Safaricom 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 SCOM?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Individual Insiders	7,890,279	0.0197%
Institutions	1,374,730,307	3.43%
General Public	8,660,234,834	21.6%
State or Government	14,022,572,580	35%
Public Companies	16,000,000,000	39.9%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 78.1% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
39.9%	Vodafone Group Public Limited Company	16,000,000,000	KSh278.4b	0%	no data
35%	Kenya	14,022,572,580	KSh244.0b	0%	no data
0.8%	Norges Bank Investment Management	321,983,789	KSh5.6b	0%	no data
0.3%	Baillie Gifford & Co.	118,879,460	KSh2.1b	-3.08%	0.01%
0.27%	Schroder Investment Management Limited	107,920,868	KSh1.9b	0%	0.01%
0.2%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	80,587,152	KSh1.4b	0%	no data
0.17%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	68,106,100	KSh1.2b	0%	no data
0.16%	Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd.	64,542,266	KSh1.1b	0%	no data
0.16%	MCP Emerging Markets LLP	64,164,452	KSh1.1b	0%	2.67%
0.13%	Harding Loevner LP	51,046,600	KSh888.2m	0%	0.03%
0.12%	Mazi Asset Management (Pty) Ltd	46,510,867	KSh809.3m	0.66%	3.44%
0.11%	Russell Investment Management, LLC	43,767,000	KSh761.6m	0%	0.01%
0.089%	FMR LLC	35,697,883	KSh621.2m	0%	no data
0.083%	East Capital Asset Management AB	33,390,100	KSh581.0m	0%	0.95%
0.077%	Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P.	31,000,000	KSh539.4m	0%	no data
0.069%	Coeli Frontier Markets AB	27,635,900	KSh480.9m	0%	2.0%
0.066%	BlackRock, Inc.	26,541,462	KSh461.9m	0%	no data
0.065%	Franklin Resources, Inc.	26,152,892	KSh455.1m	0%	no data
0.063%	ARK Investment Management LLC	25,284,214	KSh440.0m	0%	0.03%
0.054%	LGPS Central Limited	21,445,800	KSh373.2m	0%	0.02%
0.042%	M&G Luxembourg SA	16,916,456	KSh294.3m	0%	0.38%
0.037%	Eaton Vance Management	14,636,272	KSh254.7m	0%	no data
0.034%	FIM Asset Management Ltd.	13,500,000	KSh234.9m	0%	0.13%
0.034%	Lombard Odier Asset Management (Europe) Ltd.	13,500,000	KSh234.9m	0%	0.03%
0.033%	Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc.	13,317,045	KSh231.7m	0%	no data

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/04/23 03:38
End of Day Share Price	2025/04/23 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

Safaricom PLC is covered by 20 analysts. 6 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
Linet Muriungi	Absa Bank Limited
Maureen Kirigua	African Alliance
null null	AIB-AXYS Africa Limited