GUIDE
Directors' dealings in the United Kingdom: rules and data
When managers of a company listed in the United Kingdom trade its shares, the trade must be made public within a set time. This page gives the rules and what this site's filings from the United Kingdom show.
The rules
- Who files: persons discharging managerial responsibilities (PDMRs) and persons closely associated with them.
- Deadline: the person notifies the company and the FCA within 3 working days of the trade; the company announces it within 2 working days of receiving it.
- Threshold: EUR 5,000 in a calendar year; every trade after that total is reached must be notified.
- Closed period: the 30 calendar days before a year-end or interim report, unless the company grants a permitted exception.
Regulator: FCA · This site reads: FCA National Storage Mechanism
What the filings show
2024-10-18 – 2026-10-16: 8,678 purchase filings at 1,126 companies by 3,565 filers. Median time from trade to publication: 0 business days; 1% took longer than 5 business days.
Latest purchase filings
| Published | Company | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | J D Wetherspoon plc | Board member |
| 2026-10-16 | Rockwood Strategic Plc | Role not classified |
| 2026-10-16 | Acceler8 Ventures plc | CEO / chair |
| 2026-10-16 | Xaar Plc | Associated person |
| 2026-10-16 | Everyman Media Group plc | Associated person |
| 2026-10-16 | Fiske Plc | Board member |
| 2026-10-16 | The Global Smaller Companies Trust PLC | Board member |
| 2026-10-16 | Eurocell plc | Associated person |
| 2026-10-16 | Games Workshop Group PLC | Role not classified |
| 2026-10-16 | Softcat plc | Board member |
Dates are the ones stated in the filing. Where a filing gave no separate trade date, most sources repeat the publication date, so same-day figures are overstated and the share that took longer is a lower bound. Gaps under zero or over 250 business days are treated as date errors and left out. A late filing can have an ordinary cause, such as a correction of an earlier notice.