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NINETY ONE LIMITED - Notification of transactions by relevant Directors, Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities and persons closely associated with them, prescribed officers, company secretaries and associates

Ninety One Group
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What this filing means

A routine PDMR disclosure: Forty Two Point Two — a trust vehicle connected to five Ninety One directors including co-founders Hendrik du Toit and Kim McFarland — acquired 2,674 Ninety One plc ordinary shares on 3 September 2026 at GBP 2.088 per share in London. The deal is small (roughly GBP 5,585), its cost basis is undisclosed, and the filing carries low materiality, meaning it does not constitute a meaningful directional signal on its own.

Some people who run Ninety One bought a tiny number of the company's shares through a trust they benefit from. The trade is so small relative to the company's size that it tells you almost nothing about whether the shares are cheap or expensive. It is a regulatory formality, not an investment signal.

Bear case

  • The transaction is through a trust vehicle (Marathon Trust) holding interests for multiple connected persons; the individual beneficial ownership split is not disclosed.
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SENS-AI conclusion

The acquisition of 2,674 shares through a trust vehicle connected to multiple directors documents a change in beneficial ownership. So what: there is no investment signal here; the next meaningful update for NY1 will be a results or trading statement.

No single follow-up item is material to this row. Monitor the next scheduled results or trading update for the investment case.

Evidence from the filing

  • The disclosed transaction details — price, volume, date, and place.

    “Price GBP 2.088 Volume 2,674”
  • Forty Two Point Two is a trust vehicle with multiple directors as beneficiaries — individual beneficial split not disclosed.

    “Forty Two Point Two is wholly owned by the Marathon Trust and the undermentioned persons (who are directors of Ninety One plc, Ninety One Limited and/or major subsidiaries of Ninety One) are beneficiaries of the Marathon Trust.”
Category
Director Dealings
Event posture
No Edge
Published
Sep 7, 2026

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