Western Asset Global Defined Opportunity Fund 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 GDO?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Institutions	2,128,850	28.3%
General Public	5,390,550	71.7%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 28.15% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
11.1%	First Trust Advisors LP	834,766	US$9.5m	-38%	0.01%
2.96%	Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking and Brokerage Investments	222,705	US$2.5m	-13.7%	no data
2.94%	Guggenheim Partners, LLC	221,426	US$2.5m	-11.1%	0.02%
1.29%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	97,270	US$1.1m	18.5%	no data
1.2%	Cerity Partners LLC	90,294	US$1.0m	0%	no data
1.09%	Raymond James Financial Inc., Asset Management Arm	82,336	US$936.2k	30.1%	no data
0.86%	Sowell Financial Services, LLC	64,350	US$731.7k	0%	0.03%
0.8%	Fiera Capital Corporation	60,454	US$687.4k	0%	no data
0.76%	Wolverine Asset Management, LLC	57,023	US$648.4k	0%	0.05%
0.76%	Dynamic Advisor Solutions LLC	56,864	US$646.5k	0%	0.02%
0.71%	UBS Asset Management AG	53,573	US$609.1k	-9.32%	no data
0.63%	Shaker Financial Services, LLC	47,496	US$540.0k	-5.94%	0.21%
0.55%	Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Banking Investments	41,003	US$466.2k	-82.3%	no data
0.38%	1607 Capital Partners, LLC	28,400	US$322.9k	0%	0.01%
0.27%	NewEdge Advisors, LLC	20,270	US$230.5k	-6.03%	no data
0.26%	Wells Fargo & Company, Securities and Brokerage Investments	19,404	US$220.6k	-92.4%	no data
0.25%	Sanctuary Advisors, LLC	18,565	US$211.1k	-6.23%	no data
0.24%	Royal Bank of Canada, Banking & Securities Investments	18,413	US$209.4k	67.5%	no data
0.23%	Commonwealth Equity Services, LLC	17,617	US$200.3k	-29.4%	no data
0.21%	Huntleigh Advisors, Inc.	15,891	US$180.7k	-11.2%	0.04%
0.2%	International Assets Investment Management, LLC	14,984	US$170.4k	0%	no data
0.15%	Cetera Investment Advisers LLC	11,611	US$132.0k	2.91%	no data
0.14%	Invesco Ltd.	10,829	US$123.1k	-0.4%	no data
0.098%	Osaic Wealth, Inc. , Asset Management Arm	7,344	US$83.5k	0%	no data
0.046%	Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company	3,458	US$39.3k	4.19%	no data

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/05/12 08:12
End of Day Share Price	2025/05/12 00:00
Earnings	N/A
Annual Earnings	N/A

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

Western Asset Global Corporate Defined Opportunity Fund Inc. is covered by 0 analysts. 0 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.