AstraZeneca Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

LSE:AZN Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
15 Nov 24	BuyUK£200,607	Michel Demare	Individual	2,000	UK£100.30
14 Nov 24	BuyUK£2,040,600	Pascal Soriot	Individual	20,000	UK£102.03
13 Nov 24	BuyUK£99,665	Philip John Broadley	Individual	980	UK£101.70
13 Sep 24	BuyUK£235,855	Michel Demare	Individual	2,000	UK£117.93

Insider Trading Volume

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

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of AZN?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Individual Insiders	456,927	0.0295%
Public Companies	679,178	0.0438%
Private Companies	1,630,730	0.105%
State or Government	2,579,840	0.166%
General Public	208,509,068	13.4%
Institutions	1,336,431,602	86.2%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 54.89% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
9.91%	Capital Research and Management Company	153,619,573	UK£16.1b	-1.23%	0.93%
8.78%	BlackRock, Inc.	136,140,728	UK£14.3b	1.01%	0.28%
5.09%	Wellington Management Group LLP	78,942,522	UK£8.3b	-4.37%	1.59%
4.73%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	73,262,555	UK£7.7b	0.64%	0.14%
3.33%	Investor AB (publ)	51,587,810	UK£5.4b	0%	10.83%
2.07%	Norges Bank Investment Management	32,168,351	UK£3.4b	-2.43%	0.33%
2.06%	T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	31,895,872	UK£3.4b	0.04%	0.36%
1.96%	FMR LLC	30,401,183	UK£3.2b	0.03%	0.23%
1.82%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	28,168,368	UK£3.0b	0.96%	0.13%
1.69%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	26,164,247	UK£2.7b	-0.49%	0.6%
1.61%	GQG Partners LLC	24,885,720	UK£2.6b	7.66%	2.63%
1.35%	PRIMECAP Management Company	20,990,022	UK£2.2b	-1.45%	1.95%
1.34%	UBS Asset Management AG	20,721,841	UK£2.2b	-5.11%	0.26%
1.19%	Amundi Asset Management SAS	18,388,181	UK£1.9b	15.2%	0.48%
1.07%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	16,591,105	UK£1.7b	19%	0.86%
0.83%	WCM Investment Management, LLC	12,794,508	UK£1.3b	0.2%	2.46%
0.78%	Aviva Investors Global Services Ltd.	12,105,932	UK£1.3b	3.09%	2.07%
0.78%	JP Morgan Asset Management	12,091,465	UK£1.3b	-11.1%	0.17%
0.71%	Invesco Ltd.	11,022,526	UK£1.2b	0.1%	0.37%
0.67%	abrdn plc	10,462,059	UK£1.1b	0.52%	1.04%
0.67%	Janus Henderson Group plc	10,384,299	UK£1.1b	1.77%	0.53%
0.67%	Northern Trust Global Investments	10,328,643	UK£1.1b	-1.34%	0.2%
0.64%	Royal London Asset Management Ltd.	9,867,356	UK£1.0b	0.05%	1.61%
0.61%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	9,453,684	UK£993.2m	6.34%	0.08%
0.55%	Franklin Resources, Inc.	8,569,012	UK£900.3m	-6.01%	0.38%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/17 09:09
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/17 00:00
Earnings	2024/09/30
Annual Earnings	2023/12/31

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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

AstraZeneca PLC is covered by 80 analysts. 24 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
Peter Ankersen	ABG Sundal Collier
Kamla Singh	AlphaValue
John Eade	Argus Research Company