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Shareholders
Ownership structure
March 31, 2012, Atlas Copco had 69 485 shareholders (71 379 in December 2011). The 10 largest shareholders registered directly or as a group with Euroclear Sweden, the Swedish Central Securities Depository, by voting rights, accounted for 33.3% (33.5) of the voting rights and 32.6% (33)of the number of shares. Non-Swedish investors held 48.3% (48) of the shares and represented 51.2% (51) of the voting rights.
10 largest shareholders
The table below shows the largest shareholders, by voting rights, registered directly or as a group with Euroclear Sweden, the Swedish Central Securities Depository.
| Number of
shares | A-shares
| B-shares
| % of
votes | % of
capital | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Investor | 206 895 611 | 194 803 726 | 12 091 885 | 22.3 | 16.8 |
| Swedbank Robur | 44 109 477 | 20 632 873 | 23 476 604 | 2.6 | 3.6 |
| Handelsbanken | 21 711 050 | 13 296 081 | 8 414 969 | 1.6 | 1.8 |
| Alecta | 30 523 000 | 10 435 000 | 20 088 000 | 1.4 | 2.5 |
| AP 4 | 14 572 720 | 9 768 640 | 4 804 080 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Folksam | 19 507 898 | 8 345 387 | 11 162 511 | 1.1 | 1.6 |
| SEB Invest | 16 183 454 | 8 504 582 | 7 678 872 | 1.1 | 1.3 |
| AP 1 | 13 013 330 | 6 225 392 | 6 787 938 | 0.8 | 1.1 |
| AP 2 | 9 369 674 | 5 813 371 | 3 556 303 | 0.7 | 0.8 |
| AMF | 25 556 870 | 2 765 850 | 22 791 020 | 0.6 | 2.1 |
| Others | 828 170 020 | 558 803 194 | 269 366 826 | 66.7 | 67.4 |
| Total | 1 229 613 104 | 839 394 096 | 390 219 008 | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| - whereof shares held by Atlas Copco* | 15 848 690 | 14 709 811 | 1 138 879 | 1.7 | 1.3 |
| Total, net of shares held by
Atlas Copco | 1 213 764 414 | 824 684 285 | 389 080 129 |
*For daily updates on shares held by Atlas Copco, see Share repurchases .
Ownership by Country
| % of votes | % of capital | |
|---|---|---|
| Sweden | 48.9 | 51.7 |
| The United States | 22.0 | 20.0 |
| Great Britain | 18.3 | 18.4 |
| Others | 10.9 | 9.9 |
| Total | 100.0 | 100.0 |
Ownership structure
| Number of shares | % of shareholders | % of capital |
|---|---|---|
| 1-500 | 58.0 | 0.6 |
| 501-2,000 | 27.1 | 1.7 |
| 2,001-10,000 | 11.5 | 2.8 |
| 10,001-50,000 | 2.2 | 2.6 |
| 50,001-100,000 | 0.3 | 1.3 |
| >100,000 | 0.8 | 91.1 |
| Total | 100.0 | 100.0 |
