Mears Group Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

LSE:MER Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
06 Nov 24	BuyUK£91,100	Andrew C. Smith	Individual	25,000	UK£3.64
04 Nov 24	BuyUK£36,215	Lucas Critchley	Individual	9,986	UK£3.63
09 Aug 24	BuyUK£42,816	Andrew C. Smith	Individual	12,010	UK£3.57
20 Jun 24	SellUK£539,792	David Miles	Individual	149,527	UK£3.61
20 Jun 24	SellUK£359,906	Andrew C. Smith	Individual	99,697	UK£3.61
20 May 24	BuyUK£24,864	Angela Lockwood	Individual	6,480	UK£3.84
26 Apr 24	BuyUK£70,101	Andrew C. Smith	Individual	20,000	UK£3.51

Insider Trading Volume

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

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of MER?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Public Companies	75,989	0.075%
Individual Insiders	924,303	0.913%
VC/PE Firms	5,972,218	5.9%
Private Companies	9,912,912	9.79%
Institutions	84,399,776	83.3%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 89.27% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
10.8%	Fosun International Holdings Ltd.	9,887,912	UK£36.1m	0%	no data
9.82%	FMR LLC	8,953,514	UK£32.7m	-1.73%	no data
9.62%	JP Morgan Asset Management	8,774,125	UK£32.0m	11.1%	no data
6.55%	Gresham House Asset Management Limited	5,972,218	UK£21.8m	11.5%	1.49%
6.4%	Heronbridge Investment Management LLP	5,839,823	UK£21.3m	-3.35%	2.05%
5.27%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	4,804,960	UK£17.5m	0.42%	no data
4.2%	Axxion S.A.	3,826,475	UK£14.0m	0%	7.21%
3.72%	JPMorgan Chase & Co, Brokerage and Securities Investments	3,392,059	UK£12.4m	-2.13%	0.01%
3.41%	LOYS AG	3,105,849	UK£11.3m	0%	2.53%
2.87%	Schroder Investment Management Limited	2,622,066	UK£9.6m	-2.2%	0.01%
2.69%	Artemis Investment Management LLP	2,457,872	UK£9.0m	-0.29%	0.04%
2.35%	Huntington Management, LLC	2,139,719	UK£7.8m	0%	16.46%
2.33%	Acadian Asset Management LLC	2,128,006	UK£7.8m	-0.07%	0.02%
2.24%	Barclays Bank PLC, Securities Investments	2,045,544	UK£7.5m	4.68%	0.01%
2.03%	Loys Investment S.A.	1,849,922	UK£6.7m	-44.5%	14.1%
1.97%	BlackRock, Inc.	1,792,751	UK£6.5m	-3.93%	no data
1.97%	Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking and Brokerage Investments	1,792,499	UK£6.5m	-10.5%	no data
1.75%	UBS Asset Management AG	1,593,521	UK£5.8m	-7.7%	no data
1.75%	Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Banking and Securities Investments	1,593,380	UK£5.8m	16.1%	no data
1.7%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	1,549,923	UK£5.7m	-2.99%	no data
1.5%	Close Asset Management Limited	1,365,029	UK£5.0m	0%	0.05%
1.32%	Martin Currie Ltd.	1,200,000	UK£4.4m	-26.4%	0.06%
1.02%	Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership	929,212	UK£3.4m	30.6%	no data
1%	Premier Fund Managers Ltd.	911,288	UK£3.3m	-35.4%	0.05%
0.99%	PEH Wertpapier AG	900,000	UK£3.3m	0%	0.27%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/19 04:47
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/19 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

Mears Group plc is covered by 17 analysts. 4 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
null null	Arden Partners Plc.
Arabella Burwell	Canaccord Genuity
Kevin Cammack	Cavendish Historical (Cenkos Securities)