Kainos Group PLC — Director's Dealing 2026

Mar 17, 2026

National Storage Mechanism | Additional information

RNS Number : 9930W

Kainos Group plc

17 March 2026

17 March 2026

Kainos Group plc

("Kainos" or the "Company") 

Director/PDMR shareholdings

The Company has been notified of the following transaction in its ordinary Shares by a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR"):

On 13 March 2026, Brendan Mooney, Chief Executive Officer, exercised share options granted between 2016 and 2021, under the Company's annual PSP Scheme. Brendan Mooney retained the ordinary shares on exercise.

Following this notification, Brendan Mooney and his Persons Closely Associated (PCAs) (including MF LP) have a reportable shareholding of 10,736,558 ordinary shares, representing 9.09% of the Company's 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

Brendan Mooney

2.         

Reason for the notification

a.         

Position/status

CEO

b.         

"Initial notification" vs "Amendment"

Initial notification

3.         

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a.         

Name

Kainos Group plc

b.         

LEI

213800H2PQMIF3OVZY47

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 £0.005 each

(ISIN: GB00BZ0D6727)/KNOS

b.         

Nature of the transaction

Exercise of share options granted annually from and including 2016 up to and including 2021, under the Company's PSP schemes and retention of shares.

c.         

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)	Volume(s)
£0.005	117, 496

d.         

Aggregated information

·      Aggregated volume

·      Price

e.         

Date of the transaction

13-03-26

f.         

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue (XOFF)

Kainos Group plc Legal Entity Identifier: 213800H2PQMIF3OVZY47 

Ends

For further information, please contact:

Kainos                                                                                                    via FTI Consulting LLP

Brendan Mooney, Chief Executive Officer

Richard McCann, Chief Financial Officer

Investec Bank plc                                                                                +44 20 7597 5970

Patrick Robb / Nick Prowting / Arnav Kapoor

FTI Consulting LLP                                                                                 +44 20 3727 1000

Dwight Burden / Kwaku Aning

About Kainos Group plc

Kainos Group plc is a UK-headquartered provider of sophisticated IT services to major public sector, commercial and healthcare customers and a developer of software applications. Our shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: KNOS).

Our expertise spans three divisions: Digital Services, Workday Services, and Workday Products.

Digital Services

Our Digital Services customers face a range of business challenges, including the need to improve their customer service, reduce costs and increase productivity. We help them to solve these problems by developing and supporting custom digital service platforms. Our solutions enable customers and their users to work smarter, faster and better, while ensuring the platforms are secure, accessible and cost effective.

Workday Services

We are a respected partner to Workday Inc., providing a comprehensive range of services to support customers deploying Workday's Finance, HR and Planning products. Our experience in complex deployments means we are trusted to launch, test, expand and support Workday systems.

Workday Products

We have developed proprietary software products that complement Workday by enhancing our customers' system security and compliance and improving their document generation and storage. Over 600 global customers use one or more of our products, with adoption growing rapidly.

Our people

Our people are central to our success. We employ more than 3,100 people in 18 countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas. 

Find out more

You can discover more about us at www.kainos.com.

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