Kier Group Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Recent Insider Transactions

LSE:KIE Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
12 Mar 25	BuyUK£9,937	Alison Atkinson	Individual	7,978	UK£1.25
12 Mar 25	BuyUK£21,675	Clive Watson	Individual	17,500	UK£1.24
11 Mar 25	BuyUK£20,063	Matthew Lester	Individual	16,310	UK£1.23
28 Jun 24	BuyUK£10,018	Matthew Lester	Individual	7,340	UK£1.36

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: KIE insiders have bought more shares than they have sold in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of KIE?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Public Companies	516,419	0.115%
State or Government	839,632	0.187%
Individual Insiders	4,992,849	1.11%
Private Companies	5,312,826	1.18%
Employee Share Scheme	21,182,432	4.72%
General Public	28,420,081	6.33%
Institutions	387,646,848	86.4%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have not been meaningfully diluted in the past year.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 73.52% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
6.82%	Aberdeen Group Plc	30,604,735	UK£52.1m	-9.99%	0.04%
6.21%	UBS Asset Management AG	27,864,277	UK£47.4m	-4.05%	0.01%
6.06%	BlackRock, Inc.	27,200,155	UK£46.3m	-1.93%	no data
5.65%	J O Hambro Capital Management Limited	25,383,170	UK£43.2m	2.43%	0.47%
4.96%	M & G Group Limited	22,257,507	UK£37.9m	0%	100.0%
4.89%	Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Ltd.	21,946,648	UK£37.3m	5.26%	0.11%
3.53%	M&G Investment Management Limited	15,848,438	UK£27.0m	-0.7%	0.07%
3.37%	Schroder Investment Management Limited	15,141,362	UK£25.8m	1.42%	0.02%
2.86%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	12,849,942	UK£21.9m	0%	no data
2.77%	JPMorgan Chase & Co, Private Banking and Investment Banking Investments	12,449,181	UK£21.2m	0.18%	0.01%
2.58%	Janus Henderson Group plc	11,601,338	UK£19.7m	0%	0.01%
2.41%	Kier Group plc AESOP	10,805,862	UK£18.4m	3.11%	100.0%
2.31%	Kier Group plc, ESOP	10,376,570	UK£17.7m	8.03%	no data
2.21%	Polar Capital Holdings Plc	9,900,435	UK£16.8m	0%	0.08%
2.17%	Acadian Asset Management LLC	9,746,636	UK£16.6m	1.99%	0.05%
2.03%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	9,093,809	UK£15.5m	-0.17%	0.01%
1.58%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	7,086,280	UK£12.1m	-1.7%	no data
1.54%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	6,921,047	UK£11.8m	-1.18%	no data
1.53%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	6,889,016	UK£11.7m	-2.17%	no data
1.52%	Lombard Odier Asset Management (Europe) Ltd.	6,808,640	UK£11.6m	0%	0.26%
1.49%	HBOS Investment Fund Managers Limited	6,701,131	UK£11.4m	6.31%	0.1%
1.44%	Charles Stanley & Co. Ltd, Asset Management Arm	6,486,606	UK£11.0m	8%	0.12%
1.21%	Barclays Bank PLC, Wealth and Investment Management Division	5,442,063	UK£9.3m	7.69%	0.09%
1.19%	JP Morgan Asset Management	5,342,990	UK£9.1m	2.62%	no data
1.18%	Equiniti Group Limited	5,312,826	UK£9.0m	4.03%	no data

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/06/06 17:55
End of Day Share Price	2025/06/06 00:00
Earnings	2024/12/31
Annual Earnings	2024/06/30

Data Sources

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Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

Kier Group plc is covered by 18 analysts. 5 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Robert Chantry	Berenberg
Mark Hake	BofA Global Research
Maximillian Hayes	Cavendish