World Chess Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

DB:QZ9 Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Role	Shares	Max Price
07 Nov 25	Sell€219,670	Ilya Merenzon	Individual		14,000,000	€0.016
01 Oct 25	Sell€30,157	Ilya Merenzon	Individual		1,500,000	€0.02

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 QZ9?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Private Companies	24,873,824	2.28%
VC/PE Firms	83,910,000	7.7%
Institutions	148,225,774	13.6%
General Public	242,879,103	22.3%
Individual Insiders	589,917,878	54.1%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have been substantially diluted in the past year, with total shares outstanding growing by 42.4%.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 77.71% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
34.1%	Ilya Merenzon	371,662,818	€1.2m	-0.8%	no data
7.7%	Prytek Holdings Pte Ltd.	83,910,000	€271.6k	0%	100.0%
6.9%	Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Ltd.	75,181,622	€243.4k	22.6%	no data
5.25%	Dmitri Lipnitsky	57,174,335	€185.1k	0%	no data
5.25%	Valery Kurylau	57,174,335	€185.1k	0%	no data
3.64%	Yuri Milner	39,702,982	€128.5k	0%	no data
3.06%	Matvey Shekhovtsov	33,350,000	€108.0k	0%	no data
2.32%	Andrey Insarov	25,288,089	€81.9k	0%	no data
2.27%	AIC Capital LLC	24,740,000	€80.1k	0%	100.0%
1.45%	Puma Investment Management Limited	15,841,382	€51.3k	-37.9%	0.04%
1.04%	Kaspersky Lab ZAO	11,340,000	€36.7k	0%	no data
0.98%	Uk Intis Telecom Ltd	10,666,672	€34.5k	0%	no data
0.77%	Peel Hunt LLP	8,393,898	€27.2k	61.5%	0.01%
0.66%	Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.	7,149,392	€23.1k	459%	no data
0.52%	CGS International Securities Pte. Ltd.	5,636,842	€18.2k	0%	no data
0.51%	Jamison Firestone	5,560,000	€18.0k	0%	no data
0.26%	Cantor Fitzgerald Asset Management	2,885,120	€9.3k	-14.8%	no data
0.26%	Engiscent Pte Ltd	2,867,152	€9.3k	0%	no data
0.19%	TrinityBridge Limited	2,017,305	€6.5k	122%	no data
0.16%	HBOS Investment Fund Managers Limited	1,780,330	€5.8k	82.6%	no data
0.14%	Integrated Financial Arrangements plc	1,541,390	€5.0k	0%	no data
0.099%	Marex Group Limited	1,078,809	€3.5k	-73%	no data
0.08%	Barclays Bank Plc	867,106	€2.8k	54%	no data
0.079%	Aberdeen Group Plc	860,826	€2.8k	54.2%	no data
0.019%	CMC Markets Stockbroking Ltd.	201,752	€653.0	0%	no data

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2026/07/08 17:10
End of Day Share Price	2026/07/08 00:00
Earnings	2025/12/31
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

World Chess PLC is covered by 1 analysts. 0 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
Brendan D’Souza	Allenby Capital Limited