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
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
24 Apr 25	BuyUK£30,270	William Whitehorn	Individual	1,911	UK£15.84
11 Sep 24	SellUK£528,000	Craig Preston	Individual	24,000	UK£22.00
11 Sep 24	SellUK£9,322,500	Keith Neilson	Individual	423,750	UK£22.00
11 Sep 24	SellUK£49,500	Isabel Urquhart	Individual	2,250	UK£22.00

Insider Trading Volume

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

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of CRW?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Public Companies	0	0%
Private Companies	214,380	0.61%
Employee Share Scheme	519,185	1.48%
VC/PE Firms	2,749,750	7.82%
Individual Insiders	5,988,781	17%
Institutions	25,672,625	73%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 78.31% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
10.1%	Liontrust Asset Management PLC	3,518,179	UK£72.1m	-4.63%	0.38%
8.79%	Keith Neilson	3,076,603	UK£63.1m	0.58%	no data
7.85%	Octopus Investments Limited	2,749,750	UK£56.4m	3.81%	3.8%
5.9%	William Craig	2,067,734	UK£42.4m	0.58%	no data
5.21%	Aegon Asset Management UK Plc	1,824,779	UK£37.4m	3.08%	0.23%
5.06%	Canaccord Genuity Wealth (International) Ltd.	1,771,358	UK£36.3m	-5.87%	0.65%
4.98%	Aberdeen Group Plc	1,742,869	UK£35.7m	11.1%	0.03%
3.59%	BlackRock, Inc.	1,258,899	UK£25.8m	66.8%	no data
3.28%	Investec Wealth & Investment Limited	1,149,227	UK£23.6m	5.01%	0.27%
3.04%	Rathbones Investment Management Limited	1,063,658	UK£21.8m	-7.26%	0.07%
1.76%	Peel Hunt LLP., Asset Management Arm	614,732	UK£12.6m	0.71%	3.5%
1.68%	Premier Fund Managers Ltd.	589,500	UK£12.1m	0%	0.18%
1.67%	Fidelity International Ltd	584,007	UK£12.0m	-0.65%	0.01%
1.6%	Derek Paterson	561,301	UK£11.5m	0%	no data
1.52%	Herald Investment Management Ltd.	534,000	UK£10.9m	-1.84%	0.89%
1.52%	TimesSquare Capital Management, LLC	530,820	UK£10.9m	-8.4%	0.19%
1.5%	Deka Investment GmbH	525,000	UK£10.8m	0%	0.01%
1.48%	Craneware Plc., Employee Stock Ownership Plan	519,185	UK£10.6m	-1.95%	no data
1.4%	Castlefield Investments	490,000	UK£10.0m	-16.2%	1.99%
1.38%	Brooks MacDonald Asset Management	482,532	UK£9.9m	23.3%	1.27%
1.09%	Swedbank Robur Fonder AB	383,000	UK£7.9m	41.9%	0.01%
1.08%	Royal London Asset Management Ltd.	378,375	UK£7.8m	11.8%	0.01%
1.01%	Canaccord Genuity Asset Management Limited	355,000	UK£7.3m	-5.33%	0.37%
0.94%	Quilter Cheviot Limited	327,781	UK£6.7m	-3.76%	0.06%
0.92%	Evelyn Partners Investment Management LLP	323,836	UK£6.6m	-10.1%	0.09%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/05/16 18:13
End of Day Share Price	2025/05/16 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

Craneware plc is covered by 14 analysts. 6 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
Alexander James Short	Berenberg
Ciaran Donnelly	Berenberg