Multiple Firms Publish Share Capital, Voting Rights

Multiple listed companies and investment trusts published their issued share capital and total voting-rights figures on 31 October/3 November 2025, providing the denominators shareholders must use to assess notification thresholds under the FCA, the EU Transparency Directive, AMF and Belgian law. Key disclosures include KBC Ancora — total capital EUR 3,158,128,455.28 with 77,011,844 voting shares and 116,719,208 total voting rights; Rio Tinto plc — 1,256,010,170 issued ordinary shares and 1,254,282,268 voting rights; and South32 — 4,494,373,973 ordinary shares (no treasury stock). Several UK-listed investment trusts reported voting-rights figures adjusted for treasury stock, including Baillie Gifford China Growth Trust (57,766,608), Pacific Horizon (83,699,869), CQS Natural Resources Growth & Income (35,078,779), JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income (67,610,107) and one issuer with 265,305,738 voting rights after treasury holdings. Great Western Mining disclosed 179,689,274 ordinary shares in issue following a share-capital reorganisation, and Nexans reiterated that its articles require shareholder notifications at 2% thresholds (and multiples) in addition to statutory thresholds. Each company emphasised that these figures should be used by shareholders and others with notification obligations and provided contact details, calendar dates or website links for further information.