BAE Systems Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

BMV:BA1 N Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Role	Shares	Max Price
24 Mar 25	SellMex$33,221,369	Thomas Arseneault	Individual		80,294	Mex$413.75

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: BA1 N insiders have only sold shares in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of BA1 N?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Public Companies	607,503	0.0203%
State or Government	2,227,266	0.0743%
Individual Insiders	2,757,445	0.092%
Private Companies	3,606,969	0.12%
Employee Share Scheme	120,992,315	4.04%
General Public	375,894,634	12.5%
Institutions	2,491,986,480	83.1%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 60.68% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
13.8%	Capital Research and Management Company	413,255,181	Mex$180.8b	0.31%	0.45%
7.96%	BlackRock, Inc.	238,598,838	Mex$104.4b	-1.05%	0.09%
5.07%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	151,881,677	Mex$66.5b	0.55%	0.05%
4.83%	FMR LLC	144,691,491	Mex$63.3b	-4.82%	0.2%
4.4%	WCM Investment Management, LLC	131,829,647	Mex$57.7b	94.4%	4.47%
4.04%	Bae Systems plc, ESOP	120,992,315	Mex$52.9b	-0.36%	100.0%
1.88%	UBS Asset Management AG	56,355,379	Mex$24.7b	23.8%	0.11%
1.8%	Artisan Partners Limited Partnership	54,091,204	Mex$23.7b	-6.16%	0.96%
1.7%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	50,997,146	Mex$22.3b	-1.2%	0.04%
1.64%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	49,033,627	Mex$21.5b	-2.71%	0.24%
1.55%	First Eagle Investment Management, LLC	46,562,192	Mex$20.4b	-7.84%	1.31%
1.43%	Janus Henderson Group plc	42,763,077	Mex$18.7b	-1.08%	0.41%
1.38%	Wellington Management Group LLP	41,291,588	Mex$18.1b	9.24%	0.16%
0.95%	Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Ltd.	28,459,399	Mex$12.5b	0.87%	1.47%
0.94%	Orbis Investment Management Limited	28,084,288	Mex$12.3b	-3.17%	2.08%
0.92%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	27,615,936	Mex$12.1b	48.2%	0.26%
0.89%	Principal Global Investors, LLC	26,613,877	Mex$11.6b	20.6%	0.3%
0.79%	Invesco Ltd.	23,833,197	Mex$10.4b	15%	0.15%
0.76%	GIC Private Limited	22,765,017	Mex$10.0b	66.3%	0.96%
0.75%	Franklin Resources, Inc.	22,625,290	Mex$9.9b	-11.7%	0.18%
0.75%	Aviva Investors Global Services Ltd.	22,486,014	Mex$9.8b	6.91%	0.75%
0.64%	Deka Investment GmbH	19,199,234	Mex$8.4b	6.42%	0.37%
0.62%	Select Equity Group, L.P.	18,671,250	Mex$8.2b	11.2%	1.65%
0.62%	Mawer Investment Management Ltd.	18,636,783	Mex$8.2b	-0.07%	0.96%
0.6%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	18,021,179	Mex$7.9b	0.31%	0.03%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/04/27 07:20
End of Day Share Price	2025/01/28 00:00
Earnings	2024/12/31
Annual Earnings	2024/12/31

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

BAE Systems plc is covered by 49 analysts. 16 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
Pierre-Yves Gauthier	AlphaValue
Guy Brown	Arden Partners Plc.
Joseph Campbell	Barclays