Wesfarmers Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

ASX:WES Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
12 Dec 24	SellAU$2,820,819	Michael Chaney	Individual	37,347	AU$75.53
17 May 24	SellAU$6,090,678	Robert Scott	Individual	89,045	AU$68.40
29 Feb 24	BuyAU$904,608,179	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	Company	13,593,165	AU$66.64
29 Feb 24	SellAU$379,370,688	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	Company	5,738,028	AU$66.64

Insider Trading Volume

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

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of WES?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Public Companies	1,889,278	0.166%
Individual Insiders	3,391,280	0.299%
Institutions	389,067,602	34.3%
General Public	740,665,968	65.3%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 31.63% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
7.14%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	81,052,937	AU$5.9b	18.8%	0.13%
6.04%	BlackRock, Inc.	68,569,781	AU$5.0b	0.13%	0.05%
6%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	68,081,095	AU$4.9b	0%	0.04%
3.89%	Australian Super Pty Ltd	44,193,853	AU$3.2b	0%	2.04%
1.65%	Norges Bank Investment Management	18,748,989	AU$1.4b	0%	0.07%
0.72%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	8,222,455	AU$595.5m	1.17%	0.03%
0.72%	Nt-Comnwlth Super Corp	8,211,959	AU$594.7m	6.31%	5.06%
0.6%	Colonial First State Investments Limited	6,753,810	AU$489.1m	22.9%	3.13%
0.58%	Australian Foundation Investment Company Limited	6,578,000	AU$476.4m	-10.8%	5.1%
0.53%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	5,982,648	AU$433.3m	0.58%	0.04%
0.43%	Netwealth Investments Ltd.	4,924,780	AU$356.7m	3.99%	2.43%
0.43%	IOOF Investment Management Limited	4,871,919	AU$352.8m	172%	10.39%
0.39%	Argo Investments Limited	4,409,027	AU$319.3m	0%	4.19%
0.38%	Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc.	4,339,522	AU$314.3m	3.01%	0.03%
0.34%	BetaShares Capital Limited	3,902,959	AU$282.7m	5%	0.96%
0.33%	JP Morgan Asset Management	3,744,497	AU$271.2m	-0.07%	0.02%
0.23%	UBS Asset Management AG	2,595,983	AU$188.0m	-14.5%	0.01%
0.18%	Mutual Trust Pty Ltd, Asset Management Arm	2,051,080	AU$148.5m	3.64%	6.3%
0.17%	BNY Asset Management	1,937,297	AU$140.3m	-7.9%	0.02%
0.17%	Washington H. Soul Pattinson and Company Limited	1,889,278	AU$136.8m	-10.2%	no data
0.15%	Jupiter Fund Management Plc	1,700,000	AU$123.1m	0%	0.22%
0.15%	Sjunde AP-fonden	1,655,052	AU$119.9m	0%	0.07%
0.14%	Peter Brown	1,556,000	AU$112.7m	0%	no data
0.14%	Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund	1,555,654	AU$112.7m	14.6%	0.02%
0.13%	Franklin Resources, Inc.	1,496,735	AU$108.4m	0.48%	0.02%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/30 21:29
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/30 00:00
Earnings	2024/06/30
Annual Earnings	2024/06/30

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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

Wesfarmers Limited is covered by 29 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
Russell Wright	APP Securities Pty Ltd.
Russell Wright	Barclay Pearce Capital Pty Limited
Thomas Kierath	Barrenjoey Markets Pty Limited