QinetiQ Group Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

LSE:QQ. Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Role	Shares	Max Price
21 Jul 25	BuyUK£49,746	Martin Cooper	Individual		9,857	UK£5.05

Insider Trading Volume

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

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of QQ.?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Public Companies	137,686	0.0255%
Employee Share Scheme	8,588,085	1.59%
Private Companies	14,446,719	2.67%
General Public	33,866,934	6.26%
Individual Insiders	71,855,577	13.3%
Institutions	411,951,982	76.2%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 71.57% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
13.1%	Christopher Harborne	70,644,661	UK£351.0m	0%	no data
8.13%	Schroder Investment Management Limited	43,984,395	UK£218.5m	-13.6%	0.15%
5.2%	BlackRock, Inc.	28,150,452	UK£139.9m	-19.8%	no data
5.19%	Franklin Resources, Inc.	28,049,040	UK£139.4m	-0.2%	0.06%
4.72%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	25,519,202	UK£126.8m	-1.48%	no data
3.85%	Capital Research and Management Company	20,843,959	UK£103.6m	99%	0.01%
3.25%	M&G Investment Management Limited	17,587,061	UK£87.4m	94%	0.2%
2.34%	Aviva Investors Global Services Ltd.	12,678,670	UK£63.0m	165%	0.1%
2.3%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	12,430,118	UK£61.8m	34.3%	0.03%
1.85%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	9,990,373	UK£49.6m	-9.54%	no data
1.84%	Aberdeen Group Plc	9,952,393	UK£49.4m	-14.1%	0.04%
1.77%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	9,598,763	UK£47.7m	-3.8%	0.01%
1.71%	QinetiQ Group Plc, Shareview Clients	9,231,727	UK£45.9m	-2.64%	no data
1.64%	Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Ltd.	8,872,846	UK£44.1m	11.6%	0.12%
1.59%	QinetiQ Group plc, ESOP	8,588,085	UK£42.7m	-13.3%	no data
1.59%	Martin Currie Ltd.	8,574,500	UK£42.6m	-28.4%	0.7%
1.57%	Norges Bank Investment Management	8,517,332	UK£42.3m	2.69%	no data
1.52%	Van Eck Associates Corporation	8,206,327	UK£40.8m	39.4%	0.05%
1.46%	Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P.	7,915,523	UK£39.3m	9.78%	0.01%
1.35%	JP Morgan Asset Management	7,298,288	UK£36.3m	-35.9%	no data
1.31%	FMR LLC	7,073,798	UK£35.1m	-7.96%	no data
1.24%	LSV Asset Management	6,701,160	UK£33.3m	-20.3%	0.09%
1.09%	Janus Henderson Group plc	5,870,346	UK£29.2m	-10.9%	0.01%
1.03%	Fidelity International Ltd	5,567,954	UK£27.7m	31%	0.01%
0.96%	Equiniti Group Limited	5,214,992	UK£25.9m	2.72%	no data

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/07/31 23:57
End of Day Share Price	2025/07/31 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

^* Example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

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Analyst Sources

QinetiQ Group plc is covered by 27 analysts. 8 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
Joseph Campbell	Barclays
Milene Kerner	Barclays
Andrew Gollan	Berenberg