Gestetner of Ceylon Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

COSE:GEST.N0000 Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
07 Oct 24	BuyLK₨91,871	Abbillawattha Palathe Gedara Pathmashika Geethanjalee	Individual	1,056	LK₨87.00
02 Oct 24	BuyLK₨8,790,002	Albert Rasiah	Individual	100,000	LK₨87.90
04 Sep 24	BuyLK₨271,449	Abbillawattha Palathe Gedara Pathmashika Geethanjalee	Individual	3,377	LK₨80.50

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 GEST.N0000?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
General Public	199,492	7.51%
Individual Insiders	824,777	31%
Private Companies	1,633,543	61.5%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 24 shareholders own 92.49% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
46.7%	Gestetner (Eastern) Limited	1,240,195	LK₨161.8m	0%	no data
13.5%	Senthilverl Holdings (Pvt) Ltd	358,447	LK₨46.8m	0%	no data
7.94%	C. De Fonseka	211,151	LK₨27.6m	0%	no data
5.09%	Albert Rasiah	135,385	LK₨17.7m	283%	no data
2.98%	S.A.J. Fonseka	79,139	LK₨10.3m	0%	no data
2.49%	O. Jayasundara	66,196	LK₨8.6m	0%	no data
2.49%	Sayed Jemaldeen Anzsar	66,070	LK₨8.6m	739%	no data
2.44%	Mohamed Inam	64,900	LK₨8.5m	0%	no data
1.3%	V. Baskarasundaram	34,650	LK₨4.5m	0%	no data
0.98%	M. Mahibalan	26,017	LK₨3.4m	0%	no data
0.78%	Hennedige Srinath Soysa	20,626	LK₨2.7m	0%	no data
0.71%	S. Gobinath	19,000	LK₨2.5m	0%	no data
0.69%	M. Mohideen	18,378	LK₨2.4m	0%	no data
0.61%	J. N. Phillips	16,199	LK₨2.1m	0%	no data
0.55%	Udayathilaka Indrapala	14,700	LK₨1.9m	-1.84%	no data
0.47%	M. Raaymakers	12,552	LK₨1.6m	0%	no data
0.46%	Estate of Mr A A N De Fonseka	12,100	LK₨1.6m	0%	no data
0.45%	Mohammed Ahamed	12,000	LK₨1.6m	0%	no data
0.45%	Prempra Capital (Pvt) Ltd	12,000	LK₨1.6m	0%	no data
0.41%	Arunasalam Sithampalam	10,989	LK₨1.4m	0%	no data
0.41%	Aruna Enterprises (Pvt.) Ltd	10,801	LK₨1.4m	0%	no data
0.4%	Dinal Mario Phillips	10,500	LK₨1.4m	0%	no data
0.17%	Abbillawattha Palathe Gedara Pathmashika Geethanjalee	4,433	LK₨578.5k	31.3%	no data
0.071%	Lakshman Watawala	1,892	LK₨246.9k	0%	no data

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/05/02 07:06
End of Day Share Price	2025/04/30 00:00
Earnings	2024/12/31
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

Gestetner of Ceylon PLC is covered by 0 analysts. 0 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.