Woolworths Holdings Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

JSE:WHL Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Role	Shares	Max Price
25 Sep 24	SellR37,829,671	Samuel Ngumeni	Individual		574,588	R65.84
30 Apr 24	SellR6,717,510	Thembisa Skweyiya	Individual		5,944	R1,130.13

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: WHL insiders have only sold shares in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of WHL?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Individual Insiders	5,940,492	0.657%
Private Companies	84,378,341	9.33%
General Public	206,109,294	22.8%
Institutions	608,006,357	67.2%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 71.28% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
19.4%	Allan Gray Proprietary Ltd.	175,321,216	R11.0b	0%	5.94%
16.5%	Public Investment Corporation Limited	148,768,609	R9.3b	0%	0.87%
7.78%	Ninety One UK Limited	70,388,862	R4.4b	0%	0.35%
5.56%	BlackRock, Inc.	50,261,104	R3.1b	0%	no data
4.84%	E-Com Investments 16 Pty Ltd.	43,763,861	R2.7b	0%	no data
4.49%	Woolworths (Proprietary) Limited	40,614,480	R2.5b	0%	no data
4.03%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	36,435,699	R2.3b	0.26%	no data
1.93%	Norges Bank Investment Management	17,467,966	R1.1b	0%	no data
0.92%	Sanlam Investment Management (Pty) Ltd.	8,280,114	R518.7m	11.8%	0.34%
0.9%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	8,105,106	R507.7m	1.46%	no data
0.51%	Amundi Asset Management SAS	4,594,198	R287.8m	2.49%	no data
0.49%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	4,415,912	R276.6m	2.93%	no data
0.48%	UBS Asset Management AG	4,365,828	R273.5m	28.3%	no data
0.48%	Stanlib Collective Investments	4,342,715	R272.0m	-14.7%	1.07%
0.43%	Fidelity International Ltd	3,877,144	R242.9m	-13%	0.01%
0.35%	Roy Bagattini	3,169,530	R198.5m	0%	no data
0.33%	CaixaBank Asset Management, SGIIC, S.A.U.	3,003,016	R188.1m	0%	0.05%
0.33%	Andra AP-fonden	2,992,848	R187.5m	0%	0.06%
0.31%	Truffle Asset Management	2,793,726	R175.0m	8.87%	0.54%
0.25%	BNY Asset Management	2,282,020	R142.9m	-1.14%	no data
0.23%	Taquanta Asset Managers (Pty) Ltd.	2,086,012	R130.7m	0%	0.81%
0.22%	Polaris Capital South Africa	2,000,000	R125.3m	-24.5%	0.67%
0.21%	Northern Trust Global Investments	1,900,077	R119.0m	-0.63%	no data
0.2%	Funds and Advisory	1,765,671	R110.6m	0%	0.45%
0.19%	Storebrand Fonder AB,	1,701,815	R106.6m	0%	0.02%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/23 04:33
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/20 00:00
Earnings	2024/06/30
Annual Earnings	2024/06/30

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

Woolworths Holdings Limited is covered by 21 analysts. 8 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
Darren Cohn	Absa Bank Limited
Michael Malkoun	Arqaam Capital Research Offshore S.A.L.
Atiyyah Vawda	Avior Capital Markets