The whale feed
Who just crossed 5%?
When anyone — family offices, activist funds, sovereign wealth, famous CEOs buying into other companies — crosses a 3–5% voting- rights threshold in an EU or UK listed company, they must disclose it within 2–4 trading days. A different signal from Article 19 PDMR filings — conviction across the table, not inside one.
Matching filings
Showing 7 most recent| Filed | Filer | Company | Move | New % | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-03 2mo ago | 🇩🇪Axxion S.A. | pferdewetten.de AG | disclosed | 13.24% | regulator → |
| 2026-01-07 4mo ago | 🇩🇪Axxion S.A. | Medios AG | disclosed | 6.09% | regulator → |
| 2026-01-06 4mo ago | 🇩🇪Axxion S.A. | Brockhaus Technologies AG | disclosed | 4.63% | regulator → |
| 2026-01-06 4mo ago | 🇩🇪Axxion S.A. | q.beyond AG | disclosed | 4.84% | regulator → |
| 2025-10-10 7mo ago | 🇩🇪Axxion S.A. | 7C Solarparken AG | disclosed | 3.03% | regulator → |
| 2025-09-09 8mo ago | 🇩🇪Axxion S.A. | elumeo SE | disclosed | 4.22% | regulator → |
| 2025-09-04 8mo ago | 🇩🇪Axxion S.A. | Aumann AG | disclosed | 3.08% | regulator → |
Why this signal matters
A CEO buying €1m of their own stock is confidence. A family office quietly accumulating 5% of a small listed industrial is conviction across the table — and often a leading indicator of an activist campaign, a take-private bid, a sovereign wealth allocation, or a cornerstone investment. Academic literature (Brav, Jiang, Kim 2010 on activism; Bebchuk et al 2013) consistently finds substantial outperformance in the months following 13D / equivalent filings in the US. Europe's Transparency Directive is the European equivalent.