Appen Limited

ASX:APX Stock Report

Market Cap: AU$241.8m

Appen Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

ASX:APX Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
DateValueNameEntityRoleSharesMax Price
27 Mar 25SellAU$898,510First Sentier Investors (Australia) IM LtdCompany798,321AU$1.13
04 Mar 25BuyAU$13,386,306Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking and Brokerage InvestmentsCompany6,611,787AU$2.02
04 Mar 25SellAU$14,915,498Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking and Brokerage InvestmentsCompany7,123,716AU$2.09
03 Mar 25BuyAU$11,807,204UBS Asset Management AGCompany8,771,657AU$1.35
03 Mar 25SellAU$13,974,398UBS Asset Management AGCompany10,378,791AU$1.35
24 Feb 25BuyAU$10,145,235UBS Asset Management AGCompany3,413,685AU$2.97
24 Feb 25SellAU$14,217,248UBS Asset Management AGCompany4,830,694AU$2.94
20 Feb 25BuyAU$45,110,713UBS Asset Management AGCompany15,532,084AU$2.92
20 Feb 25SellAU$42,629,410UBS Asset Management AGCompany14,724,058AU$2.90
11 Feb 25BuyAU$41,864,852UBS Asset Management AGCompany14,378,746AU$2.91
11 Feb 25SellAU$43,778,479UBS Asset Management AGCompany15,060,208AU$2.91
04 Feb 25BuyAU$659,899,588UBS Asset Management AGCompany275,457,261AU$2.50
04 Feb 25SellAU$632,440,347UBS Asset Management AGCompany263,685,505AU$2.40
03 Feb 25SellAU$7,332State Street Global Advisors, Inc.Company2,864AU$2.56
29 Jan 25BuyAU$215,174First Sentier Investors (Australia) IM LtdCompany82,338AU$2.61
08 Jan 25BuyAU$0State Street Global Advisors, Inc.Company6,097,182AU$3.14
03 Jan 25BuyAU$22,903,700First Sentier Investors (Australia) IM LtdCompany9,407,720AU$2.43
27 Nov 24BuyAU$6,107,013Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking and Brokerage InvestmentsCompany2,370,821AU$2.58
27 Nov 24SellAU$368,870First Sentier Investors (Australia) IM LtdCompany157,866AU$2.34
27 Nov 24SellAU$8,275,692Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking and Brokerage InvestmentsCompany3,467,184AU$2.39
09 Oct 24BuyAU$84,381First Sentier Investors (Australia) IM LtdCompany41,567AU$2.03
30 Sep 24BuyAU$3,226,834Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking and Brokerage InvestmentsCompany1,683,529AU$1.92
30 Sep 24SellAU$3,604,158Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking and Brokerage InvestmentsCompany1,879,391AU$1.92
26 Sep 24BuyAU$151,924First Sentier Investors (Australia) IM LtdCompany81,243AU$1.87
23 Sep 24BuyAU$2,839,999First Sentier Investors (Australia) IM LtdCompany1,762,666AU$1.61
20 Sep 24BuyAU$2,458,663Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking and Brokerage InvestmentsCompany1,578,736AU$1.56
20 Sep 24SellAU$1,826,948Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking and Brokerage InvestmentsCompany1,205,693AU$1.52
10 Sep 24BuyAU$2,070,382First Sentier Investors (Australia) IM LtdCompany1,815,233AU$1.14
02 Sep 24BuyAU$836,319First Sentier Investors (Australia) IM LtdCompany1,101,431AU$1.01

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 APX?
Owner TypeNumber of SharesOwnership Percentage
Private Companies9,383,0613.55%
Individual Insiders26,339,7009.97%
Institutions74,457,42928.2%
General Public154,070,78558.3%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have been diluted in the past year, with total shares outstanding growing by 19.2%.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 41.53% of the company
OwnershipNameSharesCurrent ValueChange %Portfolio %
4.8%
UBS Asset Management AG
12,692,349AU$11.6m51.8%no data
4.33%
Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking and Brokerage Investments
11,454,915AU$10.5m32.9%no data
4.09%
Spheria Asset Management Pty Ltd
10,810,168AU$9.9m0%1.0%
3.78%
Linping Fu
10,000,000AU$9.1m0%no data
3.25%
Christopher Vonwiller
8,600,827AU$7.9m-10.4%no data
3.23%
Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Banking Investments
8,544,350AU$7.8m0%no data
3.07%
JPMorgan Chase & Co, Brokerage and Securities Investments
8,111,613AU$7.4m0%no data
2.92%
State Street Global Advisors, Inc.
7,708,257AU$7.1m9.44%no data
1.51%
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP
3,987,766AU$3.6m-3.54%no data
1.5%
Matthew Wong Investments (Aus) Pty Ltd
3,961,110AU$3.6m41.4%no data
1.45%
Credit Suisse, Investment Banking and Securities Investments
3,844,288AU$3.5m0%0.14%
1.25%
Peng Cheng Investment Pty Ltd
3,315,625AU$3.0m16.3%no data
1.14%
Bo Xu
3,006,576AU$2.8m0%no data
1%
JPMorgan Chase & Co, Private Banking and Investment Banking Investments
2,635,875AU$2.4m0%no data
0.8%
QY Long River Pty Ltd
2,106,326AU$1.9m0%no data
0.76%
First Sentier Investors (Australia) IM Ltd
2,005,608AU$1.8m-46.1%no data
0.74%
Lu Hua
1,961,042AU$1.8m-33%no data
0.66%
Bank of America Corporation, Asset Management Arm
1,731,225AU$1.6m0%no data
0.55%
Guoxin Hu
1,450,000AU$1.3m20.8%no data
0.25%
BetaShares Capital Limited
650,439AU$595.1k15.2%no data
0.1%
Armughan Ahmad
277,041AU$253.5k0%no data
0.1%
Robin Low
272,676AU$249.5k6.08%no data
0.086%
Norges Bank Investment Management
227,504AU$208.2k0%no data
0.073%
Ryan Kolln
194,201AU$177.7k0%no data
0.071%
Justin Miles
188,502AU$172.5k430%no data

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2025/04/12 15:00
End of Day Share Price 2025/04/11 00:00
Earnings2024/12/31
Annual Earnings2024/12/31

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.

PackageDataTimeframeExample US Source *
Company Financials10 years
  • Income statement
  • Cash flow statement
  • Balance sheet
Analyst Consensus Estimates+3 years
  • Forecast financials
  • Analyst price targets
Market Prices30 years
  • Stock prices
  • Dividends, Splits and Actions
Ownership10 years
  • Top shareholders
  • Insider trading
Management10 years
  • Leadership team
  • Board of directors
Key Developments10 years
  • Company announcements

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Analyst Sources

Appen Limited is covered by 13 analysts. 5 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

AnalystInstitution
Josh KannourakisBarrenjoey Markets Pty Limited
Ware KuoBofA Global Research
Conor O’PreyCanaccord Genuity