Santos Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

ASX:STO Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
06 Sep 24	BuyAU$140,600	Michael Utsler	Individual	20,000	AU$7.03
23 Aug 24	BuyAU$199,778	John Lydon	Individual	26,997	AU$7.40
22 Aug 24	BuyAU$100,838	Musje Werror	Individual	13,500	AU$7.47
06 Aug 24	BuyAU$304,960,720	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	Company	37,767,545	AU$8.09
06 Aug 24	SellAU$62,275,279	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	Company	7,802,835	AU$7.99
02 May 24	BuyAU$273,792	John Lydon	Individual	36,800	AU$7.44
29 Feb 24	SellAU$1,512,498	Kevin Gallagher	Individual	213,205	AU$7.09
26 Feb 24	BuyAU$19,926	Musje Werror	Individual	2,700	AU$7.38

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 STO?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Individual Insiders	3,941,550	0.122%
Private Companies	7,997,057	0.247%
Institutions	1,172,144,363	36.2%
General Public	2,055,417,562	63.4%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 32.41% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
6.16%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	199,610,157	AU$1.3b	19.6%	0.03%
6.04%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	195,524,747	AU$1.3b	18%	0.01%
3.99%	BlackRock, Inc.	129,387,416	AU$828.1m	0%	0.01%
2.54%	Pendal Group Limited	82,337,248	AU$527.0m	0%	10.39%
2.08%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	67,481,821	AU$431.9m	0.56%	0.04%
1.8%	Colonial First State Investments Limited	58,263,548	AU$372.9m	0%	2.38%
1.33%	Perpetual Limited	43,111,197	AU$275.9m	0%	0.49%
0.89%	Argo Investments Limited	28,904,895	AU$185.0m	0%	2.43%
0.86%	JP Morgan Asset Management	27,718,721	AU$177.4m	-2.97%	0.01%
0.76%	Thompson, Siegel & Walmsley LLC	24,600,659	AU$157.4m	0%	1.12%
0.71%	Nt-Comnwlth Super Corp	22,917,089	AU$146.7m	0%	1.25%
0.7%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	22,744,421	AU$145.6m	0.04%	0.01%
0.61%	Milford Asset Management, LTD	19,757,666	AU$126.4m	0%	1.61%
0.52%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	16,823,844	AU$107.7m	0%	0.01%
0.43%	Australian Foundation Investment Company Limited	13,920,689	AU$89.1m	0%	0.95%
0.4%	BetaShares Capital Limited	12,961,884	AU$83.0m	6.53%	0.28%
0.35%	Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc.	11,239,924	AU$71.9m	1.63%	0.01%
0.33%	Australian Super Pty Ltd	10,804,267	AU$69.1m	0%	0.04%
0.32%	Netwealth Investments Ltd.	10,421,948	AU$66.7m	0%	0.46%
0.31%	Transamerica Asset Management, Inc.	10,023,552	AU$64.2m	-1.06%	0.23%
0.27%	Northern Trust Global Investments	8,856,078	AU$56.7m	2.81%	0.01%
0.26%	Van Eck Associates Corporation	8,525,985	AU$54.6m	0.59%	0.04%
0.25%	Strategic Advisers LLC	8,081,655	AU$51.7m	5%	0.01%
0.25%	CPU Share Plans Pty Limited	7,997,057	AU$51.2m	0%	no data
0.24%	Fidelity International Ltd	7,754,637	AU$49.6m	2.24%	0.01%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/20 02:01
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/20 00:00
Earnings	2024/06/30
Annual Earnings	2023/12/31

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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

Santos Limited is covered by 30 analysts. 13 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
Chris Mears	APP Securities Pty Ltd.
Russell Wright	Barclay Pearce Capital Pty Limited
Dale Koenders	Barrenjoey Markets Pty Limited