Whitbread Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

LSE:WTB Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
11 Aug 26	BuyUK£11,911	Shelley Roberts	Individual	485	UK£24.56
08 May 26	BuyUK£29,786	Shelley Roberts	Individual	1,290	UK£23.09
16 Feb 26	BuyUK£209,707	Christine Hodgson	Individual	7,750	UK£27.06
11 Nov 25	BuyUK£19,861	Shelley Roberts	Individual	689	UK£28.83
21 Oct 25	BuyUK£14,870	Richard Gillingwater	Individual	500	UK£29.74

Insider Trading Volume

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

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of WTB?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
State or Government	129,230	0.0773%
Employee Share Scheme	387,775	0.232%
Public Companies	420,685	0.252%
Private Companies	455,454	0.272%
Individual Insiders	4,342,038	2.6%
General Public	21,494,130	12.9%
Institutions	139,912,223	83.7%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 59% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
7.75%	BlackRock, Inc.	12,950,865	UK£304.1m	-18.1%	no data
6.88%	Artemis Investment Management LLP	11,495,796	UK£269.9m	5.89%	0.8%
4.06%	Vanguard Capital Management, LLC	6,789,982	UK£159.4m	-0.78%	no data
3.35%	UBS Asset Management AG	5,593,034	UK£131.3m	-0.5%	0.01%
3.01%	Norges Bank Investment Management	5,034,955	UK£118.2m	43.6%	0.01%
2.52%	Richard Livingstone	4,215,706	UK£99.0m	0%	no data
2.52%	Invesco Ltd.	4,214,954	UK£99.0m	-6.83%	0.03%
2.26%	Schroder Investment Management Limited	3,774,074	UK£88.6m	-1.2%	0.05%
2.24%	Metropolis Capital Limited	3,736,999	UK£87.7m	18.9%	2.46%
2.23%	Citigroup Inc.	3,721,895	UK£87.4m	1,010%	0.05%
1.94%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	3,249,210	UK£76.3m	14%	0.01%
1.83%	Aviva Investors Global Services Ltd.	3,050,859	UK£71.6m	-5.68%	0.09%
1.81%	Aberdeen Group Plc	3,018,201	UK£70.9m	-0.9%	0.05%
1.67%	Schroder Investment Management North America Inc.	2,793,173	UK£65.6m	-0.57%	0.22%
1.61%	Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Ltd.	2,686,117	UK£63.1m	3.26%	0.15%
1.59%	State Street Investment Management	2,663,477	UK£62.5m	3.16%	no data
1.58%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	2,647,416	UK£62.2m	-24.6%	0.01%
1.45%	Vanguard Asset Management, Limited	2,429,200	UK£57.0m	-0.37%	0.02%
1.37%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	2,286,941	UK£53.7m	-9.61%	0.01%
1.33%	American Century Investment Management Inc	2,215,969	UK£52.0m	0.39%	0.02%
1.3%	Man Group Plc	2,164,935	UK£50.8m	69.4%	0.37%
1.27%	Janus Henderson Group Ltd.	2,116,753	UK£49.7m	12.1%	0.02%
1.15%	Allianz Asset Management GmbH	1,922,528	UK£45.1m	0.42%	0.05%
1.15%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	1,922,178	UK£45.1m	-9.09%	0.02%
1.15%	Amundi Asset Management SAS	1,916,344	UK£45.0m	6.86%	0.01%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2026/09/10 23:10
End of Day Share Price	2026/09/10 00:00
Earnings	2026/02/26
Annual Earnings	2026/02/26

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

Whitbread plc is covered by 32 analysts. 17 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
Jaina Mistry	Barclays
Victoria Lee Stern	Barclays
Pravin Gondhale	Barclays