GBP). The screen-level € aggregate is separately FX-normalised for research ranking, not a trade-date conversion.
Other disclosed transactions · excluded from score
The underlying filing feed is unavailable in this snapshot; this is not a claim that no filings exist.
Snapshot & identity
- Snapshot date
- 2026-10-18
- Ticker
- AC8.L
- ISIN
- JE00BNG2DL20
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Shell Companies
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