Oct 21, 2026Purchase of Ordinary Shares
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Ordinary shares of 5p each in the capital of Games Workshop Group PLC ISIN GB0003718474 · 120 shares × 168.91 GBP · —
Open filingCOMPANY RESEARCH
Games Workshop Group PLC
GAW.L · United Kingdom · Consumer Cyclical · Leisure
INSIDER SIGNAL
Insider activity score：60.7 / 100
Buyers not named in the filings · 6 purchase line(s) · €771k net purchases
Europe #264 · United Kingdom #72
WHY THIS SIGNAL?
Score anatomy
Each bar shows the contribution to the current score; the weights and formula stay unchanged.
Cluster+17.1 / 35
How many distinct insiders bought in the cluster
Purchase size+22.0 / 25
Purchase value relative to company size and liquidity
Role+17.1 / 20
The seniority and relevance of participating insiders
Recency+8.7 / 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
- ✓ Strong insider role · ? involved
- ✓ Recent activity · latest purchase 2026-10-21
The role contribution uses the inverted role input of the current European model.
Buying concentration
The filings do not name the buyer, so who bought how much cannot be worked out.
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)
| Filer | Price per unit | Trade date |
|---|---|---|
| — | 168.91 GBP | Oct 21, 2026 |
| — | 171.1 GBP | Oct 15, 2026 |
| — | 191.74–193.88 GBP | Aug 3, 2026 |
Model details
Cluster breakdown (does not change the score)
Not measured: the scoring window holds no purchase filing with both a buyer name and a trade date.
What the filings show
- 🟢 Recent eligible purchase
— · 20k GBP · Price 168.91 GBP · Oct 21, 2026 - 🟢 Eligible purchase
— · 24k GBP · Price 171.1 GBP · Oct 15, 2026 - 🟢 Large eligible purchase
— · 601k GBP · Price 191.74–193.88 GBP · Aug 3, 2026 - 🔴 1 other transaction line(s) are not counted as discretionary-buying evidence; 0 have zero price
Insider vs stock price
3 purchase day(s), 6 purchase line(s) in the 180-day window.
Daily close (GBp)Day with an insider purchase
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.
If you had followed the purchase
Each row starts on the first close on or after the day a purchase was made public, the earliest a reader could have acted, and ends on the last close shown above.
| Made public | Insiders | In this stock, now | In the median peer stock, now | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 1 | 880 −12.0% | 989 −1.1% | −109 −10.9 pts |
| 2026-10-16 | 1 | 986 −1.4% | 993 −0.7% | −7 −0.7 pts |
| 2026-10-21 | 1 | 988 −1.2% | 999 −0.1% | −11 −1.1 pts |
0 of 3 disclosure day(s) ended ahead of the median peer stock.
Close to close, before costs, taxes, dividends and currency moves. The peer is the median of the other stocks on the same exchange for which this site holds prices (81 here), not an index. This is what happened, not a forecast: across all purchases on this site the typical gap is close to zero.
Insider timeline
One insider bought, 3 times, the latest (21 Oct). The share closed at 16,950.00 that day and at 16,750.00 most recently (−1.2%).
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, −14.3% over these six months
The closing price of each day, from 19,555.00 on 2026-04-27 to 16,750.00 on 2026-10-22. 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, +4.3%
Taken from the 610 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 −14.3%, the typical one +4.3%, 18.6 points behind. 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.
Who traded
| Insider | Role | Purchases | Sales | Bought | First purchase | Share price since | Earlier purchases |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown insider | Role not classified | 3 | — | 645.4k GBP | 2026-08-03 | −12.9% | fewer than 5 completed |
Why this score? · Model details
Priority = 100 × Σ(fixed weight × 0–1 rule-based input)
| Factor | Weight | This company input | Point contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15-day buyer breadth (count) | 35% | 0.488; source unavailable, filled with a cohort-neutral value | 17.1 |
| Qualified-buy size | 25% | 0.879 | 22.0 |
| Role informativeness (inverted) | 20% | 0.147; source unavailable, filled with a cohort-neutral value | 2.9 |
| Recency | 10% | 0.871 | 8.7 |
| Buy/sell conviction | 10% | 1.000 | 10.0 |
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.
All bull and bear lists, and what followed each line in the past →
Where the evidence comes from
Independent evidence does not object: the purchases themselves carry bull lines (bought in the last two weeks); share price and trading, short sellers, company results, company actions were checked and none crosses a bear threshold.
- The insider purchases themselvesBullbought in the last two weeks Bearsmall purchases1 checked, under the threshold · 3 missing
- Share price and trading3 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
- The latest purchase is 2 days old (2026-10-21). The buying is current, not left over from an earlier quarter.
Bear case · discount it
- Insider purchases in the last 20 sessions equal 0.02% of the stock's traded value over those sessions: too small to register in the market.
Evidence still missing
- This register does not name the filer, so the 6 purchase lines may come from one person or from several. Breadth of buying cannot be judged.
- Only one reading of profitability is held (profit margin 31%). 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. None of the 6 purchase lines mentions a plan, but a bare “Purchase of 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: 7
- BearNo insider sale is recorded in the same 180 days.
- BearThe share price changed −14% over six months (three months −16%, one month −5.5%) and stands 29% below its 52-week high. Counted for the bear side from a fall of 20%.
- BearOver three months the share price changed −16% and the median of 295 Consumer Cyclical companies changed −3.5%: behind by 13 points. Counted for the bear side from 20 points behind.
- BearPublished net short positions add up to 0.99% of the share capital. Counted for the bear side from 2%. Unchanged since 2026-10-09.
- BullThe company announced no transaction in its own shares in the last 30 days.
- BearProfit margin on the latest captured figures is 31%. Counted for the bear side when negative.
- BearAbout €16.1M of the stock changes hands on an average day. Counted for the bear side below €500k.
Both columns arrange stored facts only. They do not change the insider score or the ranking and are not investment advice.
Signal history
60.7 / 100
Latest recorded score
↓ -1.4 ptssince the first recorded snapshot on 2026-10-21; 2 calendar days observed
- Recorded snapshots
- 3
- First snapshot
- 2026-10-21
There is not yet a 30-calendar-day comparison; earlier scores are not reconstructed. 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?
Less than 30 days of comparable history is available, so factor movement is not yet decomposed.
Signal score history
Fixed 0–100 scale; dates are spaced by calendar time.
Recent recorded points
- 62.1
- 61.3
- 60.7
View all recorded scores
| Snapshot date | Signal score |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | 62.1 |
| 2026-10-22 | 61.3 |
| 2026-10-23 | 60.7 |
Sector context
- Buying breadth
- 9.0% (45 / 502 issuers)
- Sector rank
- #7 / 12
- 7D breadth change
- +0.1 pp · vs 2026-10-16 (7d)
- 30D breadth change
- -2.7 pp · vs 2026-09-23 (30d)
This is sector-level research context. It does not affect the Insider Signal or ranking.
Insider profile outcomes
The filings for this company do not name the buyer, so past purchases cannot be followed person by person.
Market context
PRICE PERFORMANCE
VOLATILITY & LIQUIDITY
- Volatility
- 28.6%
- Beta
- 0.88
- Avg daily volume
- £16.6M
VALUATION
- Market cap
- £5.6B
- P/E
- 27.2×
FUNDAMENTALS
- Profit margin
- 31.2%
- ROE
- 66.9%
- Industry
- Leisure
Prices to 22 Oct 2026: OpenBB/yfinance; volume from price cache (yfinance). From OpenBB/yfinance, captured 21 Oct 2026: Market cap, P/E, Profit margin, ROE, Beta, Industry. It does not affect the insider score or rank.
Disclosed net short positions
- Aggregate net short
- 0.99%
- Latest position date
- 09 Oct 2026
The FCA publishes one aggregate figure per issuer, the sum of all positions notified to it, and does not name the holders. Source: FCA · read 23 Oct 2026
Short-position disclosures are external context; they do not affect the insider score, ranking, or filing eligibility.
Insiders and institutions
Insiders, ranking window: €770.8k net bought · buyers: -1 · last 2026-10-21
Short sellers
- Sum of published positions
- 0.99%register total
- Change, about 4 weeks
- −0.14 ppfrom 1.13% on 2026-10-02
- Change, about 12 weeks
- −0.01 ppfrom 1.00% on 2026-08-07
- Published short, 6 months
- line: insiders' last purchase
The published short positions changed little while insiders bought.
Source: FCA, read 2026-10-23. Where holders are named, only positions of 0.5% of issued capital or more are published, so these are lower bounds and a change is a change in what was published. Context only; not part of the score. All companies where insiders buy and short sellers hold positions →
Insiders' buying price vs the latest close
Insiders paid 190.19 GBP a share on average (10 purchase lines, 1 buyer, 2025-11-21 – 2026-10-21). The close on 2026-10-22 was 11.9% below that price.
The latest purchase (2026-10-21) was at 168.91 GBP; the close was 0.8% below that price.
Prices paid are weighted by shares and taken from the filings; dividends are not counted. Not scored.
Buying size vs market trading
0.02% · of estimated traded value in the same period
2026-09-25 – 2026-10-22 · 20 recorded trading sessions
- Disclosed qualifying purchases
- 44,736 GBP
- Estimated market traded value
- 269,384,777 GBP
Market-data coverage: 511 verified sessions · Latest session: 2026-10-22 · Ratio status: Available
Recent and largest purchase events / preceding 60-session ADTV
- Oct 21 · · 20,269 GBP · 0.11%17,869,294 GBP ADTV
- Oct 15 · · 24,467 GBP · 0.13%18,533,423 GBP ADTV
- Aug 03 · · 600,668 GBP · 3.50%17,165,774 GBP ADTV
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
- Insider filing announcement · published 2026-10-21 · trade date 2026-10-21
- Insider filing announcement · published 2026-10-16 · trade date 2026-10-16
- Insider filing announcement · published 2026-10-16 · trade date 2026-10-15
Unfold all 10 filings
- Insider filing announcement · published 2026-10-21 · trade date 2026-10-21
- Insider filing announcement · published 2026-10-16 · trade date 2026-10-16
- Insider filing announcement · published 2026-10-16 · trade date 2026-10-15
- Insider filing announcement · published 2026-08-04 · trade date 2026-08-03
- Insider filing announcement · published 2026-04-13 · trade date 2026-04-10
- Insider filing announcement · published 2026-04-02 · trade date 2026-03-27
- Insider filing announcement · published 2026-03-19 · trade date 2026-03-18
- Insider filing announcement · published 2026-03-11 · trade date 2026-03-11
- Insider filing announcement · published 2026-02-02 · trade date 2026-01-28
- Insider filing announcement · published 2025-11-25 · trade date 2025-11-21
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
10 qualifying purchase disclosure(s) · 10 transaction line(s)
Oct 15, 2026Purchase of Ordinary Shares
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Ordinary shares of 5p each in the capital of Games Workshop Group PLC ISIN GB0003718474 · 143 shares × 171.10 GBP · —
Open filingAug 3, 2026Purchase of Ordinary Shares
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Ordinary shares of 5p each in the capital of Games Workshop Group PLC ISIN GB0003718474 · 2034 shares × 193.88 GBP · —
Open filingUnfold all 7 remaining filing row(s)
| Transaction date | Published | Filer | Role | Transaction | Instrument | Price (local currency) | Quote currency | Volume | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-03 | 2026-08-04 | — | — | Purchase of Ordinary Shares | Ordinary shares of 5p each in the capital of Games Workshop Group PLC ISIN GB0003718474 | 191.83 GBP | GBP | 275 | Open filing |
| 2026-08-03 | 2026-08-04 | — | — | Purchase of Ordinary Shares | Ordinary shares of 5p each in the capital of Games Workshop Group PLC ISIN GB0003718474 | 191.74 GBP | GBP | 267 | Open filing |
| 2026-08-03 | 2026-08-04 | — | — | Purchase of Ordinary Shares | Ordinary shares of 5p each in the capital of Games Workshop Group PLC ISIN GB0003718474 | 193.88 GBP | GBP | 528 | Open filing |
| 2026-03-27 | 2026-04-02 | — | — | Purchase of Ordinary Shares | Ordinary shares of 5p each in the capital of Games Workshop Group PLC ISIN GB0003718474 | 179.35 GBP | GBP | 61 | Open filing |
| 2026-03-11 | 2026-03-11 | — | — | Purchase of Ordinary Shares | Ordinary Shares of 5p each in the capital of Games Workshop Group PLC ISIN GB0003718474 | 171.385101 GBP | GBP | 110 | Open filing |
| 2026-01-28 | 2026-02-02 | — | — | Purchase of Ordinary Shares | Ordinary shares of 5p each in the capital of Games Workshop Group PLC ISIN GB0003718474 | 176.50583 GBP | GBP | 124 | Open filing |
| 2025-11-21 | 2025-11-25 | — | — | Purchase of Ordinary Shares | Ordinary Shares of 5p Each in the Capital of Games Workshop Group PLC ISIN GB0003718474 | 184 GBP | GBP | 100 | Open filing |
Showing 10 of 10 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 3 other transaction(s)
Oct 16, 2026—
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— · — shares × — · —
Open filingApr 10, 2026Transfer of shares to a nominee account with no change in beneficial ownership.
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Ordinary Shares of 5p each in the capital of Games Workshop Group PLC ISIN GB0003718474 · 61 shares × — · —
Open filingMar 18, 2026Transfer of shares to a new nominee account with no change in beneficial ownership.
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Ordinary Shares of 5p each in the capital of Games Workshop Group PLC ISIN GB0003718474 · 22377 shares × — · —
Open filingShowing 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.
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Snapshot & identity
- Snapshot date
- 2026-10-23
- Ticker
- GAW.L
- ISIN
- GB0003718474
- Sector
- Consumer Cyclical
- Industry
- Leisure
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