Director dealings: Aptitude Software CEO disposes of shares

Aptitude Software Group revealed on Tuesday that chief executive officer Tom Crawford had disposed of 540,036 ordinary shares in the London-listed firm.

Crawford, who recently announced his decision to not seek re-election at Aptitude's 2020 annual general meeting, sold the shares at an average price of 560p each, for a total value of £3.02m.

Aptitude's chief executive had exercised options over 514,129 ordinary shares awarded to him as part of the company's incentive scheme earlier in the same day.

Following the sales, Crawford's stake in Aptitude was unchanged at 0.6% of the company's issued share capital.

Back in May, Aptitude entered into an agreement to sell the entire issued share capital of its wholly-owned subsidiary Microgen Financial Systems to Moscow Bidco.

Aptitude described Moscow Bidco as a newly-incorporated private limited company controlled by funds advised by Silverfleet Capital Partners, with the disposal being for an aggregate cash consideration of £51m.

As of 1615 BST, Aptitude shares had slipped 3.19% to 546p.

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