BT Group Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

LSE:BT.A Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
04 Aug 25	SellUK£195,430	John Watson	Individual	93,507	UK£2.09
04 Aug 25	SellUK£438,622	Simon Lowth	Individual	209,867	UK£2.09
08 Nov 24	BuyUK£47,600	Tushar Morzaria	Individual	35,000	UK£1.36

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: BT.A insiders have only sold shares in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of BT.A?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Individual Insiders	4,017,956	0.041%
State or Government	7,828,220	0.08%
Employee Share Scheme	93,981,606	0.96%
Private Companies	1,141,584,321	11.7%
General Public	1,280,603,370	13.1%
Institutions	3,622,827,428	37%
Public Companies	3,639,225,594	37.2%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 74.52% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
24.9%	Bharti Airtel Limited	2,438,712,571	UK£5.3b	0%	no data
12.2%	Deutsche Telekom AG	1,196,175,322	UK£2.6b	0%	no data
6.5%	BT Group Plc, Shareview Clients	635,981,964	UK£1.4b	8.55%	no data
4.05%	Control Empresarial de Capitales SA de CV	396,776,674	UK£859.0m	-2.14%	no data
3.25%	BlackRock, Inc.	318,424,235	UK£689.4m	-13.4%	0.01%
3.04%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	297,144,195	UK£643.3m	3.2%	0.01%
2.19%	UBS Asset Management AG	214,887,027	UK£465.2m	-0.98%	0.05%
2.16%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	211,875,366	UK£458.7m	-1.25%	0.13%
1.81%	T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	177,167,598	UK£383.6m	12.1%	0.04%
1.68%	Aberdeen Group Plc	164,736,117	UK£356.7m	-1.51%	0.26%
1.48%	Schroder Investment Management Limited	144,815,595	UK£313.5m	-1.73%	0.21%
1.47%	Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Ltd.	143,806,057	UK£311.3m	-2.44%	0.84%
1.25%	HBOS Investment Fund Managers Limited	122,373,459	UK£264.9m	-1.45%	2.1%
1.11%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	109,071,224	UK£236.1m	0%	0.04%
0.96%	RWC Partners Limited	94,215,912	UK£204.0m	0%	2.29%
0.96%	British Telecom Employee Share Scheme	93,981,606	UK£203.5m	-0.64%	no data
0.93%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	91,446,408	UK£198.0m	-20.4%	0.1%
0.71%	Equiniti Group Limited	69,444,151	UK£150.3m	0.07%	no data
0.6%	Barclays Bank PLC, Wealth and Investment Management Division	58,491,486	UK£126.6m	-61.5%	1.23%
0.57%	Capital Research and Management Company	56,289,141	UK£121.9m	184%	0.01%
0.56%	Lansdowne Partners Limited	55,066,609	UK£119.2m	-0.22%	3.28%
0.55%	Wellington Management Group LLP	53,611,252	UK£116.1m	7.21%	0.02%
0.54%	Norges Bank Investment Management	52,915,940	UK£114.6m	186%	0.01%
0.52%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	51,240,484	UK£110.9m	-33.3%	0.03%
0.48%	DZ BANK AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, Frankfurt am Main, Asset Management Arm	46,509,035	UK£100.7m	0%	1.02%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/08/29 23:56
End of Day Share Price	2025/08/29 00:00
Earnings	2025/03/31
Annual Earnings	2025/03/31

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.

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

BT Group plc is covered by 51 analysts. 15 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
Jean-Michel Salvador	AlphaValue
Andrew Charles Beale	Arete Research Services LLP
John Davies	Banco Santander