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HEIGHHTENED ACTIVITY IN FARSONS SHARES
The MSE equity price index extended Wednesday's decline as it slipped by a further 0.81% to 3,630.753 points.
The declines in four companies outweighed the gains in M&Z and MPC while APS and MIA traded flat.
Trading activity increased considerably to €0.22 million compared to €0.07 million on Wednesday. Simonds Farsons Cisk plc was the most actively traded equity on Thursday as it eased by 0.6% to the €7.90 level across 17,006 shares having a market value of €0.13 million.
On Wednesday, Farsons published its interim results showing record performance with revenues increasing by 7.6% over its previous high in H1 2019/20 to €57.3 million and net profits surging to just above €7 million.
Farsons also declared a net interim dividend of 4c5 per share which is payable on October 19 to all shareholders as at close of trading on October 3.
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