Valaris Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

NYSE:VAL Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
27 Nov 24	BuyUS$36,069,194	John Fredriksen	Individual	734,274	US$54.50
05 Nov 24	SellUS$198,000	Christopher Weber	Individual	4,000	US$49.50
30 Sep 24	SellUS$1,449,994	Matthew Lyne	Individual	26,000	US$55.77
23 Sep 24	BuyUS$32,783,695	John Fredriksen	Individual	571,969	US$60.93
09 Sep 24	SellUS$872,426	Davor Vukadin	Individual	15,403	US$56.64
09 Sep 24	SellUS$1,705,800	Gilles Luca	Individual	30,000	US$56.86

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: VAL insiders have bought more shares than they have sold in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of VAL?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
State or Government	37,104	0.0479%
Hedge Funds	4,788,982	6.18%
Individual Insiders	7,126,743	9.2%
Institutions	65,551,794	84.6%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 83.75% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
10.9%	BlackRock, Inc.	7,729,766	US$316.3m	4.28%	0.01%
9.42%	John Fredriksen	6,696,396	US$274.0m	12.3%	no data
9.04%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	6,430,650	US$263.1m	1.08%	no data
7.27%	Orbis Investment Management Limited	5,172,821	US$211.7m	-11.1%	0.69%
6.73%	Oak Hill Advisors, L.P.	4,788,982	US$196.0m	0%	43.17%
6.37%	FMR LLC	4,527,076	US$185.2m	-9.39%	0.01%
4.99%	Lingotto Investment Management LLP	3,549,787	US$145.3m	16.8%	3.36%
3.44%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	2,446,006	US$100.1m	4.81%	no data
2.75%	Condire Investors, LLC	1,952,960	US$79.9m	36.7%	10.25%
2.49%	Lodbrok Capital LLP	1,771,340	US$72.5m	0%	32.26%
2.14%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	1,519,644	US$62.2m	4.56%	no data
2.08%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	1,479,273	US$60.5m	24.4%	0.01%
2.03%	Wellington Management Group LLP	1,445,567	US$59.2m	-36.1%	0.01%
1.64%	Fidelity International Ltd	1,164,969	US$47.7m	37.9%	0.02%
1.34%	Van Eck Associates Corporation	955,470	US$39.1m	-13.9%	0.04%
1.34%	Praetorian PR LLC	950,000	US$38.9m	18.8%	19.56%
1.27%	KGH Ltd.	902,000	US$36.9m	42.1%	2.42%
1.23%	JPMorgan Chase & Co, Brokerage and Securities Investments	873,254	US$35.7m	84.3%	0.02%
1.2%	Platinum Investment Management Limited	856,630	US$35.1m	-0.26%	1.26%
1.12%	Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc.	797,060	US$32.6m	3.78%	0.01%
1.05%	Principal Global Investors, LLC	747,436	US$30.6m	-1.63%	0.02%
1.03%	Northern Trust Global Investments	730,301	US$29.9m	4.07%	no data
1.03%	Voya Investment Management LLC	729,570	US$29.9m	-0.06%	0.03%
0.95%	Slate Path Capital LP	677,000	US$27.7m	-23.2%	0.46%
0.94%	Waverton Investment Management Limited	670,885	US$27.5m	20.4%	0.33%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/20 12:51
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/20 00:00
Earnings	2024/09/30
Annual Earnings	2023/12/31

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

Valaris Limited is covered by 65 analysts. 11 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
Kristoffer Iden	Arctic Securities ASA
Ishan Majumdar	Baptista Research
Eddie Kim	Barclays