United Utilities Group Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

LSE:UU. Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Role	Shares	Max Price
16 Jun 25	SellUK£115,815	Simon Gardiner	Individual		10,000	UK£11.58
20 Sep 24	SellUK£52,444	Simon Gardiner	Individual		4,954	UK£10.59

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: UU. insiders have only sold shares in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of UU.?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Individual Insiders	212,527	0.0312%
Public Companies	405,247	0.0594%
State or Government	994,736	0.146%
Private Companies	1,711,178	0.251%
Employee Share Scheme	3,588,314	0.526%
General Public	103,763,814	15.2%
Institutions	571,212,602	83.8%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 59.33% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
9.31%	BlackRock, Inc.	63,463,482	UK£715.6m	-22.2%	0.01%
8.95%	Lazard Asset Management LLC	61,022,391	UK£688.0m	7.86%	0.77%
5.25%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	35,789,424	UK£403.5m	4.53%	0.01%
3.67%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	24,993,626	UK£281.8m	-12.2%	0.01%
3.64%	Amundi Asset Management SAS	24,823,759	UK£279.9m	-6.27%	0.06%
2.83%	Pictet Asset Management Limited	19,315,287	UK£217.8m	-6.67%	0.19%
2.26%	Aberdeen Group Plc	15,407,876	UK£173.7m	6.67%	0.13%
2.22%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	15,168,345	UK£171.0m	11.8%	0.01%
2.16%	Magellan Asset Management Limited	14,745,652	UK£166.3m	-13.4%	0.81%
2.12%	Norges Bank Investment Management	14,458,692	UK£163.0m	-3.43%	0.01%
1.94%	Impax Asset Management Group Plc	13,237,695	UK£149.3m	-28.6%	0.69%
1.92%	Atlas Infrastructure Holdings Pty Ltd.	13,124,974	UK£148.0m	-0.99%	30.7%
1.47%	Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Ltd.	10,050,926	UK£113.3m	-2.61%	0.3%
1.43%	Invesco Ltd.	9,765,667	UK£110.1m	15.8%	0.04%
1.39%	Northern Trust Global Investments	9,478,156	UK£106.9m	3.74%	0.02%
1.12%	UBS Asset Management AG	7,605,906	UK£85.8m	13.5%	0.01%
1.07%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	7,289,065	UK£82.2m	59.7%	0.04%
1.03%	Natixis, Investment Banking and Corporate Banking Investments	7,041,320	UK£79.4m	898%	0.44%
0.97%	Maple-Brown Abbott Limited	6,583,184	UK£74.2m	50.7%	4.11%
0.91%	Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management	6,228,543	UK£70.2m	61.8%	0.02%
0.87%	HBOS Investment Fund Managers Limited	5,899,069	UK£66.5m	-3.04%	0.53%
0.86%	ATLAS Infrastructure Partners (UK) Ltd	5,850,750	UK£66.0m	-19.9%	3.42%
0.68%	KBC Asset Management NV	4,630,505	UK£52.2m	1.83%	0.11%
0.64%	Janus Henderson Group plc	4,354,031	UK£49.1m	-1.2%	0.02%
0.62%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	4,243,961	UK£47.9m	4.77%	no data

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/07/31 00:52
End of Day Share Price	2025/07/31 00:00
Earnings	2025/03/31
Annual Earnings	2025/03/31

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

United Utilities Group PLC is covered by 29 analysts. 11 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
Dominic Nash	Barclays
Harry Wyburd	Barclays
Andrew Fisher	Berenberg