NatWest Group PLC - Edinburgh, Scotland-based bank - The UK government reduces its stake in NatWest to 4.82% on Wednesday from 5.93%, NatWest says in a stock exchange filing on Thursday. This reduced stake follows the UK’s Treasury’s sale of 88.9 million NatWest shares, worth about £392.0 million, since its last notification on February 28. The share sales are part of the trading plan that has been in place since July 2021. The UK government had owned 84% of NatWest following a taxpayer bailout of what was then Royal Bank of Scotland Group during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. As recently as 2018, the government held a 62% stake in NatWest, but it has been selling this down progressively since.

Current stock price: 439.80 pence, down 1.4% in London on Thursday morning for a £35.47 billion market capitalisation.

12-month change: up 74%

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