Vesuvius Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

LSE:VSVS Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
07 Apr 25	BuyUK£30,272	Mark Collis	Individual	9,460	UK£3.20
10 Mar 25	BuyUK£20,359	Mark Collis	Individual	5,027	UK£4.05
01 Aug 24	BuyUK£49,740	Mark Collis	Individual	11,528	UK£4.32

Insider Trading Volume

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

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of VSVS?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Private Companies	457,868	0.184%
State or Government	554,339	0.223%
Individual Insiders	695,347	0.28%
Hedge Funds	14,816,672	5.97%
Institutions	231,817,235	93.3%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 85.26% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
23.3%	Cevian Capital AB	57,249,896	UK£186.9m	0%	2.26%
6.56%	Aberforth Partners LLP	16,155,009	UK£52.7m	0.54%	3.01%
6.02%	GLG Partners LP	14,816,672	UK£48.4m	8.44%	0.79%
4.82%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	11,878,589	UK£38.8m	0.09%	0.01%
4.72%	Janus Henderson Group plc	11,618,187	UK£37.9m	1.71%	0.02%
4.39%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	10,802,763	UK£35.3m	-2.96%	no data
4.11%	BlackRock, Inc.	10,108,993	UK£33.0m	-32.3%	no data
3.38%	Martin Currie Ltd.	8,334,016	UK£27.2m	-29.2%	0.48%
3.27%	M&G Investment Management Limited	8,056,441	UK£26.3m	26.6%	0.07%
2.96%	Barclays Bank PLC, Securities Investments	7,296,135	UK£23.8m	93.8%	0.05%
2.45%	Jupiter Fund Management Plc	6,043,633	UK£19.7m	-15.7%	0.08%
2.37%	Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management N.V.	5,831,176	UK£19.0m	-17.8%	0.19%
2.24%	J O Hambro Capital Management Limited	5,511,792	UK£18.0m	12.8%	0.22%
1.9%	Heronbridge Investment Management LLP	4,685,487	UK£15.3m	6.53%	1.74%
1.5%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	3,689,055	UK£12.0m	1.43%	no data
1.39%	Schroder Investment Management Limited	3,428,857	UK£11.2m	-0.09%	0.01%
1.3%	Rathbones Investment Management Limited	3,200,000	UK£10.4m	0%	0.04%
1.3%	Rathbones Asset Management Limited	3,200,000	UK£10.4m	0%	0.12%
1.28%	LSV Asset Management	3,157,500	UK£10.3m	-13.5%	0.03%
1.17%	Unicorn Asset Management Ltd.	2,875,000	UK£9.4m	-2.71%	1.98%
1.12%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	2,765,772	UK£9.0m	4,650%	no data
1.06%	Chelverton Asset Management Limited	2,613,550	UK£8.5m	-21.3%	0.98%
0.95%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	2,351,205	UK£7.7m	-16%	no data
0.91%	JP Morgan Asset Management	2,241,907	UK£7.3m	0%	no data
0.82%	Mondrian Investment Partners Limited	2,020,101	UK£6.6m	-7.29%	0.06%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/04/13 11:04
End of Day Share Price	2025/04/11 00:00
Earnings	2024/12/31
Annual Earnings	2024/12/31

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

Vesuvius plc is covered by 29 analysts. 9 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
David Larkam	Arden Partners Plc.
Jonathan Hurn	Barclays
Nick Webster	Barclays