Marks and Spencer Group Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

BATS-CHIXE:MKSL Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Role	Shares	Max Price
27 May 25	BuyUK£24,853	Fiona Dawson	Individual		6,572	UK£3.78

Insider Trading Volume

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

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of MKSL?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Public Companies	1,075,949	0.0534%
State or Government	1,547,702	0.0768%
Individual Insiders	1,845,594	0.0916%
Employee Share Scheme	43,171,318	2.14%
Private Companies	92,811,944	4.6%
General Public	305,844,554	15.2%
Institutions	1,569,510,820	77.9%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 54.64% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
9.37%	BlackRock, Inc.	188,959,183	UK£640.9m	0.86%	0.01%
4.82%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	97,106,966	UK£329.4m	1.17%	0.01%
4.33%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	87,369,407	UK£296.4m	2.86%	0.09%
3.43%	RWC Partners Limited	69,170,698	UK£234.6m	1.83%	2.8%
3.31%	Marks & Spencer Group plc Shareview Client(s)	66,725,321	UK£226.3m	-3.68%	no data
2.37%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	47,795,785	UK£162.1m	-12.4%	0.08%
2.14%	Marks & Spencer Group Plc, ESOP	43,171,318	UK£146.4m	20.7%	no data
2.1%	Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Ltd.	42,374,613	UK£143.7m	-0.74%	0.41%
2.1%	Norges Bank Investment Management	42,247,803	UK£143.3m	-4.05%	0.01%
2.09%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	42,163,790	UK£143.0m	12.9%	0.01%
1.98%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	39,892,493	UK£135.3m	-16.6%	0.03%
1.92%	Aberdeen Group Plc	38,780,291	UK£131.5m	-5.37%	0.11%
1.7%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	34,312,204	UK£116.4m	12.1%	0.01%
1.43%	Baillie Gifford & Co.	28,848,548	UK£97.9m	-10.8%	0.06%
1.34%	JP Morgan Asset Management	27,046,764	UK£91.7m	4.3%	0.01%
1.33%	American Century Investment Management Inc	26,886,027	UK£91.2m	4.64%	0.06%
1.32%	Invesco Ltd.	26,511,769	UK£89.9m	-10.6%	0.03%
1.3%	Natixis, Investment Banking and Corporate Banking Investments	26,259,217	UK£89.1m	22.4%	0.46%
1.03%	Societe Generale Group, Banking Investments	20,805,231	UK£70.6m	398%	0.52%
1.03%	Allianz Asset Management GmbH	20,701,380	UK£70.2m	14.2%	0.04%
0.95%	HBOS Investment Fund Managers Limited	19,155,494	UK£65.0m	1.15%	0.54%
0.91%	Artemis Investment Management LLP	18,371,685	UK£62.3m	2.26%	0.27%
0.8%	Equiniti Group Limited	16,078,234	UK£54.5m	-8.69%	no data
0.78%	Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management	15,631,716	UK£53.0m	1.99%	0.02%
0.74%	UBS Asset Management AG	14,980,289	UK£50.8m	-30.6%	0.01%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/07/07 11:44
End of Day Share Price	2025/07/07 00:00
Earnings	2025/03/29
Annual Earnings	2025/03/29

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

Marks and Spencer Group plc is covered by 47 analysts. 15 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
Philip Dorgan	Altium Capital Limited
Nicholas Bubb	Arden Partners Plc.
James Anstead	Barclays