Lincoln Electric Holdings Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

NasdaqGS:LECO Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Role	Shares	Max Price
12 Dec 24	SellUS$305,626	Michael Whitehead	Individual		1,474	US$207.34
06 Sep 24	SellUS$193,551	Michael Whitehead	Individual		1,100	US$175.96

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 LECO?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
State or Government	47,487	0.0842%
Individual Insiders	376,233	0.667%
General Public	10,289,115	18.2%
Institutions	45,712,968	81%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 55.76% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
9.93%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	5,601,734	US$1.1b	0.34%	0.02%
9.38%	BlackRock, Inc.	5,294,626	US$1.0b	2.92%	0.02%
4.56%	EdgePoint Investment Group Inc.	2,572,410	US$491.3m	-3.99%	2.49%
4.54%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	2,563,600	US$489.6m	4.12%	0.02%
2.91%	Norges Bank Investment Management	1,639,428	US$313.1m	0.76%	0.02%
2.9%	JP Morgan Asset Management	1,638,513	US$312.9m	14.8%	0.03%
2.19%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	1,235,582	US$236.0m	2.58%	0.02%
2.06%	Victory Capital Management Inc.	1,163,119	US$222.1m	5.93%	0.21%
1.35%	Macquarie Investment Management Business Trust	761,473	US$145.4m	-0.29%	0.18%
1.29%	First Trust Advisors LP	726,112	US$138.7m	11.6%	0.11%
1.26%	Keybank National Association, Asset Management Arm	708,933	US$135.4m	-4.14%	0.53%
1.24%	Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Endowment Arm	700,277	US$133.7m	0%	100.0%
1.19%	Park Edge Advisors, LLC	670,889	US$128.1m	0%	37.87%
1.08%	Invesco Capital Management LLC	608,834	US$116.3m	-10.7%	0.04%
1.04%	Champlain Investment Partners, LLC	587,090	US$112.1m	0%	0.75%
0.96%	BNY Asset Management	542,658	US$103.6m	2.51%	0.02%
0.95%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	535,434	US$102.3m	0.59%	0.02%
0.95%	UBS Asset Management AG	534,648	US$102.1m	51.6%	0.01%
0.93%	Invesco Ltd.	526,707	US$100.6m	-0.03%	0.03%
0.9%	Northern Trust Global Investments	508,686	US$97.1m	29.5%	0.01%
0.9%	Fisher Asset Management, LLC	505,701	US$96.6m	4.84%	0.04%
0.87%	Raymond James Financial Inc., Asset Management Arm	491,369	US$93.8m	315%	0.04%
0.84%	Eagle Asset Management, Inc.	472,963	US$90.3m	0%	0.61%
0.78%	Capital Research and Management Company	437,459	US$83.5m	-63.3%	no data
0.77%	Thrivent Investment Management Inc.	433,386	US$82.8m	-0.29%	0.16%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/03/18 14:54
End of Day Share Price	2025/03/18 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

Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. is covered by 28 analysts. 10 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
Mircea Dobre	Baird
Adam Seiden	Barclays
Walter Liptak	Barrington Research Associates, Inc.