Craneware plc

AIM:CRW Stock Report

Market Cap: UK£826.5m

Craneware Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

AIM:CRW Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
DateValueNameEntityRoleSharesMax Price
11 Jun 25BuyUK£410,687BlackRock, Inc.Company20,768UK£19.90
10 Jun 25SellUK£878,815Quilter Cheviot LimitedCompany43,113UK£20.38
10 Jun 25SellUK£40,400Liontrust Asset Management PLCCompany2,000UK£20.20
10 Jun 25SellUK£16,149Brooks MacDonald Asset ManagementCompany805UK£20.46
09 Jun 25BuyUK£567,928Gresham House Asset Management LimitedCompany27,370UK£20.75
09 Jun 25BuyUK£123Quilter Cheviot LimitedCompany6UK£20.57
09 Jun 25SellUK£5,740Quilter Cheviot LimitedCompany280UK£20.50
09 Jun 25SellUK£6,359Brooks MacDonald Asset ManagementCompany309UK£20.58
06 Jun 25BuyUK£1,763Quilter Cheviot LimitedCompany85UK£20.74
06 Jun 25SellUK£6,480Quilter Cheviot LimitedCompany315UK£20.57
05 Jun 25SellUK£5,592Quilter Cheviot LimitedCompany273UK£20.48
05 Jun 25SellUK£10,116Brooks MacDonald Asset ManagementCompany492UK£20.57
04 Jun 25SellUK£21,000Liontrust Asset Management PLCCompany1,000UK£21.00
04 Jun 25SellUK£509Evelyn Partners Group LimitedCompany24UK£21.20
03 Jun 25BuyUK£3,859Evelyn Partners Group LimitedCompany180UK£21.44
02 Jun 25BuyUK£17,573Quilter Cheviot LimitedCompany861UK£20.41
02 Jun 25BuyUK£4,410BlackRock, Inc.Company210UK£21.00
02 Jun 25BuyUK£21,420Evelyn Partners Group LimitedCompany1,050UK£20.40
02 Jun 25SellUK£2,926Brooks MacDonald Asset ManagementCompany143UK£20.46
02 Jun 25SellUK£244Quilter Cheviot LimitedCompany12UK£20.35
02 Jun 25SellUK£7,290Evelyn Partners Group LimitedCompany357UK£20.42
30 May 25BuyUK£5,997Evelyn Partners Group LimitedCompany290UK£20.68
30 May 25BuyUK£19,879BlackRock, Inc.Company989UK£20.10
30 May 25SellUK£68,785Evelyn Partners Group LimitedCompany3,350UK£20.60
30 May 25SellUK£16,964BlackRock, Inc.Company844UK£20.10
29 May 25BuyUK£216,441Evelyn Partners Group LimitedCompany10,524UK£20.70
29 May 25BuyUK£513,125Gresham House Asset Management LimitedCompany25,000UK£20.53
29 May 25SellUK£10,702Brooks MacDonald Asset ManagementCompany520UK£20.58
29 May 25SellUK£111,322Liontrust Asset Management PLCCompany5,404UK£20.60
28 May 25BuyUK£468,294Aegon Asset Management UK PlcCompany23,012UK£20.35
28 May 25BuyUK£2,856BlackRock, Inc.Company140UK£20.40
28 May 25SellUK£8,208Brooks MacDonald Asset ManagementCompany401UK£20.47
28 May 25SellUK£1,838Evelyn Partners Group LimitedCompany90UK£20.42
27 May 25BuyUK£3,266Evelyn Partners Group LimitedCompany160UK£20.41
27 May 25SellUK£34,317Brooks MacDonald Asset ManagementCompany1,715UK£20.01
27 May 25SellUK£38,351Liontrust Asset Management PLCCompany1,908UK£20.10
23 May 25BuyUK£3,567Evelyn Partners Group LimitedCompany170UK£20.98
23 May 25BuyUK£685Quilter Cheviot LimitedCompany33UK£20.75
23 May 25SellUK£22,952Evelyn Partners Group LimitedCompany1,109UK£20.82
23 May 25SellUK£10,310Quilter Cheviot LimitedCompany500UK£20.62
23 May 25SellUK£8,189Brooks MacDonald Asset ManagementCompany393UK£20.85
23 May 25SellUK£116,194Liontrust Asset Management PLCCompany5,668UK£20.50
22 May 25SellUK£1,884Brooks MacDonald Asset ManagementCompany90UK£20.93
21 May 25SellUK£41,426Brooks MacDonald Asset ManagementCompany1,917UK£21.61
21 May 25SellUK£858Quilter Cheviot LimitedCompany41UK£20.93
21 May 25SellUK£12,404Evelyn Partners Group LimitedCompany574UK£21.61
20 May 25SellUK£1,723Evelyn Partners Group LimitedCompany79UK£21.81
19 May 25SellUK£1,380Brooks MacDonald Asset ManagementCompany63UK£21.91
19 May 25SellUK£5,560JPMorgan Chase & Co, Private Banking and Investment Banking InvestmentsCompany251UK£22.15
16 May 25BuyUK£55,294JPMorgan Chase & Co, Private Banking and Investment Banking InvestmentsCompany2,502UK£22.10
16 May 25BuyUK£324,964BlackRock, Inc.Company14,612UK£22.24
16 May 25SellUK£49,957JPMorgan Chase & Co, Private Banking and Investment Banking InvestmentsCompany2,251UK£22.19
16 May 25SellUK£486,220BlackRock, Inc.Company21,655UK£23.23
24 Apr 25BuyUK£30,270William WhitehornIndividual1,911UK£15.84
11 Sep 24SellUK£528,000Craig PrestonIndividual24,000UK£22.00
11 Sep 24SellUK£9,322,500Keith NeilsonIndividual423,750UK£22.00
11 Sep 24SellUK£49,500Isabel UrquhartIndividual2,250UK£22.00

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: Insufficient data to determine if insiders have bought more shares than they have sold in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of CRW?
Owner TypeNumber of SharesOwnership Percentage
Public Companies158,8520.443%
Private Companies227,6370.635%
Employee Share Scheme506,2571.41%
VC/PE Firms2,755,6447.69%
Individual Insiders6,206,86317.3%
Institutions25,989,63472.5%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 78.61% of the company
OwnershipNameSharesCurrent ValueChange %Portfolio %
9.32%
Liontrust Asset Management PLC
3,262,178UK£77.0m-11.4%0.44%
9.07%
Keith Neilson
3,175,602UK£74.9m3.22%no data
7.87%
Octopus Investments Limited
2,755,644UK£65.0m4.03%4.64%
6.05%
Rathbones Investment Management Limited
2,119,670UK£50.0m84.6%0.12%
5.91%
William Craig
2,068,666UK£48.8m0.63%no data
5.28%
Aegon Asset Management UK Plc
1,847,692UK£43.6m0.97%0.27%
4.99%
Canaccord Genuity Wealth (International) Ltd.
1,748,311UK£41.3m1.21%0.77%
4.89%
Aberdeen Group Plc
1,711,639UK£40.4m6.77%0.03%
2.54%
BlackRock, Inc.
891,097UK£21.0m-24.9%no data
2.4%
Derek Paterson
840,845UK£19.8m49.8%no data
1.74%
Fidelity International Ltd
607,957UK£14.3m3.27%0.01%
1.52%
Herald Investment Management Ltd.
534,000UK£12.6m0%1.04%
1.5%
Deka Investment GmbH
525,000UK£12.4m0%0.01%
1.49%
Peel Hunt LLP., Asset Management Arm
520,516UK£12.3m-16.3%4.03%
1.45%
Craneware Plc., Employee Stock Ownership Plan
506,257UK£11.9m-2.49%no data
1.4%
Sanford DeLand Asset Management Limited
490,000UK£11.6m376%no data
1.33%
Gresham House Asset Management Limited
466,149UK£11.0m76.5%0.69%
1.33%
Castlefield Investments
465,000UK£11.0m-20.5%2.25%
1.31%
Brooks MacDonald Asset Management
458,641UK£10.8m23.5%1.53%
1.3%
Evelyn Partners Group Limited
455,020UK£10.7m0%1.44%
1.28%
Evelyn Partners Investment Management LLP
448,599UK£10.6m25.7%0.14%
1.28%
Swedbank Robur Fonder AB
448,390UK£10.6m44.6%0.01%
1.22%
TimesSquare Capital Management, LLC
428,040UK£10.1m-23.1%0.19%
1.09%
Danske Capital Denmark
382,154UK£9.0m35.4%0.05%
1.06%
Canaccord Genuity Asset Management Limited
370,000UK£8.7m4.23%0.47%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2025/08/11 11:08
End of Day Share Price 2025/08/08 00:00
Earnings2024/12/31
Annual Earnings2024/06/30

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

PackageDataTimeframeExample US Source *
Company Financials10 years
  • Income statement
  • Cash flow statement
  • Balance sheet
Analyst Consensus Estimates+3 years
  • Forecast financials
  • Analyst price targets
Market Prices30 years
  • Stock prices
  • Dividends, Splits and Actions
Ownership10 years
  • Top shareholders
  • Insider trading
Management10 years
  • Leadership team
  • Board of directors
Key Developments10 years
  • Company announcements

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Analyst Sources

Craneware plc is covered by 17 analysts. 7 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

AnalystInstitution
Robert ChantryBerenberg
Alexander James ShortBerenberg
Ciaran DonnellyBerenberg