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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-29 2w ago | 🇩🇪BlackRock, Inc. | Symrise AG | disclosed | 8.54% | regulator → |
| 2026-06-08 1mo ago | 🇩🇪The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | Symrise AG | disclosed | 5.01% | regulator → |
| 2026-06-05 1mo ago | 🇩🇪BlackRock, Inc. | Symrise AG | disclosed | 7.82% | regulator → |
| 2026-06-03 1mo ago | 🇩🇪The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | Symrise AG | disclosed | 5.06% | regulator → |
| 2026-06-02 1mo ago | 🇩🇪BlackRock, Inc. | Symrise AG | disclosed | 6.84% | regulator → |
| 2026-05-18 1mo ago | 🇩🇪The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | Symrise AG | disclosed | 5.46% | regulator → |
| 2026-05-12 2mo ago | 🇩🇪The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | Symrise AG | disclosed | 5.17% | regulator → |
| 2026-02-04 5mo ago | 🇩🇪Harris Associates L.P. | Symrise AG | disclosed | 3.03% | regulator → |
| 2026-01-15 6mo ago | 🇩🇪MFS SERIES TRUST X | Symrise AG | disclosed | 5.17% | regulator → |
| 2025-11-11 8mo ago | 🇩🇪Massachusetts Financial Services Company (MFS) | Symrise AG | disclosed | 10.33% | regulator → |
| 2025-09-09 10mo ago | 🇩🇪Flossbach von Storch SE | Symrise AG | disclosed | 3.01% | 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.