Stobart Group Ltd (LON:STOB) said its energy and aviation divisions are traded in line with expectations over the last six months, while its infrastructure arm performed ahead of expectations.
In other news, investors in Sirius Minerals PLC (AIM: SXX, OTCQX: SRUXY) can stop holding their breath.
The window for all appeals against the company’s giant fertiliser mine has slammed shut.
Over at Sound Energy PLC (LON:SOU) ittold investors that the second well at its Tendrara gas project in Morocco has been drilled through the salt cap to the second casing point.
The Tendrara 7 well (TE-7) has now been drilled to a measured vertical depth of 2,203 metres, and casing has now been set and cemented at the top of the Triassic Lower Salt formation.
Meanwhile, Tower Resources PLC (LON:TRP) has raised £1.03mln of new capital, through a share placing, and has told investors it hopes to bring farm-out talks to a conclusion.
It has agreed to sell 45.9mln new shares, priced at 2.25p, to what it referred to as ‘certain investors including some of our shareholders and directors’ through a non-brokered placing.
Over at Deltex Medical Group plc (LON:DEMG) it has seen revenues from the US overtake its core National Health Service market for the first time.
Revenues in the half-year to June were flat at £2.7mln, but the mix switched in favour of the US where sales of its surgical blood flow probes jumped 39% to £0.8mln.
Elsewhere, Avation PLC (LON:AVAP), the UK-quoted plane leasing specialist, has reported record revenues and profit and says it's upbeat on future growth.
The firm rents out aircraft to airlines around the world, including Thomas Cook and Virgin, and it currently has a fleet of 38 planes.
Next, Motif Bio Plc (LON:MTFB) reported that patient enrolment for REVIVE-1, one of its two Phase 3 clinical trials, has exceeded projections.
Data readout is now expected in the second quarter of 2017, rather than the second half of 2017, as previously stated.
And finally, Harvest Minerals Ltd (LON:HMI) has been given the environmental green-light for its proposed mining operation at the Arapuá phosphate fertiliser project in Brazil.
In a stock market statement the company told investors that its Brazilian subsidiary has been granted the State Autorização Ambiental de Funcionamento (AAF) environmental licence for the project.