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Future plc Stock: price and insider trades · United Kingdom
No insider purchase over the last 90 days. The latest, by Ivana Kirkbride, was filed 05 Feb 2026.
Future plc: what insiders have been doing
Future plc is a Media & Communication company. Its directors and officers file their transactions with RNS (LSE). Between 18 October 2025 and 18 October 2026, 7 insiders published 17 filings.
Both sides are active: 5 purchases worth €144k and 3 sales, from 5 insiders and 3 insiders respectively. No amount is published for 3 filings, which the totals therefore leave out. Buying on the open market means paying the going price with one's own funds, a different act from receiving shares as pay. The buyers include 3 board members, 1 finance chief and 1 chief executive. Kevin Li Ying filed the largest purchase, €57k, on 15 December 2025.
The data flag 4 purchases as part of a group of insiders buying within 30 days of each other. Purchases made close together by different insiders form what is called a cluster. The clock since the last published purchase (5 February 2026) now reads 255 days. Typically, a trade is published a median of 4 days after it takes place. The legal deadline for notifying a trade is three business days (UK MAR).
For context, the typical company on the same exchange (median of 831 companies) published 6 filings over the same period, against 17 filings here. The full history, which starts in 2023, counts 8 purchases against 7 sales.
Other companies in the same sector with recent insider buying flagged by our signals: Globalstar, Inc. and Liberty Latin America Ltd. This summary is built from RNS (LSE) disclosures alone and does not predict where the share price will go.
Insider Decl.
28
Thresholds
n/a
Buy Volume
€322,131
8 ops. · all time
Sell Volume
€517,837
7 ops. · all time
Who traded when
BuySaleSharjeel Suleman2 buys3 sales
Kevin Li Ying2 buys1 sale
Ivana Kirkbride1 buy
Mark Brooker1 buy
Meredith Amdur1 buy
Since the insiders bought
- -30.9%Entry £4.57 · Close 16 Oct 2026 £3.16
- -40.0%Entry £5.27 · Close 16 Oct 2026 £3.16
- -40.0%Entry £5.27 · Close 16 Oct 2026 £3.16
Entry is the close on the day after publication, the first price a reader could act on. Prices in the listing currency. Past moves are not a forecast.
This score ranks the purchase within its own market. A position size is suggested only on the venues of the backtested strategy universe; elsewhere, signals stay on watch. Not investment advice.
Fundamental score
Ranked 1,704 of 23,476 companies
76.5
score / 100
Value97
Quality56
FCF yld37%
Earn yld24%
EV/EBITDA3.2x
ROE3.5%
Gross mgn45%
Net mgn9.0%
Debt/EBITDA1.8x
Pillars2/3
Transparent value + quality ranking, distinct from the insider signal.
Financial data
as of FY 2025FY ended September 2025 · cache
£3.09
Analyst consensus
9 analysts2.22/5
£2.85Target £4.44(+44%)£7.40
Income statement
Revenue£739.2M
Gross profit£329M45% margin
EBITDA£189.8M26% margin
Net income£66.3M5.1% margin
Valuation
PER (trailing)8.4x
PER (forward)297.0x
P/Book28.7x
Beta1.31
Balance sheet & cash
Market cap£273.8M
Total debt£337.3M
Free Cash Flow£101.1M
Debt / Equity39%
Profitability & ownership
ROE3.5%
ROA4.5%
% insiders5.4%
% institutions80.2%
Last declaration on 16 May 2026
Declarations28 total
0London Stock ExchangeISIN GB00BYZN9041RNS:9571506
0London Stock ExchangeRNS:651fde3d-e556-4396-a1b3-30cb57b7057c
3 sharesLondon Stock ExchangeRNS:7be10e5c-14ac-4c97-84cb-17147222e7b8-0
6 sharesLondon Stock ExchangeRNS:7be10e5c-14ac-4c97-84cb-17147222e7b8-1
12 shares@ £6.015810.2% of flowLondon Stock ExchangeRNS:7be10e5c-14ac-4c97-84cb-17147222e7b8-2
11 shares@ £9.597315.4% of flowLondon Stock ExchangeRNS:7be10e5c-14ac-4c97-84cb-17147222e7b8-3
124 shares@ £4.3218100.0% of flowLondon Stock ExchangeRNS:7be10e5c-14ac-4c97-84cb-17147222e7b8-4
1,000 shares@ £5.18100.0% of flowLondon Stock ExchangeRNS:fb584bb6-8f0b-4d6c-a27f-76a9d4e292cb
Canonical exit: 5 May 2026 (T+90)
0London Stock ExchangeRNS:45cea4d0-6e27-4017-aa27-2538e20794b1
64,305 sharesLondonRNS:4c4f7290-87a5-42c7-80f2-498c8010a056-0
32,152 sharesLondonRNS:4c4f7290-87a5-42c7-80f2-498c8010a056-1
105,433 sharesLondonRNS:03428c0a-e612-49df-925b-5d49b8f1d0ea-0
52,716 sharesLondonRNS:03428c0a-e612-49df-925b-5d49b8f1d0ea-1
7,201 shares@ £5.5263100.0% of flowLondon Stock ExchangeRNS:b7085c3e-6110-429e-8fe7-0174159c58a8-2
Canonical exit: 12 Mar 2026 (T+90)
9,029 shares@ £5.508632.3% of flowLondon Stock ExchangeRNS:b7085c3e-6110-429e-8fe7-0174159c58a8-0
Canonical exit: 12 Mar 2026 (T+90)
1,185 shares@ £5.49100.0% of flowLondon Stock ExchangeRNS:b7085c3e-6110-429e-8fe7-0174159c58a8-3
Canonical exit: 11 Mar 2026 (T+90)
4,557 shares@ £5.458532.5% of flowLondon Stock ExchangeRNS:b7085c3e-6110-429e-8fe7-0174159c58a8-1
Canonical exit: 11 Mar 2026 (T+90)
15,449 shares@ £6.472567.7% of flowLondon Stock ExchangeRNS:5665239
Canonical exit: 20 Aug 2025 (T+90)
7,682 shares@ £6.475367.5% of flowLondon Stock ExchangeRNS:5665240
Canonical exit: 20 Aug 2025 (T+90)
43,103 sharesLondonRNS:5664250
0London Stock ExchangeRNS:5664246
24,610 sharesLondonRNS:5475214-0
9,458 sharesLondonRNS:5475214-1
70,705 sharesLondonRNS:5467993
36,465 sharesLondonRNS:5356780
Canonical exit: 18 Dec 2024 (T+90)
25 of 28 declarations
About Future plc
Future plc is a UK-listed specialist media group quoted on the London Stock Exchange (FTSE 100/250/AIM) in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1985, the company has evolved from a print magazine publisher into a multi-format media platform combining digital content, magazines, newsletters, video, events, licensing and performance-led advertising solutions. Its headquarters are in the United Kingdom, and the business has a broad international footprint, with particularly strong exposure to the UK and the US.
Future’s investment case is built around high-intent audiences and diversified monetisation. The group operates a portfolio of well-known brands across technology, gaming, lifestyle, home, wellbeing and heritage publishing. Its better-known brands include TechRadar, Tom’s Guide, Tom’s Hardware, PC Gamer, GamesRadar+, Who What Wear, Marie Claire, Homes & Gardens and The Week. This breadth gives Future access to multiple audience segments while offering advertisers targeted, measurable and commercially relevant environments.
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From a competitive standpoint, Future differentiates itself through editorial depth, search-led audience acquisition, first-party data and strong product recommendation capability. The company describes itself as an intent-led specialist media platform, monetised through advertising, affiliate commerce, direct consumer revenue and magazine sales/subscriptions. Recent company materials indicate that Future now operates more than 175 specialist media brands and is investing in audience intelligence tools such as Helix to improve ad targeting and outcomes. The strategic direction is clear: strengthen conversion, deepen monetisation and reduce reliance on any single revenue stream.
Recent developments underline a continued focus on operational transformation. In its latest results and trading updates, Future highlighted a still-challenging advertising backdrop, but also improvement in selected growth areas, especially in the US, alongside resilience in e-commerce and premium magazines. The group has also continued to streamline its brand portfolio and refine its operating structure into more clearly defined divisions to improve execution and capital discipline. For investors, Future remains a media asset with meaningful exposure to digital monetisation, affiliate commerce and the structural shift toward specialist, data-driven content businesses.
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