Employee trusts buy Old Mutual stock

Published on 10/20/2026 at 13:09 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

Trusts bought Old Mutual shares on October 16, 2026. Old Mutual stock costs EUR 0.74 on October 20, 2026, versus GBp 62.04 on LSE.

Trust purchases and interim results

Employee trusts bought 2,595,194 Old Mutual shares on October 13, 2026.
First-half 2026 revenue fell 6.4 percent to ZAR 51.9 billion.
Old Mutual stock traded at EUR 0.74 at 1:04 p.m. CEST at Lang & Schwarz on October 20, 2026.

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Old Mutual (ISIN ZAE000255360) disclosed employee-trust purchases involving 2,595,194 shares on October 13, 2026. Sharenet reported the transactions on October 16, 2026, adding a concrete ownership signal to the latest stock discussion.

Trust purchases add a fresh signal

The Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Employee Trust bought 2,595,194 shares on October 13 at a volume-weighted average price of ZAR 13.3880. The same release also listed purchases on October 14, including 1,998,938 shares at a volume-weighted average price of ZAR 13.4166, under hedging arrangements for employee ownership and incentive plans.

The filing identifies Old Mutual's JSE share code as OMU and its LSE share code as OMU. It also confirms that the purchases represented indirect beneficial interests rather than an ordinary open-market investment by the group itself.

What do the interim numbers show?

Simply Wall St reported that first-half 2026 revenue fell 6.4 percent year over year to ZAR 51.9 billion, while net income declined 5.2 percent to ZAR 3.89 billion. Earnings per share stood at ZAR 0.96, unchanged from the first half of 2025, and profit margin increased to 7.5 percent from 7.4 percent.

The comparison matters because the revenue decline was paired with a slightly higher margin. The same source listed results from operations guidance of ZAR 5,039 million to ZAR 5,533 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026, equivalent to growth of 2 percent to 12 percent.

Dates for the next update

Old Mutual's investor-relations page schedules a Q3 voluntary update call for December 3, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. SAST, while its 2026 interim results were announced on September 8, 2026. The company also lists its 2026 interim results as the latest published reporting package.

Simply Wall St lists November 6, 2026 as the payment date for the interim dividend of ZAR 0.40 per share. That date gives income-focused investors a second timetable alongside the December operating update.

Stock price and investor readout

Old Mutual's London quote was last at GBp 62.04 on October 20, 2026 at 11:20 a.m. BST, while the JSE remains the company's home-market reference in South Africa. The combination of employee-trust buying, lower first-half revenue and a 7.5 percent margin leaves operating resilience and capital returns as the key points for the next update.

Old Mutual stock was trading at EUR 0.74 at Lang & Schwarz on October 20, 2026 at 1:04 p.m. CEST.

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