1 insider bought €22k of shares over the last 90 days, the latest filed 10 Oct 2026.
Brenntag SE, founded in 1874, is a Chemicals & Materials company based in Essen, Germany. Its directors and officers file their transactions with BaFin. From 18 October 2025 to 18 October 2026, the disclosure feed for Brenntag SE logged 4 filings by 4 insiders.
The flow runs one way only: 4 insiders bought (4 purchases totalling €567k) and nobody sold on the market. Open-market purchases are the filings investors watch most closely, because the insider pays for the shares out of pocket. The largest single trade was a purchase of €499k by Birgersson, Jens, published on 21 October 2025. The buyers include 3 board members and 1 senior executive.
The data flag 1 purchase as part of a group of insiders buying within 30 days of each other. A cluster is several different insiders buying the same stock within a short window, a pattern studied more closely than a single purchase. The clock since the last published purchase (10 October 2026) now reads 7 days. The median gap between a trade and its publication by BaFin is 5 days. For comparison, MAR article 19 gives managers three business days to notify a trade.
Across the 287 companies tracked on its exchange, the median is 5 filings; at 4 filings, this issuer sits below that mark. Over the whole record (from 2025), the tally stands at 14 purchases and 1 sale.
In the same sector, recent insider purchases at Culp Inc also feature in our signals. Every figure here comes from the filings published by BaFin and describes the past, not future prices; it is not investment advice.
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Analysts rate Brenntag SE Hold (neutral), based on 15 analysts. Average price target: €57.73.
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Brenntag SE is a leading global chemicals and ingredients distributor listed on Xetra/Frankfurt (DAX/MDAX/SDAX) in Germany. Headquartered in Essen, Germany, the company traces its origins back to 1874, when it was founded in Berlin as an egg wholesaler. Over time, Brenntag transformed into a global distribution platform for chemical raw materials and specialty ingredients, and today it positions itself as the world market leader in chemicals and ingredients distribution. Its core value proposition is to connect chemical producers with industrial customers through scale, local market access, regulatory expertise, and a service-heavy supply chain model.
Brenntag operates through two global divisions: Brenntag Essentials and Brenntag Specialties. Essentials focuses on industrial chemicals and high-volume distribution, emphasizing local proximity, efficient logistics, and reliable supply. Specialties targets more application-driven and higher value-added ingredients used in end markets such as nutrition, pharmaceuticals, personal care, coatings, polymers, rubber, water treatment, and lubricants. Across both divisions, Brenntag offers a broad portfolio, technical support, formulation services, blending, repackaging, inventory management, just-in-time delivery, and extensive regulatory know-how. This makes the company more than a pure trader; it is a service-intensive channel partner embedded in customers’ operations.
From a competitive standpoint, Brenntag benefits from scale, breadth, and a dense international footprint. The group reports a network of more than 600 sites in over 70 countries, a portfolio of more than 10,000 products, and a customer base of around 160,000 clients across a wide range of industries. Its local execution capabilities and safety standards are key differentiators in an industry where reliability, compliance, and supply continuity matter greatly. Brenntag says it holds leading market positions in Europe, North America, and Latin America while continuing to expand in Asia Pacific.
Recent developments underline both the resilience and the cyclical pressure in the business. In March 2026, Brenntag released preliminary 2025 figures showing revenue of EUR 15.2 billion, resilient free cash flow generation, and an accelerated cost-out program. The company proposed a dividend of EUR 1.90 per share and guided for 2026 operating EBITDA of EUR 1.15 billion to EUR 1.35 billion. Brenntag also completed targeted acquisitions in 2025, including an add-on in Germany to strengthen mixing and blending capabilities. For investors, Brenntag remains a high-quality industrial distribution business with defensive characteristics, broad diversification, and meaningful exposure to global chemical demand cycles.
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Over the last 90 days, 1 filing published on 10 October 2026: 1 open-market purchase by insiders for €22k. Largest amounts: Mollenkopf, Dr. Claudine (Supervisory board), purchases of €22k.
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Headquarters: Essen, Germany · Founded: 1874 · 17,500 employees (2022) · Wikipedia article
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