AO World Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

LSE:AO. Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
01 Aug 24	SellUK£2,346,000	Christopher Hopkinson	Individual	2,000,000	UK£1.17
01 Aug 24	SellUK£8,072,997	John Roberts	Individual	6,882,350	UK£1.17
06 Mar 24	BuyUK£312,880	Christopher Hopkinson	Individual	344,961	UK£0.91

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 AO.?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Public Companies	153,677	0.027%
Employee Share Scheme	11,667,154	2.05%
General Public	14,223,002	2.5%
Hedge Funds	118,459,508	20.8%
Individual Insiders	118,717,355	20.9%
Private Companies	139,518,271	24.5%
Institutions	166,186,018	29.2%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 93.25% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
24.5%	MASH Holdings Limited	139,386,738	UK£150.5m	2.02%	no data
20.8%	Camelot Capital Partners LLC	118,459,508	UK£127.9m	0%	18.36%
16.9%	John Roberts	96,043,526	UK£103.7m	-5.22%	no data
5.67%	Phoenix Asset Management Partners Ltd.	32,255,000	UK£34.8m	-0.61%	2.79%
3.92%	Christopher Hopkinson	22,274,081	UK£24.1m	-9.57%	no data
3.36%	Lancaster Investment Management LLP	19,135,000	UK£20.7m	-2.74%	5.03%
2.8%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	15,916,461	UK£17.2m	2.39%	no data
2.49%	BlackRock, Inc.	14,183,336	UK£15.3m	3.69%	no data
2.05%	AO World Plc Employee Benefit Trust	11,667,154	UK£12.6m	954%	no data
1.8%	Union Bancaire Privee Asset Management LLC	10,229,500	UK£11.0m	0%	1.33%
1.44%	Macquarie Group, Ltd., Banking & Securities Investments	8,187,027	UK£8.8m	9,150%	0.06%
0.94%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	5,359,295	UK£5.8m	-2.07%	no data
0.73%	Odey Asset Management LLP	4,150,000	UK£4.5m	468%	0.83%
0.7%	East Coast Fund Management Inc.	4,000,000	UK£4.3m	0%	100.0%
0.65%	Premier Fund Managers Ltd.	3,669,547	UK£4.0m	85.7%	0.06%
0.64%	Rothschild Fund Management AG	3,647,649	UK£3.9m	-20%	1.22%
0.63%	Societe Generale Group, Banking Investments	3,599,931	UK£3.9m	166%	0.03%
0.5%	James Sharp & Co., Asset Management Arm	2,839,819	UK£3.1m	998%	0.44%
0.47%	Barclays PLC Private Banking & Investment Banking Investment	2,650,767	UK£2.9m	0%	no data
0.42%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	2,399,072	UK£2.6m	16.7%	no data
0.42%	The Royal Bank Of Scotland plc, Asset Management Arm	2,368,601	UK£2.6m	-55.5%	0.2%
0.39%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	2,213,305	UK£2.4m	-7.92%	no data
0.38%	Norges Bank Investment Management	2,140,551	UK£2.3m	-16.3%	no data
0.36%	Acadian Asset Management LLC	2,043,205	UK£2.2m	551%	0.01%
0.29%	Barclays Bank PLC, Wealth and Investment Management Division	1,677,104	UK£1.8m	-6.36%	0.02%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/24 06:10
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/24 00:00
Earnings	2024/09/30
Annual Earnings	2024/03/31

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

AO World plc is covered by 13 analysts. 3 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
Karl Burns	Canaccord Genuity
Caroline Gulliver	Equity Development Limited
Charlie Rothbarth	HSBC