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 MRKC?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
General Public	57,684,284	13.3%
Institutions	71,509,833	16.4%
Private Companies	305,583,761	70.3%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 82.9% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
70.3%	E. Merck KG	305,535,626	€42.2b	0%	no data
2.27%	BlackRock, Inc.	9,854,955	€1.4b	3.42%	0.02%
1.5%	Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, Asset Management Arm	6,536,955	€903.4m	0%	61.11%
1.18%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	5,116,590	€707.1m	0.29%	0.01%
1.14%	Massachusetts Financial Services Company	4,948,668	€683.9m	1.06%	0.15%
0.92%	Amundi Asset Management SAS	4,015,726	€555.0m	0%	0.12%
0.88%	Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management	3,806,894	€526.1m	0%	0.15%
0.6%	FMR LLC	2,617,825	€361.8m	-0.36%	0.02%
0.51%	Norges Bank Investment Management	2,232,014	€308.5m	0%	0.03%
0.48%	Union Asset Management Holding AG	2,067,766	€285.8m	0%	0.21%
0.41%	Deka Investment GmbH	1,776,960	€245.6m	0.98%	0.23%
0.3%	Fidelity International Ltd	1,308,222	€180.8m	-0.04%	0.08%
0.28%	UBS Asset Management AG	1,208,630	€167.0m	7.4%	0.02%
0.26%	Walter Scott & Partners Limited	1,120,915	€154.9m	1.49%	0.35%
0.25%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	1,105,610	€152.8m	0.04%	0.01%
0.25%	Lazard Asset Management LLC	1,070,658	€148.0m	0%	0.14%
0.21%	Invesco Ltd.	917,263	€126.8m	0.19%	0.04%
0.2%	First Eagle Investment Management, LLC	849,321	€117.4m	0%	0.16%
0.19%	Swedbank Robur Fonder AB	836,810	€115.6m	0%	0.08%
0.16%	Artisan Partners Limited Partnership	712,363	€98.5m	0%	0.08%
0.14%	Strategic Advisers LLC	613,534	€84.8m	89.4%	0.03%
0.14%	AXA Investment Managers S.A.	607,900	€84.0m	1.32%	0.16%
0.13%	T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	575,719	€79.6m	20.5%	0.01%
0.12%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	508,062	€70.2m	0.24%	no data
0.11%	Mackenzie Financial Corporation	475,895	€65.8m	-2.47%	0.07%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/21 09:50
End of Day Share Price	2024/09/23 00:00
Earnings	2024/09/30
Annual Earnings	2023/12/31

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

Merck KGaA is covered by 60 analysts. 15 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
Martin Schnee	AlphaValue
Gerhard Schwarz	Baader Helvea Equity Research
Odile Rundquist	Baader Helvea Equity Research