BT Group Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

DB:BTQ Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
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
Individual Insiders	5,827,306	0.0595%
State or Government	7,659,223	0.0782%
Employee Share Scheme	86,902,306	0.888%
Private Companies	1,073,553,763	11%
General Public	1,265,831,724	12.9%
Institutions	3,661,905,859	37.4%
Public Companies	3,689,104,368	37.7%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 76.83% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
25.4%	Bharti Airtel Limited	2,486,900,000	€5.4b	1.98%	20.12%
12.2%	Deutsche Telekom AG	1,196,175,322	€2.6b	0%	no data
5.66%	BT Group Plc, Shareview Clients	554,628,829	€1.2b	-3.12%	no data
4.05%	Control Empresarial de Capitales SA de CV	396,776,674	€861.6m	0%	no data
3.23%	BlackRock, Inc.	316,583,559	€687.5m	-13.4%	0.01%
3.12%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	305,593,741	€663.6m	3.82%	0.01%
2.42%	T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	236,659,996	€513.9m	1.72%	0.05%
2.04%	UBS Asset Management AG	200,197,647	€434.7m	5.06%	0.04%
1.73%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	169,646,922	€368.4m	-19.2%	0.08%
1.7%	Aberdeen Group Plc	166,434,489	€361.4m	0.17%	0.21%
1.52%	Schroder Investment Management Limited	148,878,595	€323.3m	-17.5%	0.17%
1.38%	RWC Partners Limited	135,494,294	€294.2m	14.1%	2.46%
1.33%	Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Ltd.	130,380,531	€283.1m	-3.53%	0.62%
1.28%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	125,024,944	€271.5m	9.04%	0.04%
1.23%	HBOS Investment Fund Managers Limited	120,035,473	€260.7m	-0.23%	1.67%
1.04%	Capital Research and Management Company	101,434,163	€220.3m	-0.48%	0.01%
0.97%	Lansdowne Partners Limited	94,588,194	€205.4m	-6.7%	4.09%
0.94%	Equiniti Group Limited	92,484,186	€200.8m	-3.16%	4.62%
0.94%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	92,089,379	€200.0m	97.9%	0.04%
0.89%	British Telecom Employee Share Scheme	86,902,306	€188.7m	-2.85%	no data
0.89%	Wellington Management Group LLP	86,734,758	€188.3m	10.4%	0.03%
0.87%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	85,016,765	€184.6m	54.2%	0.01%
0.71%	Norges Bank Investment Management	69,453,467	€150.8m	-8.44%	0.01%
0.69%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	67,301,114	€146.1m	9.27%	0.06%
0.58%	Barclays Bank PLC	56,358,449	€122.4m	-9.97%	0.14%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2026/01/25 07:00
End of Day Share Price	2026/01/23 00:00
Earnings	2025/09/30
Annual Earnings	2025/03/31

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. 14 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
Andrew Charles Beale	Arete Research Services LLP
John Davies	Banco Santander
Maurice Patrick	Barclays