Viking Global Investors LP
UK short positions the FCA published under this name: 7 companies and 89 disclosures between 8 Apr 2015 and 29 Nov 2023. Each figure is that position as a percentage of the company's issued share capital, not a money value, and percentages are not comparable or summable across companies.
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Positions open when the register closed
No position was still open in the register's final snapshot of 10 Jul 2026: every chain below had already fallen back below the 0.5% publication threshold.
Full disclosure history
Every disclosure the archive holds, grouped by company and ordered oldest first within each chain. A chain begins when the position first crossed 0.5% and ends either at the freeze or at the last disclosure before it fell back below the threshold.
LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC
closed 29 Nov 20234 disclosures · peak 0.61% · first 21 Aug 2023 · last 29 Nov 2023
21 Aug 2023 0.51% · 24 Aug 2023 0.61% · 20 Oct 2023 0.52% · 29 Nov 2023 0.49%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
HARGREAVES LANSDOWN PLC
closed 17 Feb 20213 disclosures · peak 0.60% · first 16 Dec 2020 · last 17 Feb 2021
16 Dec 2020 0.50% · 29 Dec 2020 0.60% · 17 Feb 2021 0.27%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
PEARSON PLC
closed 26 Sep 20193 disclosures · peak 0.64% · first 29 Aug 2019 · last 26 Sep 2019
29 Aug 2019 0.50% · 30 Aug 2019 0.64% · 26 Sep 2019 0.20%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
CINEWORLD GROUP PLC
closed 26 Feb 20195 disclosures · peak 0.78% · first 16 Aug 2018 · last 26 Feb 2019
16 Aug 2018 0.66% · 17 Aug 2018 0.78% · 20 Feb 2019 0.69% · 25 Feb 2019 0.52% · 26 Feb 2019 0.46%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
TechnipFMC PLC
closed 1 Nov 20174 disclosures · peak 0.60% · first 23 Oct 2017 · last 1 Nov 2017
23 Oct 2017 0.51% · 25 Oct 2017 0.60% · 30 Oct 2017 0.57% · 1 Nov 2017 0.48%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
Rio Tinto Plc
closed 8 Nov 201642 disclosures · peak 1.60% · first 8 Apr 2015 · last 8 Nov 2016
8 Apr 2015 0.51% · (18 further disclosures) · 24 Feb 2016 1.19% · 2 Mar 2016 1.07% · 4 Mar 2016 0.98% · 7 Mar 2016 0.83% · 8 Mar 2016 0.71% · 8 Apr 2016 0.80% · 13 Apr 2016 0.78% · 21 Apr 2016 0.69% · 25 Apr 2016 0.79% · 26 Apr 2016 0.89% · 4 May 2016 0.77% · 11 May 2016 0.80% · 27 May 2016 0.90% · 1 Aug 2016 0.86% · 11 Aug 2016 0.95% · 19 Aug 2016 1.00% · 6 Oct 2016 1.10% · 26 Oct 2016 1.02% · 27 Oct 2016 0.95% · 1 Nov 2016 0.83% · 2 Nov 2016 0.74% · 3 Nov 2016 0.59% · 8 Nov 2016 0.49%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
GLENCORE PLC
closed 24 Jun 201628 disclosures · peak 1.78% · first 17 Nov 2015 · last 24 Jun 2016
17 Nov 2015 0.52% · (4 further disclosures) · 30 Dec 2015 1.00% · 8 Jan 2016 1.21% · 12 Jan 2016 1.30% · 15 Jan 2016 1.42% · 21 Jan 2016 1.78% · 5 Feb 2016 1.62% · 9 Feb 2016 1.56% · 11 Feb 2016 1.47% · 22 Feb 2016 1.29% · 24 Feb 2016 1.16% · 4 Mar 2016 1.09% · 7 Mar 2016 0.92% · 17 Mar 2016 0.87% · 24 Mar 2016 0.78% · 30 Mar 2016 0.80% · 14 Apr 2016 0.77% · 4 May 2016 0.68% · 9 May 2016 0.57% · 24 May 2016 0.63% · 27 May 2016 0.59% · 7 Jun 2016 0.61% · 16 Jun 2016 0.59% · 24 Jun 2016 0.49%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
Frequently asked questions
- Which UK companies did Viking Global Investors LP short?
- The FCA's named register recorded Viking Global Investors LP against 7 UK companies between 2015 and 2026, across 89 disclosures. No position was still open when the register closed on 10 Jul 2026.
- Is this list current?
- No. It is a frozen archive. The FCA stopped publishing position-holder names on 13 July 2026 and now publishes one anonymous aggregate per company per day, so no new named UK disclosure exists after 10 Jul 2026. Today's UK figures are on each company's own page.
- Was this the whole of Viking Global Investors LP's UK short book?
- No. Only net short positions of 0.5% or more of a company's issued share capital were published with the holder's name. Smaller positions were reported to the FCA privately and never appeared in the register, so the archive is a floor, not a full book.
Source: the Financial Conduct Authority's daily short positions file, captured on 10 Jul 2026 from fca.org.uk and archived unchanged. Figures are as the FCA published them; this site is not affiliated with the FCA. Nothing here is investment advice.