Metro Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

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 B4B?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Public Companies	3,565,205	0.982%
General Public	34,661,846	9.55%
Institutions	49,130,229	13.5%
Private Companies	275,739,973	75.9%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have been substantially diluted in the past year, with total shares outstanding growing by 12102.8%.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 90.17% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
49.6%	EP Global Commerce GmbH	180,099,375	CHF 887.5m	22%	no data
17.4%	Palatin Verwaltungsgesellschaft Mbh	63,233,640	CHF 311.6m	0%	no data
8.93%	EP Global Commerce II GmbH	32,406,958	CHF 159.7m	0%	no data
6.39%	Beisheim Holding GmbH	23,195,577	CHF 114.3m	0%	no data
1.37%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	4,958,513	CHF 24.4m	1.45%	no data
1.07%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	3,883,084	CHF 19.1m	-0.37%	no data
0.98%	Ceconomy AG	3,565,205	CHF 17.6m	0%	no data
0.98%	Meridian Stiftung, Endowment Arm	3,565,205	CHF 17.6m	0%	no data
0.72%	Norges Bank Investment Management	2,604,327	CHF 12.8m	0%	no data
0.52%	BlackRock, Inc.	1,875,800	CHF 9.2m	-10.2%	no data
0.48%	Magallanes Value Investors, S.A., SGIIC	1,730,871	CHF 8.5m	0%	0.92%
0.29%	Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc.	1,050,883	CHF 5.2m	-10.1%	no data
0.29%	American Century Investment Management Inc	1,045,403	CHF 5.2m	32.1%	no data
0.23%	WSS Vermögensmanagement GmbH	840,948	CHF 4.1m	0%	5.51%
0.15%	VM Vermogens-Management GmbH	554,870	CHF 2.7m	0%	1.06%
0.14%	J O Hambro Capital Management Limited	517,000	CHF 2.5m	0%	0.03%
0.12%	Commerzbank AG, Asset Management Arm	419,881	CHF 2.1m	-0.18%	0.03%
0.094%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	340,942	CHF 1.7m	2.23%	no data
0.075%	UBS Asset Management AG	271,548	CHF 1.3m	75.2%	no data
0.074%	Amundi Asset Management SAS	270,333	CHF 1.3m	-1.43%	no data
0.068%	FPS Vermoegensverwaltung GmbH	246,400	CHF 1.2m	0%	3.45%
0.066%	Warburg Invest Kapitalanlage GmbH	240,000	CHF 1.2m	0%	0.04%
0.048%	Monega Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH	176,000	CHF 867.3k	0%	0.17%
0.043%	Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management	156,919	CHF 773.3k	0%	no data
0.043%	Forsta AP-fonden	156,449	CHF 771.0k	0%	no data

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/04/28 09:20
End of Day Share Price	2025/04/22 00:00
Earnings	2024/12/31
Annual Earnings	2024/09/30

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

Metro AG is covered by 20 analysts. 4 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
Peter Steiner	Bankhaus Lampe KG
Laura Janssens	Berenberg
Andrew Gwynn	BNP Paribas Exane