Awards - Long Term Incentive Plan and PDMR dealing

Kooth

23/05/2025 16:06

RNS Number : 0453K

Kooth PLC

23 May 2025

 

23 May 2025

Kooth plc

("Kooth" or the "Company" or the "Group")

Awards under Long Term Incentive Plan and PDMR dealing

Kooth (AIM: KOO), a leading provider of digital mental health services, announces the fourth grant of options to Executive Directors and certain senior management under the Long-Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP") as outlined in Kooth's admission document dated 26 August 2020.

The LTIP was established to incentivise management to deliver long-term value creation for shareholders and ensure alignment with shareholder interests.

Background

The LTIP is a discretionary share plan. Under the LTIP the Board may, within certain limits and subject to any applicable performance conditions, grant to eligible employees (i) options over Shares ("LTIP Options") and/or (ii) an immediate award of Shares, subject to restrictions or forfeiture (together "LTIP Awards").

Award size, performance conditions and dilution

On 23 May 2025, options over 312,000 shares in aggregate (the "2025 Awards") were granted under the LTIP, including those set out below which were granted to directors:

Director / PDMR
Role
Number of shares over which 2025 Awards made
Kate Newhouse
Joint Chief Executive Officer
84,000
Sanjay Jawa
Chief Financial Officer
72,000

The vesting of the 2025 Awards is subject to the achievement of performance conditions based upon Kooth's total shareholder return over the three-year performance period commencing 31 March 2025 and the growth in the Company's earnings per share between 2025 and 2027. The awards will vest (subject to the achievement of the performance conditions) on 31 March 2028.  To the extent they vest, awards held by Executive Directors will be subject to a post-vesting holding period of two years. The awards granted to other senior management will be released at vesting.

Each award has been granted in the form of an option with an exercise price per share of £0.05.

If the maximum targets are met in 2028, the total dilutive impact of the 2025 Awards will be c. 0.9%. The maximum aggregate dilutive effect of awards currently in issue that can be exercised under the LTIP remains below 10% of issued share capital.

 

NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM

1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)
Name
Kate Newhouse
2
Reason for the notification
a)
Position/status
Joint Chief Executive Officer
b)
Initial notification /Amendment
Initial notification
3
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)
Name
Kooth plc
b)
LEI
2138001YLGO1L8UYOM90
4
Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code
Ordinary shares of £0.001 each
ISIN:GB00BMCZLK30
b)
Nature of the transaction
Grant of options over ordinary shares under the Company's LTIP
c)
Price(s) and volume(s)
84,000 at nil price point
d)
Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
n/a
e)
Date of the transaction
23 May 2025
f)
Place of the transaction
Off market transaction

 

1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)
Name
Sanjay Jawa
2
Reason for the notification
a)
Position/status
Chief Financial Officer
b)
Initial notification /Amendment
Initial notification
3
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)
Name
Kooth plc
b)
LEI
2138001YLGO1L8UYOM90
4
Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code
Ordinary shares of £0.001 each
ISIN:GB00BMCZLK30
b)
Nature of the transaction
Grant of options over ordinary shares under the Company's LTIP
c)
Price(s) and volume(s)
72,000 at nil price point
d)
Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
n/a
e)
Date of the transaction
23 May 2025
f)
Place of the transaction
Off market transaction

 

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For further information:

Kooth plc
investorrelations@kooth.com
Tim Barker, Joint CEO
 Kate Newhouse, Joint CEO
 Sanjay Jawa, CFO
Stifel, Nominated Adviser & Sole Broker
+44 (0) 20 7710 7600
Ben Maddison, Erik Anderson, Nick Harland, Ben Good
FTI Consulting, Financial PR
Kooth@fticonsulting.com
Ben Atwell, Alex Shaw


 

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