04 Listing and shareholders

Comet Holding AG (the “Company”) is the Group’s only company listed on a stock exchange. The Company’s registered office is in Flamatt, Switzerland. The registered shares of Comet Holding AG have been listed in the main market segment of the SIX Swiss Exchange in Zurich since December 17, 2002.

Assorted financial metrics on the stock of Comet Holding AG are provided in section “information for investors” of the annual report.

Listed and non-listed Group companies

Comet Holding AG has no publicly traded subsidiaries. The companies consolidated in the Group are presented in note 2, “Investments in subsidiaries”.

Registered shareholders

At December 31, 2021, Comet Holding AG had 6,206 voting shareholders of record (i.e., voting shareholders registered in the share register; prior year: 3,853). Of the total issued registered stock, 100% (prior year: 100%) represented free float. Comet Holding AG held no treasury stock at December 31, 2021 (prior year: nil). The structure of share ownership size classes among the shareholders of record at December 31, 2021 was as follows:

This analysis includes only the stock of shareholders who were registered in the share register. At December 31, 2021 the shares of unregistered owners amounted to 46% of the total (prior year: 36%).

Significant shareholders

Ownership interests in companies domiciled in Switzerland whose shares are listed at least partly in Switzerland must be notified both to the issuer company and to the SIX Swiss Exchange when the holder’s voting rights reach, increase above or fall below certain thresholds. These notification thresholds are 3%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 33 ⅓%, 50% and 66 ⅔% of voting rights. The relevant details are set out in the Financial Market Infrastructure Act (FinMIA) and in the Ordinance of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority on Stock Exchanges and Securities Trading (the FINMA Stock Exchange Ordinance).

At December 31, 2021 the Company, according to disclosure notifications, had the following significant shareholders (defined for this purpose as shareholders with voting rights of 3% or more of the Comet capital stock recorded in the Swiss commercial register of companies):

The Company has not been notified of nor is aware of any other shareholders that held 3% or more of its shares. To the best of the Company’s knowledge, there were no voting pool agreements.

Reportable changes during fiscal year 2021

In the fiscal year, 24 reportable announcements were published. For a complete list of all announcements under section 125 FinMIA, refer to the publication platform of the disclosure section of the SIX Swiss Exchange: www.six-exchange-regulation.com/en/home/publications/significant-shareholders.html

Cross-shareholdings

There were no cross-shareholdings with other publicly traded companies.