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 6 most recent| Filed | Filer | Company | Move | New % | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-20 yesterday | 🇩🇪DWS Investment GmbH | Elmos Semiconductor SE | disclosed | 3.44% | regulator → |
| 2026-05-15 6d ago | 🇩🇪Zimmer, Elke | Elmos Semiconductor SE | disclosed | 11.92% | regulator → |
| 2026-05-15 6d ago | 🇩🇪Dr. Weyer GmbH & Co. Vermögensverwaltung KG | Elmos Semiconductor SE | disclosed | 14.56% | regulator → |
| 2026-05-15 6d ago | 🇩🇪Zimmer, Prof. Dr. Günter | Elmos Semiconductor SE | disclosed | 11.92% | regulator → |
| 2026-03-09 2mo ago | 🇩🇪Elmos Semiconductor SE | Elmos Semiconductor SE | disclosed | 3.04% | regulator → |
| 2025-06-23 11mo ago | 🇩🇪Dr. Weyer GmbH & Co. Vermögensverwaltung KG | Elmos Semiconductor SE | disclosed | 20.70% | 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.