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 | 🇩🇪DWS Investment GmbH | PVA TePla AG | disclosed | 3.05% | regulator → |
| 2026-05-13 1w ago | 🇩🇪Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management N.V. | PVA TePla AG | disclosed | 9.99% | regulator → |
| 2026-05-12 1w ago | 🇩🇪DWS Investment GmbH | PVA TePla AG | disclosed | 3.02% | regulator → |
| 2026-05-06 2w ago | 🇩🇪Morgan Stanley | PVA TePla AG | disclosed | 5.23% | regulator → |
| 2026-04-10 1mo ago | 🇩🇪Lazard Frères Gestion S.A.S. | PVA TePla AG | disclosed | 4.95% | regulator → |
| 2026-04-08 1mo ago | 🇩🇪Driehaus Trust Company, LLC | PVA TePla AG | disclosed | 3.38% | regulator → |
| 2026-03-26 1mo ago | 🇩🇪Morgan Stanley | PVA TePla AG | disclosed | 4.04% | regulator → |
| 2026-01-20 4mo ago | 🇩🇪Hoek, Nicolaas | PVA TePla AG | disclosed | 5.06% | regulator → |
| 2025-09-11 8mo ago | 🇩🇪van Caldenborgh, Joseph | PVA TePla AG | disclosed | 5.00% | regulator → |
| 2025-09-11 8mo ago | 🇩🇪SPICE THREE Investment Coöperatief U.A. | PVA TePla AG | disclosed | 3.04% | regulator → |
| 2025-05-28 11mo ago | 🇩🇪JANUS HENDERSON GROUP PLC | PVA TePla AG | disclosed | 4.35% | 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.