FirstGroup Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

BATS-CHIXE:FGPL Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
18 Mar 26	BuyUK£49,641	Graham Sutherland	Individual	29,543	UK£1.68
18 Mar 26	BuyUK£10,264	Lena Wilson	Individual	6,000	UK£1.71
19 Nov 25	BuyUK£19,635	Lena Wilson	Individual	11,000	UK£1.78
19 Nov 25	BuyUK£89,300	Graham Sutherland	Individual	50,000	UK£1.79
19 Aug 25	SellUK£450,508	Graham Sutherland	Individual	199,428	UK£2.26
15 Aug 25	BuyUK£438	Ryan Mangold	Individual	192	UK£2.28

Insider Trading Volume

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

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of FGPL?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Public Companies	116,561	0.0215%
State or Government	1,053,668	0.194%
Individual Insiders	1,728,008	0.318%
Private Companies	20,124,599	3.71%
General Public	27,082,138	4.99%
Employee Share Scheme	33,690,487	6.2%
Institutions	459,333,946	84.6%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 75.91% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
9.64%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	52,341,673	UK£89.5m	-5.63%	0.02%
7.88%	BlackRock, Inc.	42,811,511	UK£73.2m	-0.85%	no data
6.34%	Schroder Investment Management Limited	34,426,055	UK£58.8m	-10.9%	0.04%
6.2%	Firstgroup Plc, ESOP	33,690,487	UK£57.6m	1.88%	no data
5.5%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	29,887,936	UK£51.1m	1.37%	no data
4.9%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	26,626,553	UK£45.5m	-1.36%	0.01%
3.62%	American Century Investment Management Inc	19,668,438	UK£33.6m	9%	0.02%
3.34%	Equiniti Trust (Jersey) Limited	18,118,584	UK£31.0m	0%	no data
2.98%	J O Hambro Capital Management Limited	16,169,887	UK£27.6m	35.9%	0.33%
2.62%	Aberforth Partners LLP	14,253,640	UK£24.4m	-1.35%	1.32%
2.32%	JP Morgan Asset Management	12,608,957	UK£21.5m	0.38%	no data
2.16%	Société Générale Société anonyme	11,731,867	UK£20.0m	-8.5%	0.08%
1.94%	Aberdeen Group Plc	10,562,140	UK£18.1m	-0.64%	0.01%
1.9%	LSV Asset Management	10,307,803	UK£17.6m	2.22%	0.05%
1.85%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	10,060,004	UK£17.2m	-20.5%	no data
1.74%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	9,440,071	UK£16.1m	1.81%	no data
1.64%	UBS Asset Management AG	8,881,557	UK£15.2m	-9.39%	no data
1.5%	Acadian Asset Management LLC	8,123,670	UK£13.9m	-16.3%	0.03%
1.4%	Artemis Investment Management LLP	7,600,000	UK£13.0m	-17.3%	0.05%
1.32%	Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System	7,167,515	UK£12.2m	0%	0.08%
1.18%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	6,426,478	UK£11.0m	-3.06%	no data
1.15%	Invesco Ltd.	6,230,170	UK£10.6m	5.17%	no data
1.08%	Barclays Bank PLC	5,878,580	UK£10.0m	-40.3%	0.02%
0.86%	The Bank of Nova Scotia	4,682,625	UK£8.0m	60.4%	0.01%
0.85%	Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Ltd.	4,595,234	UK£7.9m	1.6%	0.02%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2026/03/24 19:32
End of Day Share Price	2026/03/23 00:00
Earnings	2025/09/27
Annual Earnings	2025/03/29

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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

FirstGroup plc is covered by 21 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
David Fintzen	Barclays
Jack Cummings	Berenberg
James Edward Hollins	BNP Paribas