Smiths Group Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

BST:QS2A Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
03 Feb 25	Buy€2,126	Richard Howes	Individual	87	€24.43
03 Feb 25	Buy€6,793	Karin Hoeing	Individual	278	€24.43
13 Nov 24	Buy€83,061	Mark Seligman	Individual	4,000	€20.77
13 Nov 24	Buy€406,053	Steven Williams	Individual	20,000	€20.30
13 Nov 24	Buy€155,582	Roland Carter	Individual	7,618	€20.42
01 Nov 24	Buy€2,100	Richard Howes	Individual	115	€18.26
01 Nov 24	Buy€6,756	Karin Hoeing	Individual	370	€18.26
01 Aug 24	Buy€2,085	Richard Howes	Individual	99	€21.06
01 Aug 24	Buy€6,675	Karin Hoeing	Individual	317	€21.06

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: QS2A insiders have bought more shares than they have sold in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of QS2A?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Public Companies	0	0%
Individual Insiders	235,272	0.0704%
State or Government	300,594	0.09%
Private Companies	1,010,020	0.302%
Employee Share Scheme	1,669,942	0.5%
General Public	23,290,047	6.97%
Institutions	307,638,175	92.1%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 61.75% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
10.7%	BlackRock, Inc.	35,773,136	€770.0m	-2.04%	0.01%
6.28%	Dodge & Cox	20,990,016	€451.8m	0.12%	0.17%
4.93%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	16,459,679	€354.3m	8.02%	0.01%
4.18%	Artemis Investment Management LLP	13,957,120	€300.4m	-10.8%	1.23%
3.68%	Wellington Management Group LLP	12,306,392	€264.9m	-8.38%	0.05%
2.63%	Sprucegrove Investment Management Ltd	8,793,863	€189.3m	-26.5%	4.36%
2.42%	Harris Associates L.P.	8,088,837	€174.1m	10.5%	0.25%
2.22%	Norges Bank Investment Management	7,425,324	€159.8m	15.9%	0.01%
2.17%	UBS Asset Management AG	7,250,130	€156.1m	75.6%	0.02%
2.05%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	6,861,623	€147.7m	1.57%	0.04%
1.97%	T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	6,578,963	€141.6m	1.93%	0.02%
1.73%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	5,791,470	€124.7m	-3.71%	0.01%
1.6%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	5,354,938	€115.3m	-10.4%	0.03%
1.6%	Evenlode Investment Management Limited	5,349,138	€115.1m	-19.8%	1.97%
1.6%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	5,334,183	€114.8m	10.5%	0.05%
1.54%	ODDO BHF Asset Management SAS	5,130,143	€110.4m	-12.6%	1.88%
1.4%	Fiduciary Management, Inc.	4,664,710	€100.4m	-1.34%	0.82%
1.39%	Barclays Bank PLC, Securities Investments	4,651,300	€100.1m	4.11%	0.18%
1.26%	Artisan Partners Limited Partnership	4,202,894	€90.5m	-15.7%	0.08%
1.23%	Amundi Asset Management SAS	4,095,189	€88.1m	74.3%	0.02%
1.19%	Deka Investment GmbH	3,984,261	€85.8m	-0.88%	0.08%
1.08%	CIBC Asset Management Inc.	3,602,170	€77.5m	74.8%	0.16%
0.99%	Toronto-Dominion Bank, Securities Investments	3,303,659	€71.1m	696%	1.02%
0.97%	Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking and Brokerage Investments	3,238,264	€69.7m	542%	0.01%
0.94%	Abu Dhabi Investment Authority	3,145,807	€67.7m	418%	0.5%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/04/25 06:08
End of Day Share Price	2025/01/27 00:00
Earnings	2025/01/31
Annual Earnings	2024/07/31

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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

Smiths Group plc is covered by 43 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
David Larkam	Arden Partners Plc.
Jonathan Hurn	Barclays
Nick Webster	Barclays