Merck KGaA 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 MER?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
General Public	57,277,706	13.2%
Institutions	71,916,569	16.5%
Private Companies	305,583,603	70.3%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 82.83% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
70.3%	E. Merck KG	305,535,626	CHF 46.1b	0%	no data
2.17%	BlackRock, Inc.	9,421,498	CHF 1.4b	0%	0.03%
1.5%	Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, Asset Management Arm	6,536,955	CHF 985.4m	0%	62.66%
1.17%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	5,097,406	CHF 768.4m	1.85%	0.01%
1.16%	Massachusetts Financial Services Company	5,057,091	CHF 762.3m	0.23%	0.18%
0.92%	Amundi Asset Management SAS	4,015,726	CHF 605.4m	4.07%	0.14%
0.88%	Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management	3,806,894	CHF 573.9m	0%	0.19%
0.69%	FMR LLC	2,980,286	CHF 449.3m	-7.82%	0.03%
0.51%	Norges Bank Investment Management	2,232,014	CHF 336.5m	-5.24%	0.03%
0.48%	Union Asset Management Holding AG	2,067,766	CHF 311.7m	0.1%	0.25%
0.41%	Deka Investment GmbH	1,780,660	CHF 268.4m	-0.18%	0.26%
0.32%	Fidelity International Ltd	1,392,734	CHF 209.9m	0%	0.1%
0.26%	Lazard Asset Management LLC	1,121,631	CHF 169.1m	-0.64%	0.16%
0.26%	UBS Asset Management AG	1,112,805	CHF 167.8m	13.9%	0.02%
0.25%	Walter Scott & Partners Limited	1,099,736	CHF 165.8m	0%	0.4%
0.25%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	1,084,600	CHF 163.5m	1.53%	0.01%
0.21%	Invesco Ltd.	905,784	CHF 136.5m	0.02%	0.04%
0.2%	First Eagle Investment Management, LLC	849,321	CHF 128.0m	0%	0.18%
0.19%	Swedbank Robur Fonder AB	822,025	CHF 123.9m	0.65%	0.09%
0.16%	Artisan Partners Limited Partnership	712,363	CHF 107.4m	0%	0.09%
0.13%	AXA Investment Managers S.A.	560,423	CHF 84.5m	0.19%	0.17%
0.12%	Candriam	528,186	CHF 79.6m	0.02%	0.24%
0.12%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	506,056	CHF 76.3m	2.7%	no data
0.11%	T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	476,944	CHF 71.9m	-5.81%	0.01%
0.094%	Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P.	407,022	CHF 61.4m	-1.92%	0.02%