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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-25 1w ago | 🇩🇪JPMORGAN CHASE & CO | SMA Solar Technology AG | disclosed | 14.91% | regulator → |
| 2026-08-20 1w ago | 🇩🇪JPMORGAN CHASE & CO | SMA Solar Technology AG | disclosed | 10.28% | regulator → |
| 2026-07-23 1mo ago | 🇩🇪Union Investment Management GmbH | SMA Solar Technology AG | disclosed | 5.33% | regulator → |
| 2026-07-17 1mo ago | 🇩🇪Bitten og Mads Clausens Fond | SMA Solar Technology AG | disclosed | 20.00% | regulator → |
| 2026-07-16 1mo ago | 🇩🇪JPMORGAN CHASE & CO | SMA Solar Technology AG | disclosed | 5.93% | regulator → |
| 2026-07-14 1mo ago | 🇩🇪JPMORGAN CHASE & CO | SMA Solar Technology AG | disclosed | 6.23% | regulator → |
| 2026-07-10 1mo ago | 🇩🇪JPMORGAN CHASE & CO | SMA Solar Technology AG | disclosed | 7.20% | regulator → |
| 2026-07-09 1mo ago | 🇩🇪JPMORGAN CHASE & CO | SMA Solar Technology AG | disclosed | 6.88% | 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.