Essity 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 ESW?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Individual Insiders	4,026,883	0.594%
General Public	330,118,740	48.7%
Institutions	343,895,140	50.7%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 46.8% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
11.6%	AB Industrivärden (publ)	78,900,000	CHF 1.9b	1.15%	10.35%
5.62%	T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	38,117,997	CHF 901.7m	0%	0.09%
3.99%	BlackRock, Inc.	27,029,125	CHF 639.4m	0%	0.01%
3.48%	Swedbank Robur Fonder AB	23,563,853	CHF 557.4m	0%	0.44%
3.12%	Norges Bank Investment Management	21,176,192	CHF 501.0m	38.9%	0.04%
3.07%	Handelsbanken Asset Management	20,791,635	CHF 491.9m	0%	1.06%
2.73%	Vanguard Capital Management, LLC	18,478,120	CHF 437.1m	1.05%	0.01%
2.66%	Carnegie Fonder AB	18,019,417	CHF 426.3m	0%	10.43%
1.81%	Nordea Investment Management, AB	12,248,737	CHF 289.8m	0%	0.19%
1.43%	AMF Fonder AB	9,702,763	CHF 229.5m	0%	0.69%
0.93%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	6,319,518	CHF 149.5m	1.71%	0.01%
0.92%	Skandia Fonder AB	6,237,490	CHF 147.6m	0%	43.13%
0.77%	Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company	5,193,896	CHF 122.9m	0.41%	0.02%
0.73%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	4,982,640	CHF 117.9m	14.8%	0.02%
0.57%	Deka Investment GmbH	3,838,049	CHF 90.8m	0%	0.08%
0.49%	Amundi Asset Management SAS	3,328,532	CHF 78.7m	-13.4%	0.01%
0.45%	Karl Åberg	3,023,398	CHF 71.5m	112%	no data
0.4%	Vanguard Asset Management, Limited	2,730,289	CHF 64.6m	2.51%	0.03%
0.36%	Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc.	2,414,591	CHF 57.1m	3.23%	0.01%
0.32%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	2,191,657	CHF 51.8m	0.11%	no data
0.31%	UBS Asset Management AG	2,076,796	CHF 49.1m	2.99%	no data
0.31%	Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management	2,074,014	CHF 49.1m	0%	0.01%
0.26%	Allianz Asset Management GmbH	1,734,609	CHF 41.0m	-15.9%	0.04%
0.23%	Massachusetts Financial Services Company	1,583,844	CHF 37.5m	0%	0.01%
0.23%	Eurizon Capital SGR SpA	1,547,818	CHF 36.6m	4.28%	0.07%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2026/07/18 07:00
End of Day Share Price	2026/07/08 00:00
Earnings	2026/06/30
Annual Earnings	2025/12/31

Data Sources

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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

Essity AB (publ) is covered by 25 analysts. 14 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
null null	ABG Sundal Collier
Warren Ackerman	Barclays
Patrick Folan	Barclays