WPP Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

LSE:WPP Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Role	Shares	Max Price
13 Nov 25	BuyUK£144,350	Cindy Rose Quackenbush	Individual		50,000	UK£2.89

Insider Trading Volume

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

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of WPP?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Individual Insiders	2,219,303	0.207%
General Public	326,862,204	30.5%
Institutions	743,917,210	69.3%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 63.95% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
6.78%	Mondrian Investment Partners Limited	72,793,116	UK£220.7m	33.7%	1.93%
5.49%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	58,891,366	UK£178.6m	1.38%	no data
5.28%	RWC Partners Limited	56,604,455	UK£171.6m	6,350%	1.84%
5.17%	FMR LLC	55,515,647	UK£168.3m	459%	0.01%
5.06%	Silchester International Investors LLP	54,288,349	UK£164.6m	0%	0.84%
5.05%	Schroder Investment Management Limited	54,132,958	UK£164.1m	56.2%	0.11%
4.94%	T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	53,004,481	UK£160.7m	0%	0.02%
4.76%	Hotchkis and Wiley Capital Management, LLC	51,088,400	UK£154.9m	0.59%	0.61%
4.49%	Harris Associates L.P.	48,165,671	UK£146.0m	0%	0.25%
3.46%	Fidelity International Ltd	37,099,052	UK£112.5m	-52.6%	0.06%
2.7%	Aristotle Capital Management, LLC	28,998,050	UK£87.9m	32.9%	0.15%
1.57%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	16,867,513	UK£51.1m	1.88%	0.01%
1.19%	Allianz Asset Management GmbH	12,738,721	UK£38.6m	0%	0.05%
1.09%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	11,728,357	UK£35.6m	2.52%	no data
0.88%	Brandes Investment Partners, LP	9,447,494	UK£28.6m	23.6%	0.18%
0.87%	Hartford Funds Management Company, LLC	9,295,755	UK£28.2m	14.4%	0.11%
0.75%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	8,023,044	UK£24.3m	-2.17%	no data
0.65%	SEI Investments Company	6,995,227	UK£21.2m	-0.64%	0.03%
0.62%	Janus Henderson Group plc	6,609,952	UK£20.0m	0%	0.01%
0.56%	Jupiter Fund Management Plc	6,060,814	UK£18.4m	0%	0.07%
0.54%	Aberdeen Group Plc	5,844,199	UK£17.7m	0%	0.01%
0.52%	UBS Asset Management AG	5,618,939	UK£17.0m	-7.45%	no data
0.52%	BNY Asset Management	5,526,352	UK£16.8m	-0.14%	no data
0.51%	Amundi Asset Management SAS	5,463,799	UK£16.6m	0%	no data
0.51%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	5,418,891	UK£16.4m	1.2%	no data

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/11/21 17:07
End of Day Share Price	2025/11/21 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

^* Example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

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Analyst Sources

WPP plc is covered by 32 analysts. 10 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
JULIEN ROCH	Barclays
Sarah Simon	Berenberg
Daniel Salmon	BMO Capital Markets Equity Research