Designer Brands Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

NYSE:DBI Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
26 Dec 25	SellUS$104,840	Joanna Lau	Individual	13,105	US$8.00
11 Dec 25	SellUS$1,146,753	Deborah Ferree	Individual	142,277	US$8.06
11 Sep 25	SellUS$226,000	Harvey Sonnenberg	Individual	50,000	US$4.52
10 Sep 25	SellUS$53,846	Mark Haley	Individual	11,218	US$4.80
08 Apr 25	SellUS$72,233	Mary Turner	Individual	24,543	US$2.94

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 DBI?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Private Companies	1,273,099	2.39%
Hedge Funds	5,500,000	10.3%
Individual Insiders	14,735,901	27.7%
Institutions	31,700,282	59.6%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 89.19% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
24.4%	Jay Schottenstein	12,087,367	US$68.3m	0.26%	no data
11.1%	Stone House Capital Management, LLC	5,500,000	US$31.1m	0%	38.27%
5.68%	BlackRock, Inc.	2,816,914	US$15.9m	2.79%	no data
4.4%	Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc.	2,185,825	US$12.3m	28.5%	no data
4.06%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	2,016,431	US$11.4m	-6.25%	no data
3.64%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	1,807,814	US$10.2m	-6.69%	no data
3.27%	Raymond James Financial, Inc.	1,622,528	US$9.2m	-24.9%	no data
3.04%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	1,508,376	US$8.5m	1.39%	no data
2.62%	American Century Investment Management Inc	1,300,460	US$7.3m	9.34%	no data
2.56%	Schottenstein Realty Llc	1,273,099	US$7.2m	0%	no data
2.36%	Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership	1,170,294	US$6.6m	-17.4%	no data
2.34%	Susan Diamond	1,161,436	US$6.6m	0%	no data
2.17%	UBS Asset Management AG	1,075,167	US$6.1m	62%	no data
2.01%	Pleasant Lake Partners LLC	1,000,000	US$5.6m	0%	0.76%
1.94%	Two Sigma Investments, LP	960,798	US$5.4m	42.5%	0.01%
1.85%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	918,978	US$5.2m	-4.15%	no data
1.71%	D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.	849,479	US$4.8m	72.6%	no data
1.66%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	823,792	US$4.7m	-1.44%	no data
1.59%	Bridgeway Capital Management, LLC	786,976	US$4.4m	-5.24%	0.06%
1.58%	Two Sigma Advisers, LP	784,484	US$4.4m	18.5%	0.01%
1.33%	Group One Trading LLC	660,731	US$3.7m	20.6%	0.1%
1.2%	Pacific Investment Management Company LLC	594,865	US$3.4m	41.8%	0.01%
1.01%	Union Square Park Capital Management, LLC	500,000	US$2.8m	-50%	2.3%
0.9%	Yarger Wealth Strategies, LLC	446,690	US$2.5m	-41%	1.05%
0.84%	Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc	415,741	US$2.3m	-26%	0.01%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2026/03/27 22:05
End of Day Share Price	2026/03/27 00:00
Earnings	2026/01/31
Annual Earnings	2026/01/31

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

Designer Brands Inc. is covered by 18 analysts. 2 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
Camilo Lyon	Canaccord Genuity
Jeff Black	Citigroup Inc
Steven Marotta	CL King & Associates, Inc.