BT Group Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

BST:BTQ Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
27 Mar 26	Buy€11,766	Dame Linda Cairnie	Individual	5,000	€2.35
10 Feb 26	Buy€13,695	Sara Weller	Individual	5,932	€2.31
23 Dec 25	Buy€20,952	Alex Chisholm	Individual	10,000	€2.10
12 Dec 25	Buy€10,223	Steven Guggenheimer	Individual	5,000	€2.04
05 Dec 25	Buy€10,067,577	Bharti Airtel Limited	Company	4,900,000	€2.06
04 Aug 25	Sell€224,359	John Watson	Individual	93,507	€2.40
04 Aug 25	Sell€503,551	Simon Lowth	Individual	209,867	€2.40

Insider Trading Volume

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

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of BTQ?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
State or Government	3,147,223	0.0319%
Individual Insiders	5,838,238	0.0592%
Employee Share Scheme	83,456,958	0.847%
Private Companies	1,030,602,348	10.5%
General Public	1,263,213,261	12.8%
Public Companies	3,686,253,757	37.4%
Institutions	3,781,109,465	38.4%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 76.3% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
25.2%	Bharti Airtel Limited	2,486,900,000	€5.5b	0%	20.08%
12.1%	Deutsche Telekom AG	1,196,175,322	€2.7b	0%	no data
5.38%	BT Group Plc, Shareview Clients	530,309,493	€1.2b	-2.39%	no data
4.08%	Control Empresarial de Capitales SA de CV	402,492,870	€897.8m	5.5%	no data
4.08%	BlackRock, Inc.	401,852,932	€896.4m	16.7%	0.01%
2.22%	T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	218,774,371	€488.0m	-2.83%	0.04%
1.96%	Capital Research and Management Company	192,783,513	€430.0m	90.2%	0.02%
1.92%	UBS Asset Management AG	188,992,046	€421.6m	3.62%	0.03%
1.81%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	178,734,926	€398.7m	13.6%	0.08%
1.77%	Vanguard Capital Management, LLC	174,591,554	€389.4m	1.02%	0.01%
1.59%	Aberdeen Group Plc	156,338,578	€348.7m	-3.77%	0.19%
1.55%	RWC Partners Limited	152,984,321	€341.2m	0.84%	2.6%
1.48%	Schroder Investment Management Limited	145,783,931	€325.2m	-2.71%	0.17%
1.43%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	141,306,238	€315.2m	6.22%	0.04%
1.16%	Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Ltd.	114,368,981	€255.1m	-7.21%	0.55%
1.14%	HBOS Investment Fund Managers Limited	112,805,282	€251.6m	-3.79%	1.58%
1.08%	Wellington Management Group LLP	106,855,623	€238.3m	4.97%	0.04%
0.89%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	87,604,870	€195.4m	0.17%	0.04%
0.87%	Orbit Private Investments, L.P.	85,619,114	€191.0m	-5.67%	no data
0.86%	Vanguard Asset Management, Limited	84,899,062	€189.4m	5.76%	0.07%
0.85%	British Telecom Employee Share Scheme	83,456,958	€186.2m	-2.64%	no data
0.84%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	82,899,758	€184.9m	15.5%	0.01%
0.72%	Lansdowne Partners Limited	70,779,562	€157.9m	-28.3%	2.58%
0.69%	Norges Bank Investment Management	68,314,717	€152.4m	-4.7%	0.01%
0.54%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	52,910,316	€118.0m	3.07%	0.01%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2026/06/22 00:43
End of Day Share Price	2026/06/22 00:00
Earnings	2026/03/31
Annual Earnings	2026/03/31

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

BT Group plc is covered by 38 analysts. 12 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
John Davies	Banco Santander
Maurice Patrick	Barclays
Nicholas Lyall	Berenberg