Metals Exploration Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

AIM:MTL Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Role	Shares	Max Price
28 Oct 24	SellUK£168,749	Andrew Chubb	Individual		2,500,000	UK£0.067
28 Oct 24	SellUK£141,210	Michael Langoulant	Individual		2,166,000	UK£0.067

Insider Trading Volume

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

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of MTL?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Public Companies	2,876,001	0.166%
General Public	211,739,460	12.3%
Private Companies	318,332,143	18.4%
Institutions	468,405,066	27.1%
Individual Insiders	726,863,745	42.1%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 85.53% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
37.7%	Nicholas Anthony Candy	651,000,000	UK£34.5m	-13.3%	no data
18.4%	Drachs Investments No 3 Ltd.	317,532,143	UK£16.8m	1,120%	no data
4.8%	Baker Steel Capital Managers LLP	82,999,252	UK£4.4m	28%	0.6%
2.98%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	51,567,527	UK£2.7m	0%	no data
2.94%	DBS Group Holdings Limited, Asset Management Arm	50,819,098	UK£2.7m	0%	0.25%
2.58%	HBOS Investment Fund Managers Limited	44,637,755	UK£2.4m	0%	0.02%
2.2%	M. D. Barnard & Co. Ltd., Asset Management Arm	38,042,542	UK£2.0m	0%	2.2%
2.14%	Anthony Millar	36,987,156	UK£2.0m	0%	no data
1.58%	Charles Stanley & Co. Ltd, Asset Management Arm	27,339,827	UK£1.4m	0%	0.02%
1.16%	Jarvis Securities plc, Asset Management Arm	20,010,282	UK£1.1m	0%	0.11%
1.11%	Barclays Bank PLC, Wealth and Investment Management Division	19,242,148	UK£1.0m	0%	0.01%
0.9%	Investment Funds Direct Limited, Securities Investments	15,546,296	UK£824.0k	0%	0.23%
0.88%	IG Group Holdings Plc, Asset Management Arm	15,241,990	UK£807.8k	0%	0.08%
0.85%	UBS Asset Management AG	14,704,794	UK£779.4k	0%	no data
0.81%	Rathbones Investment Management Limited	14,069,509	UK£745.7k	0%	no data
0.65%	Rowan Dartington & Co. Ltd., Asset Management Arm	11,287,000	UK£598.2k	0%	0.09%
0.6%	Hobart Capital Markets Limited, Asset management Arm	10,411,965	UK£551.8k	0%	5.02%
0.48%	Darren Bowden	8,257,355	UK£437.6k	0%	no data
0.47%	Investec Wealth & Investment Limited	8,060,087	UK£427.2k	0%	0.01%
0.45%	Robert Marshall	7,820,928	UK£414.5k	0%	no data
0.42%	Peel Hunt LLP., Asset Management Arm	7,307,902	UK£387.3k	0%	0.13%
0.38%	Credit Suisse, Investment Banking and Securities Investments	6,644,305	UK£352.1k	0%	0.02%
0.38%	David Cather	6,600,000	UK£349.8k	0%	no data
0.38%	Timothy Livesey	6,600,000	UK£349.8k	0%	no data
0.32%	Michael Langoulant	5,498,306	UK£291.4k	0%	no data

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/22 11:50
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/20 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

Metals Exploration plc is covered by 4 analysts. 1 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
Roger Bell	Hannam & Partners (Advisory) LLP
Andrei Kroupnik	Hannam & Partners (Advisory) LLP
Jonathan Guy	Hannam & Partners (Advisory) LLP