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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-13 5mo ago | 🇨🇭Pictet Asset Management SA | Comet Holding AG$COMET | ↑ crossed above | 4.61% | regulator → |
| 2026-02-26 7mo ago | 🇨🇭Ernst Göhner Stiftung | Comet Holding AG$COMET | ↓ crossed below | 3.00% | regulator → |
| 2026-01-23 8mo ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Comet Holding AG$COMET | ↑ crossed above | 2.71% | regulator → |
| 2026-01-22 8mo ago | 🇨🇭Ernst Göhner Stiftung | Comet Holding AG$COMET | ↑ crossed above | 5.92% | regulator → |
| 2026-01-16 9mo ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Comet Holding AG$COMET | ↓ crossed below | 3.00% | regulator → |
| 2026-01-15 9mo ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Comet Holding AG$COMET | ↑ crossed above | 2.65% | regulator → |
| 2025-12-30 9mo ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Comet Holding AG$COMET | ↓ crossed below | 3.00% | regulator → |
| 2025-12-27 9mo ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Comet Holding AG$COMET | ↑ crossed above | 2.65% | regulator → |
| 2025-12-05 10mo ago | 🇨🇭Jane Street Group LLC | Comet Holding AG$COMET | ↓ crossed below | 3.00% | regulator → |
| 2025-12-05 10mo ago | 🇨🇭Jane Street Group LLC | Comet Holding AG$COMET | ↑ crossed above | 0.01% | regulator → |
| 2025-12-04 10mo ago | 🇨🇭Jane Street Group LLC | Comet Holding AG$COMET | ↑ crossed above | 0.01% | 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.