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.
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Matching filings
Showing 11 most recent| Filed | Filer | Company | Move | New % | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-19 2d ago | 🇩🇪The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | CECONOMY AG | disclosed | 5.74% | regulator → |
| 2026-05-15 6d ago | 🇩🇪The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | CECONOMY AG | disclosed | 5.49% | regulator → |
| 2026-04-30 3w ago | 🇩🇪The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | CECONOMY AG | disclosed | 5.30% | regulator → |
| 2026-04-24 3w ago | 🇩🇪The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | CECONOMY AG | disclosed | 5.33% | regulator → |
| 2026-04-21 1mo ago | 🇩🇪The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | CECONOMY AG | disclosed | 5.42% | regulator → |
| 2026-04-17 1mo ago | 🇩🇪The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | CECONOMY AG | disclosed | 5.54% | regulator → |
| 2026-04-15 1mo ago | 🇩🇪The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | CECONOMY AG | disclosed | 5.76% | regulator → |
| 2026-04-10 1mo ago | 🇩🇪The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | CECONOMY AG | disclosed | 5.43% | regulator → |
| 2026-03-06 2mo ago | 🇩🇪UBS Group AG | CECONOMY AG | disclosed | 4.44% | regulator → |
| 2025-10-30 6mo ago | 🇩🇪Morgan Stanley | CECONOMY AG | disclosed | 4.92% | regulator → |
| 2025-09-10 8mo ago | 🇩🇪Liu, Richard Qiangdong | CECONOMY AG | disclosed | 25.35% | 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.