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 4 most recent| Filed | Filer | Company | Move | New % | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-17 5mo ago | 🇩🇪Zours, Wilhelm Konrad Thomas | Enapter AG | disclosed | 3.74% | regulator → |
| 2025-12-15 5mo ago | 🇩🇪Zours, Wilhelm Konrad Thomas | 2invest AG | disclosed | 82.43% | regulator → |
| 2025-06-13 11mo ago | 🇩🇪Zours, Wilhelm Konrad Thomas | Epigenomics AG | disclosed | 85.81% | regulator → |
| 2025-06-12 11mo ago | 🇩🇪Zours, Wilhelm Konrad Thomas | United Labels Aktiengesellschaft | disclosed | 3.29% | 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.