Grainger Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

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 GRI?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
State or Government	352,720	0.0478%
Individual Insiders	1,043,495	0.141%
Public Companies	1,085,313	0.147%
Private Companies	1,322,986	0.179%
Employee Share Scheme	3,874,433	0.525%
General Public	18,865,014	2.56%
Sovereign Wealth Funds	67,692,124	9.17%
Institutions	644,014,214	87.2%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 70.94% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
9.95%	BlackRock, Inc.	73,454,214	UK£156.8m	2.55%	no data
9.17%	Norges Bank Investment Management	67,692,124	UK£144.5m	0%	0.02%
5.57%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	41,123,842	UK£87.8m	-2.01%	no data
4.55%	Massachusetts Financial Services Company	33,580,279	UK£71.7m	7.03%	0.02%
3.64%	FMR LLC	26,869,723	UK£57.4m	2.26%	no data
3.41%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	25,187,790	UK£53.8m	-5.99%	0.01%
3.33%	Liontrust Asset Management PLC	24,551,769	UK£52.4m	9,760%	0.31%
3.32%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	24,500,590	UK£52.3m	-1.79%	0.02%
2.67%	AXA Investment Managers S.A.	19,686,729	UK£42.0m	2.54%	0.11%
2.49%	Martin Currie Ltd.	18,376,023	UK£39.2m	-18.8%	0.68%
2.49%	Canada Pension Plan Investment Board	18,355,438	UK£39.2m	16.4%	0.05%
2.41%	GLG Partners LP	17,791,582	UK£38.0m	4.33%	0.6%
1.94%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	14,337,532	UK£30.6m	0.02%	no data
1.85%	Aberdeen Group Plc	13,690,431	UK£29.2m	6.25%	0.02%
1.78%	Cohen & Steers Capital Management, Inc.	13,130,926	UK£28.0m	-31.4%	0.07%
1.72%	Aegon Asset Management UK Plc	12,699,572	UK£27.1m	-6.7%	0.19%
1.42%	Royal London Asset Management Ltd.	10,500,786	UK£22.4m	-9.98%	0.04%
1.33%	Wesleyan Unit Trust Managers Ltd.	9,790,752	UK£20.9m	-9.61%	0.94%
1.27%	Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management	9,377,566	UK£20.0m	3.7%	0.01%
1.26%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	9,323,845	UK£19.9m	20.8%	0.01%
1.25%	UBS Asset Management AG	9,223,191	UK£19.7m	37.6%	no data
1.1%	Internationale Kapitalanlagegesellschaft Mit Beschränkter Haftung	8,100,796	UK£17.3m	4.17%	1.36%
1.06%	BNPP Asset Management Holding	7,804,605	UK£16.7m	-20.3%	0.04%
0.99%	Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Ltd.	7,319,288	UK£15.6m	16.8%	0.05%
0.98%	Border To Coast Pensions Partnership Limited	7,239,786	UK£15.5m	54.6%	0.1%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/04/29 07:18
End of Day Share Price	2025/04/29 00:00
Earnings	2024/09/30
Annual Earnings	2024/09/30

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

Grainger plc is covered by 20 analysts. 5 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
Eleanor Frew	Barclays
Eleanor Frew	Barclays
Sander Bunck	Barclays