J Sainsbury Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

LSE:SBRY Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
10 Jul 25	SellUK£1,641,957	Simon Roberts	Individual	578,500	UK£2.84
24 Apr 25	SellUK£418,433	Simon Roberts	Individual	161,010	UK£2.60
24 Apr 25	SellUK£197,535	Blathnaid Bergin	Individual	76,010	UK£2.60

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: SBRY insiders have only sold shares in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of SBRY?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Public Companies	1,084,942	0.0482%
Individual Insiders	3,389,432	0.15%
State or Government	9,190,537	0.408%
Employee Share Scheme	58,645,106	2.6%
Private Companies	122,214,601	5.43%
VC/PE Firms	475,219,642	21.1%
General Public	549,604,841	24.4%
Institutions	1,033,221,850	45.9%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 67.23% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
10.6%	Qatar Holding LLC	239,446,132	UK£802.1m	0%	3.72%
10.5%	Vesa Equity Investment S.à R.L.	235,773,510	UK£789.8m	0%	66.26%
9.45%	Pzena Investment Management, Inc.	212,756,829	UK£712.7m	-0.8%	1.56%
5.25%	Bestway Group UK Limited	118,273,900	UK£396.2m	0%	no data
4.07%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	91,618,747	UK£306.9m	-6.09%	0.01%
2.86%	Brandes Investment Partners, LP	64,521,001	UK£216.1m	-0.26%	1.41%
2.58%	The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts	58,037,513	UK£194.4m	-1.81%	100.0%
2.4%	J Sainsbury Plc, ESOT	54,031,909	UK£181.0m	-6.51%	no data
2.03%	Schroder Investment Management Limited	45,788,412	UK£153.4m	9.69%	0.1%
1.66%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	37,438,088	UK£125.4m	-14.5%	0.06%
1.61%	Aberdeen Group Plc	36,306,054	UK£121.6m	-3.37%	0.09%
1.37%	Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Ltd.	30,838,500	UK£103.3m	-11.2%	0.27%
1.36%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	30,705,227	UK£102.9m	0.08%	no data
1.31%	LSV Asset Management	29,508,244	UK£98.9m	-0.18%	0.26%
1.23%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	27,765,406	UK£93.0m	3.24%	0.02%
1.12%	UBS Asset Management AG	25,197,681	UK£84.4m	3.79%	0.01%
1.1%	Invesco Ltd.	24,720,465	UK£82.8m	51.4%	0.03%
1.07%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	24,013,220	UK£80.4m	-22.1%	0.02%
1.03%	Jupiter Fund Management Plc	23,105,964	UK£77.4m	-2.73%	0.26%
0.9%	Amundi Asset Management SAS	20,249,446	UK£67.8m	11.6%	0.02%
0.81%	SEI Investments Management Corporation	18,203,010	UK£61.0m	-2.42%	0.14%
0.76%	Aviva Investors Global Services Ltd.	17,197,356	UK£57.6m	-33.7%	0.09%
0.76%	M&G Investment Management Limited	17,172,736	UK£57.5m	41.3%	0.14%
0.72%	Janus Henderson Group plc	16,176,659	UK£54.2m	36.8%	0.03%
0.69%	HBOS Investment Fund Managers Limited	15,475,661	UK£51.8m	-9.23%	0.41%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/10/06 14:51
End of Day Share Price	2025/10/03 00:00
Earnings	2025/03/01
Annual Earnings	2025/03/01

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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

J Sainsbury plc is covered by 45 analysts. 12 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
Virginie Blin	AlphaValue
Pierre-Yves Gauthier	AlphaValue
Nicholas Bubb	Arden Partners Plc.