Most of the shares owned by foreign investors are registered through foreign banks or trustees, which are not registered in the share register kept by VPC. This means that the actual owners are not displayed in the share register kept by VPC.
| Major shareholders as of September 30, 2008 | |||||
| Number of A-shares | Number of B-shares | Total number of shares | Share capital, % | Voting rights, % | |
| Investor | 8 270 771 | 30 894 300 | 39 165 071 | 12.7 | 28.8 |
| Alecta Pension Insurance | 500 000 | 23 815 000 | 24 315 000 | 7.9 | 7.3 |
| Capital Group Funds | 16 976 000 | 16 976 000 | 5.5 | 4.3 | |
| Swedbank Robur Funds | 10 668 040 | 10 668 040 | 3.5 | 2.7 | |
| SEB Funds | 8 756 315 | 8 756 315 | 2.8 | 2.2 | |
| Second Swedish National Pension Fund | 7 716 929 | 7 716 929 | 2.5 | 2.0 | |
| Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund | 5 973 606 | 5 973 606 | 1.9 | 1.5 | |
| Didner & Gerge Mutual Fund | 5 145 000 | 5 145 000 | 1.7 | 1.3 | |
| SHB/SPP Funds | 4 643 064 | 4 643 064 | 1.5 | 1.2 | |
| Öresund | 3 800 000 | 3 800 000 | 1.2 | 1.0 | |
| Other shareholders | 731 504 | 155 690 975 | 156 422 479 | 50.6 | 47.7 |
| 9 502 275 | 274 079 229 | 283 581 504 | 91.8 | 100.0 | |
| AB Electrolux | 25 338 804 | 25 338 804 | 8.2 | 0.0 | |
| Total | 9 502 275 | 299 418 033 | 308 920 308 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| As of September 30, 2008, approx. 33.7% of the total share capital was owned by foreign investors, approx. 57.4% by Swedish institutions and mutual funds, and approx. 8.9% by private Swedish investors. | |||||
| Source: SIS Ägarservice | |||||
| Share distribution | ||
| Shareholding | No. of shareholders | As % of shareholders |
| 1-1,000 | 46 673 | 88.3% |
| 1,001-10,000 | 5 439 | 10.3% |
| 10,001-20,000 | 254 | 0.5% |
| 20,001- | 513 | 0.9% |
| Total | 52 879 | 100% |
| Source: SIS Ägarservice as of September 30, 2008. | ||
