GlobalData Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

LSE:DATA Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
01 Oct 25	BuyUK£29,951	Graham Lilley	Individual	23,961	UK£1.25
10 Sep 25	SellUK£26,700	Peter Harkness	Individual	17,800	UK£1.50
10 Sep 25	SellUK£29,999,999	Michael Danson	Individual	20,000,000	UK£1.50
10 Sep 25	SellUK£14,259	Peter Harkness	Individual	9,506	UK£1.50

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 DATA?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Private Companies	400,000	0.053%
Public Companies	489,992	0.065%
Employee Share Scheme	50,779,215	6.73%
Institutions	224,968,715	29.8%
Individual Insiders	477,631,911	63.3%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 100.32% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
62.4%	Michael Danson	454,092,406	UK£418.7m	0%	no data
6.98%	Globaldata Plc, Employee Share Scheme	50,779,215	UK£46.8m	0%	100.0%
6.72%	Liontrust Asset Management PLC	48,848,655	UK£45.0m	9.1%	0.29%
3.78%	Gresham House Asset Management Limited	27,499,707	UK£25.4m	74.1%	1.96%
3.15%	Wayne Lloyd	22,900,723	UK£21.1m	1.95%	no data
2.21%	Fidelity International Ltd	16,061,710	UK£14.8m	-28%	0.01%
1.48%	Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Ltd.	10,753,406	UK£9.9m	0%	0.55%
1.42%	Artemis Investment Management LLP	10,347,772	UK£9.5m	1.85%	0.03%
1.34%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	9,766,961	UK£9.0m	-18.2%	no data
1.2%	Royal London Asset Management Ltd.	8,700,000	UK£8.0m	0%	0.01%
1.03%	Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Ltd.	7,467,413	UK£6.9m	6.83%	0.02%
0.99%	River Global Investors LLP	7,177,753	UK£6.6m	58.2%	0.5%
0.95%	Alantra Eqmc Asset Management, Sgiic, S.A	6,941,865	UK£6.4m	0%	0.92%
0.91%	Aberdeen Group Plc	6,635,468	UK£6.1m	-47.4%	no data
0.85%	Invesco Ltd.	6,183,936	UK£5.7m	99.7%	no data
0.81%	Chelverton Asset Management Limited	5,865,000	UK£5.4m	-0.58%	0.74%
0.66%	Canaccord Genuity Asset Management Limited	4,775,000	UK£4.4m	-42.1%	0.28%
0.65%	Nplus1 Singer Advisory LLP	4,759,558	UK£4.4m	0%	8.17%
0.52%	AXA Investment Managers S.A.	3,783,315	UK£3.5m	-8.24%	0.01%
0.46%	Janus Henderson Group plc	3,364,515	UK£3.1m	41.2%	no data
0.44%	James Sharp & Co.	3,166,655	UK£2.9m	-0.08%	0.42%
0.37%	Coast Capital Management, LP	2,676,155	UK£2.5m	0%	12.29%
0.35%	Barclays Bank PLC	2,537,584	UK£2.3m	91.3%	no data
0.34%	Herald Investment Management Ltd.	2,474,908	UK£2.3m	0%	0.22%
0.28%	Edentree Asset Management Limited	2,000,000	UK£1.8m	0%	0.4%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2026/06/11 09:28
End of Day Share Price	2026/06/11 00:00
Earnings	2025/12/31
Annual Earnings	2025/12/31

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

GlobalData Plc is covered by 13 analysts. 8 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
Robert Chantry	Berenberg
Alexander James Short	Berenberg
Ciaran Donnelly	Berenberg