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 20 most recent| Filed | Filer | Company | Move | New % | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-20 yesterday | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Galenica AG | ↑ crossed above | 4.59% | regulator → |
| 2026-05-19 2d ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Galenica AG | ↑ crossed above | 4.65% | regulator → |
| 2026-05-16 5d ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Galenica AG | ↑ crossed above | 4.56% | regulator → |
| 2026-05-13 1w ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Galenica AG | ↑ crossed above | 4.66% | regulator → |
| 2026-05-09 1w ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Galenica AG | ↑ crossed above | 4.66% | regulator → |
| 2026-05-09 1w ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Galenica AG | ↑ crossed above | 4.62% | regulator → |
| 2026-05-06 2w ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Galenica AG | ↑ crossed above | 4.56% | regulator → |
| 2026-05-02 2w ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Galenica AG | ↑ crossed above | 4.64% | regulator → |
| 2026-04-24 3w ago | 🇨🇭Alecta Tjänstepension Ömsesidigt | Galenica AG | ↓ crossed below | 3.00% | regulator → |
| 2026-04-22 4w ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Galenica AG | ↑ crossed above | 4.58% | regulator → |
| 2026-04-17 1mo ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Galenica AG | ↑ crossed above | 4.67% | regulator → |
| 2026-04-15 1mo ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Galenica AG | ↑ crossed above | 4.62% | regulator → |
| 2026-04-11 1mo ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Galenica AG | ↑ crossed above | 4.63% | regulator → |
| 2026-04-11 1mo ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Galenica AG | ↑ crossed above | 4.58% | regulator → |
| 2026-04-08 1mo ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Galenica AG | ↑ crossed above | 4.68% | regulator → |
| 2026-04-02 1mo ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Galenica AG | ↑ crossed above | 4.59% | regulator → |
| 2026-04-01 1mo ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Galenica AG | ↑ crossed above | 4.62% | regulator → |
| 2026-03-18 2mo ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Galenica AG | ↑ crossed above | 4.64% | regulator → |
| 2026-03-14 2mo ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Galenica AG | ↑ crossed above | 4.63% | regulator → |
| 2026-03-11 2mo ago | 🇨🇭BlackRock, Inc. | Galenica AG | ↑ crossed above | 4.66% | 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.