Hays Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

OTCPK:HAYP.F Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
02 Mar 26	BuyUS$13,299	Michael Findlay	Individual	25,500	US$0.52
28 Aug 25	BuyUS$302,629	Dirk Hahn	Individual	364,000	US$0.83
22 Aug 25	BuyUS$112,740	Dirk Hahn	Individual	130,000	US$0.87
21 Aug 25	BuyUS$26,721	Michael Findlay	Individual	33,415	US$0.80
21 Aug 25	BuyUS$1,660	Joseph Hurd	Individual	1,923	US$0.86

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 HAYP.F?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Individual Insiders	998,468	0.0624%
Private Companies	1,585,120	0.0991%
Employee Share Scheme	9,577,634	0.599%
General Public	62,685,642	3.92%
Hedge Funds	103,268,050	6.46%
Institutions	1,420,756,784	88.9%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 86.37% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
17.7%	Silchester International Investors LLP	283,311,283	US$175.9m	-0.23%	0.63%
9.23%	Fidelity International Ltd	147,571,724	US$91.6m	31.8%	0.03%
7.36%	Schroder Investment Management Limited	117,611,099	US$73.0m	8.66%	0.03%
6.46%	GLG Partners LP	103,268,050	US$64.1m	9.77%	0.55%
6.01%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	96,046,596	US$59.6m	-3.64%	0.01%
5.42%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	86,713,512	US$53.8m	-4.35%	no data
4.41%	Heronbridge Investment Management LLP	70,585,823	US$43.8m	-0.47%	3.84%
4.24%	BlackRock, Inc.	67,866,261	US$42.1m	-5.37%	no data
3.58%	Pzena Investment Management, Inc.	57,191,741	US$35.5m	-0.66%	0.05%
2.42%	Wellington Management Group LLP	38,624,503	US$24.0m	5.01%	no data
2.07%	Harris Associates L.P.	33,093,910	US$20.5m	3.17%	0.02%
1.69%	BNY Asset Management	27,041,995	US$16.8m	15.9%	no data
1.66%	Invesco Ltd.	26,480,851	US$16.4m	-11.6%	no data
1.63%	LGT Capital Partners (FL) Ltd.	26,024,000	US$16.2m	0.08%	0.4%
1.57%	Norges Bank Investment Management	25,033,357	US$15.5m	11.2%	no data
1.4%	Brandes Investment Partners, LP	22,382,672	US$13.9m	0%	0.06%
1.39%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	22,239,597	US$13.8m	-13.2%	no data
1.2%	Evenlode Investment Management Limited	19,245,019	US$11.9m	-17.4%	0.21%
1.14%	Aberdeen Group Plc	18,294,979	US$11.4m	1.41%	0.01%
1.09%	M&G Investment Management Limited	17,359,790	US$10.8m	-21.5%	0.02%
1.07%	Aviva Investors Global Services Ltd.	17,093,295	US$10.6m	0.39%	0.01%
0.94%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	15,006,973	US$9.3m	-23.5%	no data
0.9%	Jupiter Fund Management Plc	14,418,553	US$9.0m	-59.8%	0.02%
0.9%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	14,382,463	US$8.9m	13.9%	no data
0.88%	Barclays PLC	14,000,000	US$8.7m	0%	no data

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2026/01/17 09:55
End of Day Share Price	2025/10/20 00:00
Earnings	2025/06/30
Annual Earnings	2025/06/30

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

Hays plc is covered by 26 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
Paul Daniel Sullivan	Barclays
Afonso Osorio	Barclays
James Rowland Clark	Barclays