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 8 most recent| Filed | Filer | Company | Move | New % | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-17 7mo ago | 🇨🇭Alpha Capital AG, Bahnhofstrasse 71, 8001 Zürich | EvoNext Holdings SA | ↑ crossed above | 9.39% | regulator → |
| 2025-05-31 11mo ago | 🇨🇭Jürg Trepp | EvoNext Holdings SA | ↑ crossed above | 12.50% | regulator → |
| 2025-05-29 11mo ago | 🇨🇭Alpha Capital AG | EvoNext Holdings SA | ↑ crossed above | 9.39% | regulator → |
| 2025-05-24 12mo ago | 🇨🇭Alpha Capital AG | EvoNext Holdings SA | ↑ crossed above | 10.00% | regulator → |
| 2025-05-24 12mo ago | 🇨🇭Alpha Capital AG | EvoNext Holdings SA | ↑ crossed above | 3.10% | regulator → |
| 2025-05-23 12mo ago | 🇨🇭Alpha Capital AG, | EvoNext Holdings SA | ↑ crossed above | 7.38% | regulator → |
| 2025-05-23 12mo ago | 🇨🇭Alpha Capital AG | EvoNext Holdings SA | ↑ crossed above | 5.16% | regulator → |
| 2025-05-23 12mo ago | 🇨🇭Alpha Capital AG | EvoNext Holdings SA | ↑ crossed above | 10.04% | 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.