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Snapshot date: 2026-10-18 · Built: 2026-10-19T15:24:33+00:00 · Publication status: PASS

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COMPANY RESEARCH

Hansa Investment Company Limited

HAN.L · United Kingdom · Closed-End Funds · Asset Management

INSIDER SIGNAL

Insider activity score:51.0 / 100

1 insiders · 1 purchase events · €296k net purchases

Europe #605 · United Kingdom #155

WHY THIS SIGNAL?

Score anatomy

Each bar shows the contribution to the current score; the weights and formula stay unchanged.

Cluster+10.5 / 35

How many distinct insiders bought in the cluster

Purchase size+20.4 / 25

Purchase value relative to company size and liquidity

Role+13.0 / 20

The seniority and relevance of participating insiders

Recency+3.1 / 10

How recently the purchases occurred

Conviction+10.0 / 10

How clearly buying stands out from other activity

What is holding the score back?

  • ⚠ Buyer breadth is moderate · fewer than 4 distinct filers
  • ⚠ Insider role contributes less on the current role scale
  • ⚠ Purchase activity is becoming less recent

The role contribution uses the inverted role input of the current European model.

BUYING PROFILE

1 events · 1 insiders · 180d

Cluster 0%Repeat 0%Independent 100%Large 0%

Percentages are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%.

Buying concentration

100%

Largest buyer:Last Name(s): Legal person · 250k GBP
Gross qualified purchase transaction-line value:250k GBP

The headline € total is net buying for the screen; this module uses gross qualified purchase transaction-line values in the filing currency, so the amounts can differ. The current 15-day buyer-breadth input counts distinct buyers; value concentration is disclosed separately here.

This is a ranking under the current European screening rules—not a probability of gain, return forecast, or buy recommendation.

Key purchase quotes (filing currency)

FilerPrice per unitTrade date
Last Name(s): Legal person3.38 GBPSep 30, 2026
Model details

Cluster breakdown (does not change the score)

15-day buyer breadth (count)
1 distinct reported filers
Peak time window
2026-09-30 to 2026-09-30
Current breadth input
0.300 (capped at 4+ buyers)
Buyer independence
Not yet measured; related-party fields are not cross-market comparable

What the filings show

Insider vs stock price

1 purchase day(s), 1 purchase line(s) in the 180-day window.

Daily close (GBp)Day with an insider purchase
280300320340May 2026JunJulAugSepOct2026-09-30 · 1 purchase line(s) · 1 insider(s) · close since that day +0.6%334.00last close07 Oct

Markers sit on the closing price of the transaction day. They show when insiders traded, not the price they paid or received. "Since" compares that day's close with the last close shown; it is what happened at this company, not a forecast.

Insider timeline

One insider bought, once (30 Sep). The share closed at 332.00 that day and at 334.00 most recently (+0.6%).

Last Name(s): Legal personLast Name(s): Legal personRichard Lightowler is a Director of Hansa Investment Company LimitedBoard member2026-09-30 · Last Name(s): Legal person · purchase · 250,120 GBP2026-04-20 to 2026-04-26: 136 companies2026-04-27 to 2026-05-03: 203 companies2026-05-04 to 2026-05-10: 241 companies2026-05-11 to 2026-05-17: 211 companies2026-05-18 to 2026-05-24: 244 companies2026-05-25 to 2026-05-31: 237 companies2026-06-01 to 2026-06-07: 243 companies2026-06-08 to 2026-06-14: 237 companies2026-06-15 to 2026-06-21: 211 companies2026-06-22 to 2026-06-28: 185 companies2026-06-29 to 2026-07-05: 192 companies2026-07-06 to 2026-07-12: 160 companies2026-07-13 to 2026-07-19: 181 companies2026-07-20 to 2026-07-26: 167 companies2026-07-27 to 2026-08-02: 160 companies2026-08-03 to 2026-08-09: 152 companies2026-08-10 to 2026-08-16: 164 companies2026-08-17 to 2026-08-23: 194 companies2026-08-24 to 2026-08-30: 182 companies2026-08-31 to 2026-09-06: 188 companies2026-09-07 to 2026-09-13: 178 companies2026-09-14 to 2026-09-20: 173 companies2026-09-21 to 2026-09-27: 179 companies2026-09-28 to 2026-10-04: 183 companies2026-10-05 to 2026-10-11: 166 companies2026-10-12 to 2026-10-18: 138 companiesCompanies disclosing purchases, per weekMayJunJulAugSepOct

Tap an item for what it means.

●A purchase: the bigger the dot, the more was bought

Each dot is one insider's purchases on one day. The dot's area follows the amount: the largest purchase here gets the largest dot. Hold the pointer over a dot to see the date and the amount.

Blue line: this share's price, +21.9% over these six months

The closing price of each day, from 274.00 on 2026-04-21 to 334.00 on 2026-10-07. The line has no scale; read it for high and low: a dot on a low stretch was bought cheaply, a dot on a high stretch was not.

Dashed line: the typical stock on the same exchange, +2.3%

Taken from the 491 other stocks on the same exchange that this site holds prices for. Each is measured from the first day of the window, and every day the middle one is drawn. It starts where the blue line starts, so the gap between the two is the difference: this share +21.9%, the typical one +2.3%, 19.6 points ahead. It is not an index and not a comparison within one industry.

▂Grey bars: companies across Europe disclosing purchases each week

A taller bar is a week in which more companies disclosed insider purchases.

This company: insiders buying per month, last 12 months

Nov
Dec
1Jan
1Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
1Sep
Oct

Darker bars are inside the 180-day window above.

Who traded

InsiderRolePurchasesSalesBoughtFirst purchaseShare price sinceEarlier purchases
Last Name(s): Legal personBoard member1—250.1k GBP2026-09-30+0.6%fewer than 5 completed
Why this score? · Model details

Priority = 100 × Σ(fixed weight × 0–1 rule-based input)

FactorWeightThis company inputPoint contribution
15-day buyer breadth (count)35%0.30010.5
Qualified-buy size25%0.81720.4
Role informativeness (inverted)20%0.3507.0
Recency10%0.3083.1
Buy/sell conviction10%1.00010.0

This is a heuristic ordering under the current rules, not a calibrated return forecast. It explains why candidates rank differently; the public-filing evidence and data limits are shown below.

BULL VS BEAR

Two readings of this buying

The same filings, read two ways. Each line is a fact stored for this company with the number behind it, and appears only when that number crosses a fixed threshold. Neither side is a forecast and no winner is declared.

Since 2026-10-13: no longer on the bull side: bought in the last two weeks. All bull and bear lists, and what followed each line in the past →

Where the evidence comes from

  • The insider purchases themselvesBearone buyer only5 checked, under the threshold · 3 missing
  • Share price and trading2 checked, under the threshold
  • Short sellers1 checked, under the threshold
  • Company results1 checked, under the threshold · 1 missing
  • Company actions1 checked, under the threshold

Bull case · the buying is informative

Nothing held here goes beyond the fact that an insider bought.

Bear case · discount it

  • Only one insider bought. A single purchase can reflect that person's own finances rather than a view on the company.Record: after 4,732 earlier disclosures like this, the median 60-session excess return was −2.7%, within 1 percentage point of all comparable disclosures (−3.3%).

Evidence still missing

  • No buyer here has 5 or more completed earlier purchases on record, so there is no track record to weigh.
  • Only one reading of profitability is held (profit margin 93%). Whether earnings and cash flow are rising or falling needs the last two reports side by side.
  • European notifications have no field saying whether a purchase was pre-arranged; there is no counterpart to the US 10b5-1 box. The one purchase line does not mention a plan, but a bare “Richard Lightowler purchased 74,000 Ordinary shares” does not rule one out.
  • The filings give the size of each trade, not what the buyer already held. Whether a purchase added 1% to a personal stake or doubled it is not known.
Checked and under the threshold: 10, 1 close to it
  • EitherThe latest purchase is 17 days old. Bull up to 14 days, bear from 90. close to the threshold
  • Either1 insider bought in the last 180 days and 1 in the 180 days before. Bull when the number at least doubles and rises by two; bear when at least two bought before and no more buy now.
  • Bear0 of 1 buyer filed as a person closely associated with a manager. Counted for the bear side from half.
  • EitherNet purchases equal 0.04% of the company's market value. Bull from 0.10%, bear below 0.01%.
  • BearNo insider sale is recorded in the same 180 days.
  • BearThe share price changed +22% over six months (three months +2.5%, one month −1.8%) and stands 3.5% below its 52-week high. Counted for the bear side from a fall of 20%.
  • BearOver three months the share price changed +2.5% and the median of 159 Closed-End Funds companies changed +1.0%: ahead by 1 points. Counted for the bear side from 20 points behind.
  • BearThe register of FCA shows no published net short position in this company.
  • BullThe company announced 14 transactions in its own shares in the last 30 days (latest 2026-10-16); the 7 read are all purchases. For a closed-end fund a buyback is routine: it is how the board narrows the discount to net asset value. Not counted for the bull side.
  • BearProfit margin on the latest captured figures is 93%. Counted for the bear side when negative.

Both columns arrange stored facts only. They do not change the insider score or the ranking and are not investment advice.

Signal history

51.0 / 100

Latest recorded score

↑ +6.4 ptsversus the comparable snapshot on 2026-08-27 (52 calendar days apart)
Recorded snapshots
17
First snapshot
2026-08-26

Only scores captured when the scoring run completed are compared. These are raw signal scores saved when each full scoring run completed. They describe changes in research ranking, not price performance or returns.

Why did it change?

Decomposition across the five score factors between comparable snapshots; historical scores are not recalculated.

  • Purchase size+3.3 pts
  • Recency+3.1 pts

Signal score history

Fixed 0–100 scale; dates are spaced by calendar time.

02550751002026-08-26 · 44.62026-08-27 · 44.62026-10-01 · 57.22026-10-02 · 56.62026-10-03 · 56.62026-10-04 · 56.62026-10-05 · 55.02026-10-06 · 54.52026-10-07 · 54.12026-10-08 · 53.72026-10-09 · 53.32026-10-12 · 52.32026-10-13 · 52.02026-10-14 · 51.72026-10-15 · 51.52026-10-16 · 51.22026-10-18 · 51.0Aug 26Oct 03Oct 07Oct 13Oct 18

Recent recorded points

  1. 44.6
  2. 56.6
  3. 54.1
  4. 52.0
  5. 51.0
View all recorded scores
Snapshot dateSignal score
2026-08-2644.6
2026-08-2744.6
2026-10-0157.2
2026-10-0256.6
2026-10-0356.6
2026-10-0456.6
2026-10-0555.0
2026-10-0654.5
2026-10-0754.1
2026-10-0853.7
2026-10-0953.3
2026-10-1252.3
2026-10-1352.0
2026-10-1451.7
2026-10-1551.5
2026-10-1651.2
2026-10-1851.0

Sector context

Closed-End Funds

Buying breadth
9.7% (21 / 216 issuers)
Sector rank
#4 / 12
7D breadth change
+0.0 pp · vs 2026-10-12 (6d)
30D breadth change
History building

This is sector-level research context. It does not affect the Insider Signal or ranking.

View Europe sector research →

Insider profile outcomes

Historical performance following insider filings. The company role is translated below each name while preserving the original title.

Events are disclosure-level observations; related disclosures published on the same date may share a return path and may not be statistically independent. This research enrichment does not affect the insider score or ranking.

Last Name(s): Legal personPedro Gonçalves is a Director of Hansa Investment Company Limited | Richard Lightowler is a Director of Hansa Investment Company Limited | Simona Heidempergher is a Director of Hansa Investment Company Limited2 completed 20D event(s)
PeriodCompleted eventsPrice coverageHit rateMedian excess returnAverage excess returnWorst excess return
5D3Small sample100.0% (3/3)33.3% (1/3)-1.3%-0.6%-1.7%
20D2Small sample100.0% (2/2)50.0% (1/2)-0.6%-0.6%-4.1%
60D2Small sample100.0% (2/2)50.0% (1/2)+2.6%+2.6%-0.4%
120D2Small sample100.0% (2/2)100.0% (2/2)+10.1%+10.1%+7.0%
First purchase in 12M
2/3
Large purchase ≥ €100k
1/3
Cluster buying · 15D
0/3
Buying the dip · ≥20% below prior 52W high
0/3
Routine / opportunistic
Not classifiable

Market context

PRICE PERFORMANCE

1M
-1.8%
3M
+2.5%
6M
+22.3%
12M
+29.5%

VOLATILITY & LIQUIDITY

Volatility
19.6%
Beta
0.21
Avg daily volume
£173,589.8

VALUATION

Market cap
£651.6M
P/E
3.7×

FUNDAMENTALS

Profit margin
93.2%
ROE
18.1%
Industry
Asset Management

Prices to 01 Oct 2026: OpenBB/yfinance. From OpenBB/yfinance, captured 01 Oct 2026: Market cap, P/E, Profit margin, ROE, Beta, Industry. It does not affect the insider score or rank.

Disclosed net short positions

The FCA register, read 18 Oct 2026, publishes no aggregate net short position for this issuer.

Short-position disclosures are external context; they do not affect the insider score, ranking, or filing eligibility.

Insiders' buying price vs the latest close

The latest close in the price history is more than a week old.

Buying size vs market trading

Market history is too old for this snapshot; ratios are withheld.

Market-data coverage: 251 verified sessions · Latest session: 2026-10-07 · Ratio status: Unavailable

Traded value is estimated as close × shares traded, in major currency units. Includes disclosed qualifying purchases; disclosures may lag. Contractual or planned acquisitions are not necessarily discretionary. Ratios describe relative trading size, not market participation or score contributions.

Latest news

No news has been captured for this company.

Regulatory filings

Unfold all 7 filings

Filing evidence

These are underlying national-feed records from the 365-day window ending on the saved ranking snapshot. The score uses only the latest 180 days; older qualifying equity purchases remain visible for audit but do not enter the current score. The original filer, role, transaction classification, instrument, price, volume, value and source fields are retained. The first three rows are shown; remaining records can be unfolded for audit. Other transaction types are retained but excluded from the score.

Excluded transactions & classification

3 qualifying purchase disclosure(s) · 3 transaction line(s)

Sep 30, 2026Richard Lightowler purchased 74,000 Ordinary shares
Last Name(s): Legal person · Richard Lightowler is a Director of Hansa Investment Company Limited
Ordinary shares of 1 pence each · 74000 shares × 3.38 GBP · —
Open filing
Feb 12, 2026Simona Heidempergher purchased 12,000 'A' non-voting ordinary shares
Last Name(s): Legal person · Simona Heidempergher is a Director of Hansa Investment Company Limited
'A' non-voting ordinary shares of 1 pence each · 12000 shares × 2.74 GBP · —
Open filing
Jan 28, 2026Pedro Gonçalves purchased 17,800 'A' non-voting ordinary shares
Last Name(s): Legal person · Pedro Gonçalves is a Director of Hansa Investment Company Limited
'A' non-voting ordinary shares of 1 pence each · 17800 shares × 2.7572 GBP · —
Open filing

Showing 3 of 3 matching raw-feed row(s) from the current 365-day research window. Prices and reported values remain in the filing currency and its major unit (for example, UK pence are parsed as GBP). The screen-level € aggregate is separately FX-normalised for research ranking, not a trade-date conversion.

Other disclosed transactions · excluded from score

View 4 other transaction(s)

Dec 12, 2025Victualia Limited Partnership exchanged its shares in Ocean Wilsons Holding Limited for 6,619,333 ordinary shares and 13,238,666 A ordinary shares, pursuant to the Scheme. 9. Currency N/A 10. Price(s) and Volumes(s) Price: £Nil Volume: 6,619,333 ordinary shares, 13,238,666 A ordinary shares 11. Date of transaction 10 December 2025 12. Place of transaction Outside a trading venue
First Name(s): Last Name(s): Legal person N/A N/A Victualia Limited Partnership · Victualia Limited Partnership is a person closely associated with William Salomon, Director of Hansa Investment Company Limited
* Ordinary shares of 1 pence each and A Ordinary shares of 1 pence each · — shares × — · —
Open filing
Dec 10, 2025Christopher Townsend exchanged his shares in Ocean Wilsons Holding Limited for 6,029,700 ordinary shares and 12,059,400 A ordinary shares, pursuant to the Scheme.
Last Name(s): Legal person · Christopher Townsend is a Director of Hansa Investment Company Limited
Ordinary shares of 1 pence each and A Ordinary shares of 1 pence each · 6029700 shares × — · —
Open filing
Dec 10, 2025Jonathan Davie has exchanged his shares in Ocean Wilsons Holding Limited for 26,118 ordinary shares and 52,236 A ordinary shares, pursuant to the Scheme.
Last Name(s): Legal person · Jonathan Davie is the Chairman of Hansa Investment Company Limited
Ordinary shares of 1 pence each and A Ordinary shares of 1 pence each · 26118 shares × — · —
Open filing
Unfold all 1 remaining filing row(s)
Transaction datePublishedFilerRoleTransactionInstrumentPrice (local currency)Quote currencyVolumeSource
2025-12-102025-12-12Last Name(s): Legal personAndrey Berzins is a Director of Hansa Investment Company LimitedAndrey Berzins exchanged his shares in Ocean Wilsons Holding Limited for 29,850 ordinary shares and 59,700 A ordinary shares, pursuant to the Scheme.Ordinary shares of 1 pence each and A Ordinary shares of 1 pence each—GBP29850Open filing

Showing 4 of 4 matching raw-feed row(s) from the current 365-day research window. Prices and reported values remain in the filing currency and its major unit (for example, UK pence are parsed as GBP). The screen-level € aggregate is separately FX-normalised for research ranking, not a trade-date conversion.

Snapshot & identity

Snapshot date
2026-10-18
Ticker
HAN.L
ISIN
BMG428941162
Sector
Closed-End Funds
Industry
Asset Management

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