QUILTER PLC - Notification of transactions by Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities

What this filing means

Two Quilter executives exercised and immediately sold shares under a sharesave plan — a routine equity-settlement event. Marcus Brookes (CIO) and Stephen Gazard (Chief Distribution Officer) each exercised 26,086 options at £0.69 and sold the same number at £1.966 on 18 August 2026. The sale immediately followed the exercise, so neither executive is expressing a directional view on the share. The market had sold off into the print (CAR-20 −8.3%), but that drift is unrelated to this filing.

Two senior Quilter managers had options to buy shares at a fixed price (£0.69) that had been building up over three years of saving. They exercised those options and immediately sold the shares on the market at £1.966 — collecting the profit between the two prices in one move. This is what sharesave plans are designed to do. Neither executive is keeping the shares, so the filing does not tell you whether they think the share will go up or down from here. It is a compliance notice, not a market signal.