Zenith Bank 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 ZENITHBANK?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Private Companies	1,710,123	0.00416%
Employee Share Scheme	904,034,230	2.2%
Individual Insiders	5,711,130,052	13.9%
Institutions	7,875,253,643	19.2%
General Public	26,577,701,952	64.7%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have been substantially diluted in the past year, with total shares outstanding growing by 30.8%.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 35.25% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
12.4%	James Ovia	5,082,800,739	₦345.9b	0%	no data
6.98%	"CCB - Sila" Pension Fund JSC	2,866,674,134	₦195.1b	0%	83.75%
6.95%	Pension Insurance Company Saglasie AD	2,854,353,185	₦194.2b	0%	61.3%
2.22%	Allan Gray Proprietary Ltd.	910,709,655	₦62.0b	0%	0.31%
2.2%	Zenith Bank Staff Provident Fund	904,034,230	₦61.5b	0%	no data
0.99%	E. Egwuenu	405,139,499	₦27.6b	0%	no data
0.92%	Invesco Ltd.	379,197,283	₦25.8b	-12.9%	no data
0.44%	East Capital Asset Management AB	182,200,159	₦12.4b	0%	1.83%
0.43%	Russell Investment Management, LLC	175,206,000	₦11.9b	0%	0.01%
0.22%	Adaora Umeoji	90,192,856	₦6.1b	0%	no data
0.22%	Ebenezer Onyeagwu	90,176,078	₦6.1b	0%	no data
0.2%	Eaton Vance Management	82,950,000	₦5.6b	0%	no data
0.2%	SEI Investments Company	80,532,933	₦5.5b	0%	no data
0.18%	Fidelity International Ltd	73,228,951	₦5.0b	0%	no data
0.16%	Sanlam Investment Management (Pty) Ltd.	67,666,666	₦4.6b	0%	0.03%
0.16%	Mazi Asset Management (Pty) Ltd	65,503,012	₦4.5b	0%	1.23%
0.11%	Van Eck Associates Corporation	47,034,796	₦3.2b	14.9%	no data
0.097%	Tundra Fonder AB	40,000,000	₦2.7b	0%	0.2%
0.044%	Aberdeen Group Plc	18,143,852	₦1.2b	0%	no data
0.037%	Nwapa Stella	15,008,206	₦1.0b	0%	no data
0.036%	Henry Oroh	14,813,703	₦1.0b	0%	no data
0.027%	Amundi Asset Management SAS	10,995,012	₦748.2m	0%	no data
0.019%	Schroder Investment Management Limited	7,756,023	₦527.7m	0%	no data
0.018%	TRUSTUS Capital Management BV	7,372,234	₦501.7m	0%	0.48%
0.017%	Anthony Ogunranti	6,885,601	₦468.7m	0%	no data

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/10/16 04:56
End of Day Share Price	2025/10/16 00:00
Earnings	2025/06/30
Annual Earnings	2024/12/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

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

Zenith Bank Plc is covered by 18 analysts. 4 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
Timothy Wambu	Absa Bank Limited
null null	ARM Research
Jaap Meijer	Arqaam Capital Research Offshore S.A.L.