Spirent Communications 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 BW80?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Individual Insiders	1,996,587	0.333%
Employee Share Scheme	3,661,013	0.61%
Institutions	594,286,193	99.1%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 84.8% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
14.9%	Barclays Bank PLC, Securities Investments	85,990,361	€183.6m	184%	0.21%
8.03%	Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking and Brokerage Investments	46,222,464	€98.7m	-8.05%	0.01%
7.71%	Barclays PLC Private Banking & Investment Banking Investment	44,365,152	€94.7m	15.2%	0.06%
5.64%	Aviva Investors Global Services Ltd.	32,464,084	€69.3m	-1.46%	0.09%
5.28%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	30,414,417	€65.0m	1.74%	no data
5.2%	BlackRock, Inc.	29,920,570	€63.9m	5.45%	no data
4.37%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	25,153,838	€53.7m	-6.1%	0.02%
3.96%	BNP Paribas Arbitrage Sa, Asset Management Arm	22,782,348	€48.7m	-6.15%	0.04%
2.86%	Bank of America Corporation, Asset Management Arm	16,467,695	€35.2m	0%	0.01%
2.55%	Natixis, Investment Banking and Corporate Banking Investments	14,707,932	€31.4m	41.2%	0.14%
2.31%	Societe Generale Group, Banking Investments	13,301,355	€28.4m	9.45%	0.17%
2.16%	Citigroup Inc.,Banking and Securities Investments	12,424,587	€26.5m	-43.7%	0.02%
2.06%	Acadian Asset Management LLC	11,884,009	€25.4m	-6.4%	0.06%
1.94%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	11,154,117	€23.8m	-7.61%	no data
1.83%	Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB, Private Banking, Investment Banking, and Insurance Arm	10,538,625	€22.5m	-41.3%	0.31%
1.82%	The Bank of Nova Scotia, Banking Investments	10,500,975	€22.4m	-18.4%	0.05%
1.74%	Amundi Asset Management SAS	10,012,299	€21.4m	-23.8%	no data
1.74%	SEB Investment Management AB	10,000,000	€21.4m	228%	0.04%
1.6%	Norges Bank Investment Management	9,223,186	€19.7m	0%	no data
1.33%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	7,677,125	€16.4m	-9.61%	no data
1.29%	Jefferies Group LLC, Asset Management Arm	7,428,655	€15.9m	49%	1.63%
1.23%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	7,090,782	€15.1m	2.65%	no data
1.16%	Chelverton Asset Management Limited	6,700,000	€14.3m	7.47%	1.11%
1.04%	M&G Investment Management Limited	6,000,000	€12.8m	-12.6%	0.03%
1.01%	Aviva Investors Luxembourg	5,790,316	€12.4m	0%	0.19%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/30 21:06
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/27 00:00
Earnings	2024/06/30
Annual Earnings	2023/12/31

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

Spirent Communications plc is covered by 22 analysts. 3 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
Alban Cousin	Arete Research Services LLP
Gerardus Vos	Barclays
Stuart Jeffrey	Barclays