Airtel Africa Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

NGSE:AIRTELAFRI Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Role	Shares	Max Price
30 Oct 25	Sell₦15,820,998	Liisa Poutiainen	Individual		3,000	₦5,273.67
06 Mar 25	Buy₦54,993,646,530	Bharti Airtel Limited	Company		20,000,000	₦2,749.68

Insider Trading Volume

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

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of AIRTELAFRI?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Individual Insiders	167,972	0.0046%
State or Government	1,013,120	0.0278%
Employee Share Scheme	3,213,117	0.0881%
General Public	99,749,392	2.73%
Private Companies	595,204,251	16.3%
Institutions	659,832,747	18.1%
Public Companies	2,288,691,385	62.7%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 92.98% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
62.7%	Bharti Airtel Limited	2,288,691,385	₦15.9t	0%	35.06%
16.3%	Bharti Overseas Pvt Ltd	595,204,251	₦4.1t	0%	no data
3.69%	Qatar Holding LLC	134,726,964	₦934.5b	0%	0.68%
0.92%	UBS Asset Management AG	33,696,160	₦233.7b	31%	0.01%
0.88%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	32,120,779	₦222.8b	15.7%	no data
0.86%	BlackRock, Inc.	31,247,644	₦216.7b	-36.6%	no data
0.76%	Vontobel Asset Management SA	27,863,100	₦193.3b	0%	2.0%
0.75%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	27,425,651	₦190.2b	6.79%	0.04%
0.7%	Société Générale Société anonyme	25,490,343	₦176.8b	59.2%	0.4%
0.58%	BNP Paribas SA	21,126,725	₦146.5b	146%	0.37%
0.57%	Amundi Asset Management SAS	20,656,797	₦143.3b	302%	0.02%
0.5%	Barclays Bank PLC	18,224,168	₦126.4b	254%	0.09%
0.39%	JPMorgan Chase & Co.	14,378,913	₦99.7b	8.04%	0.01%
0.39%	Norges Bank Investment Management	14,094,537	₦97.8b	-3.29%	no data
0.36%	Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Ltd.	13,072,847	₦90.7b	3.47%	0.12%
0.36%	LSV Asset Management	13,062,800	₦90.6b	-32.9%	0.12%
0.32%	Schroder Investment Management Limited	11,545,395	₦80.1b	-48.5%	0.03%
0.31%	Natixis S.A.	11,374,118	₦78.9b	272%	0.22%
0.29%	Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership	10,581,082	₦73.4b	0%	0.03%
0.28%	Aberdeen Group Plc	10,070,251	₦69.9b	-6.25%	0.02%
0.25%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	9,158,493	₦63.5b	6.68%	0.01%
0.25%	Candriam, Société En Commandite Par Actions	9,104,364	₦63.2b	-2.52%	0.11%
0.19%	Wellington Management Group LLP	7,091,783	₦49.2b	-59.2%	0.01%
0.17%	Breakout Capital Partners, L.P.	6,089,669	₦42.2b	-6.63%	16.39%
0.16%	Citigroup Inc.	5,696,573	₦39.5b	-29.4%	0.02%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2026/01/22 13:13
End of Day Share Price	2026/01/22 00:00
Earnings	2025/09/30
Annual Earnings	2025/03/31

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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

Airtel Africa Plc is covered by 16 analysts. 9 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
Ganesha Nagesha	Barclays
Cesar Tiron	BofA Global Research