29th Jan 2026 12:26
(Alliance News) - The total value of shares held in quoted UK-domiciled companies listed on the London Stock Exchange was GBP2.54 trillion at the end of 2024, rising 5.0% from GBP2.42 trillion in 2022, a report on Thursday showed.
According to the Office for National Statistics overseas investors continued to increase their holdings, with the proportion of UK shares owned by the rest of the world reaching a record high of 58.8% in 2024, up from 57.7% in 2022.
UK-resident individuals held 11.6% of quoted shares, an increase of 0.8 percentage points from 2022, and taking holdings to GBP295.0 billion – a record-high.
The biennial bulletin provides estimates of holdings of ordinary shares in UK domiciled quoted companies by sector of beneficial ownership. Analysis only includes companies listed on the London Stock Exchange whose country of incorporation is listed as UK according to the LSE.
Banks expanded their holdings to a record 3.6%, up 0.2 percentage points compared with 2022, and ahead of the previous record of 3.5% in 2008, after which the level fell before starting to increase again from 2016 onwards.
US investors held GBP693.9 billion of UK quoted shares in 2024, around 27.2% of the total, the largest proportion of UK quoted shares of any country outside the UK. The total rose from GBP626.1 billion in 2022, which was 25.9% of the total.
By Jeremy Cutler, Alliance News reporter
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