Essentra Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

LSE:ESNT Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
20 Mar 25	BuyUK£38,255	Steve Good	Individual	35,000	UK£1.09
18 Sep 24	BuyUK£14,912	Scott Morgan Fawcett	Individual	10,479	UK£1.42
18 Sep 24	BuyUK£12,424	Jack Clarke	Individual	8,710	UK£1.43

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: Insufficient data to determine if insiders have bought more shares than they have sold in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of ESNT?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Individual Insiders	291,224	0.102%
Employee Share Scheme	992,713	0.347%
Private Companies	1,761,637	0.617%
General Public	24,882,173	8.71%
Institutions	257,791,934	90.2%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 78.93% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
12.8%	Fidelity International Ltd	36,618,300	UK£37.3m	15.6%	0.02%
5.51%	FMR LLC	15,756,252	UK£16.1m	7.51%	no data
5.42%	Heronbridge Investment Management LLP	15,496,652	UK£15.8m	9.51%	1.65%
4.81%	Massachusetts Financial Services Company	13,750,809	UK£14.0m	-1.53%	no data
4.35%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	12,439,876	UK£12.7m	-13.6%	no data
3.45%	Ruffer LLP	9,856,310	UK£10.1m	104%	0.23%
3.35%	Soros Fund Management LLC	9,579,434	UK£9.8m	-29.2%	0.3%
3.17%	RWC Partners Limited	9,065,334	UK£9.2m	-1.09%	0.11%
3.14%	Ninety One UK Limited	8,958,250	UK£9.1m	-2.42%	0.02%
3.07%	Artisan Partners Limited Partnership	8,784,513	UK£9.0m	31.5%	0.01%
2.98%	Premier Fund Managers Ltd.	8,505,872	UK£8.7m	75%	0.14%
2.84%	Harris Associates L.P.	8,122,016	UK£8.3m	1.46%	0.01%
2.48%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	7,085,252	UK£7.2m	-20.8%	no data
2.42%	Sp-Rahastoyhtiö Oy	6,926,876	UK£7.1m	0%	0.37%
2.27%	Odyssean Capital LLP	6,500,000	UK£6.6m	0%	3.38%
2.17%	River Global Investors LLP	6,198,499	UK£6.3m	6.22%	0.41%
2.12%	Paradice Investment Management Pty Ltd.	6,043,193	UK£6.2m	69%	0.37%
1.77%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	5,063,026	UK£5.2m	5.95%	no data
1.77%	Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Banking and Securities Investments	5,053,743	UK£5.2m	3,580%	no data
1.7%	Invesco Ltd.	4,868,763	UK£5.0m	-27.2%	no data
1.67%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	4,777,157	UK£4.9m	2.87%	no data
1.64%	Janus Henderson Group plc	4,671,641	UK£4.8m	-7.73%	no data
1.57%	M&G Investment Management Limited	4,489,546	UK£4.6m	16.6%	0.01%
1.3%	JPMorgan Chase & Co, Brokerage and Securities Investments	3,722,013	UK£3.8m	150%	no data
1.12%	Highclere International Investors LLP	3,197,524	UK£3.3m	0%	0.8%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/08/05 10:49
End of Day Share Price	2025/08/05 00:00
Earnings	2025/06/30
Annual Earnings	2024/12/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

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

Essentra plc is covered by 17 analysts. 6 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
Calum Battersby	Berenberg
James Bayliss	Berenberg
Michael O'Brien	Canaccord Genuity