Who Owns Free People?
Updated onExplore the ownership hierarchy of Free People. See parent companies, holding structures, and ultimate controllers.
Ownership Chain
Free People
Free People is an American bohemian women’s apparel and lifestyle brand and retailer owned by Urban Outfitters that sells clothing, accessories, shoes, intimates, swimwear, and related products worldwide.
URBN
URBN is the publicly traded parent company of Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, and other global lifestyle retail brands headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Free People
Free People is an American bohemian women’s apparel and lifestyle brand and retailer owned by Urban Outfitters that sells clothing, accessories, shoes, intimates, swimwear, and related products worldwide.
URBN
URBN is the publicly traded parent company of Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, and other global lifestyle retail brands headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Major Shareholders
URBN
Major Shareholders
| Name | Type | Ownership | Voting | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Richard A. Hayne Co‑founder, CEO and Chairman of Urban Outfitters. Form 4 filings in November–December 2025 show Hayne directly owning ~17.85M URBN shares and indirectly owning ~6.31M shares through his spouse, family trusts, a foundation and retirement plans, for total beneficial ownership of about 24.16M shares. Using roughly 92.3M common shares outstanding, this equates to approximately 26% of URBN’s equity and voting power as of December 18, 2025. | Founder | 26.0% | 26.0% | Dec 2025 |
BlackRock, Inc. Largest institutional shareholder. Form 13F data aggregated by Yahoo Finance list BlackRock, Inc. as holding about 10.46M URBN shares, representing approximately 11.66% of shares outstanding as of September 30, 2025. | Institutional | 11.7% | 11.7% | Sep 2025 |
The Vanguard Group, Inc. Second‑largest institutional holder. SEC institutional holdings data compiled by Yahoo Finance indicate that The Vanguard Group, Inc. owns about 6.9M URBN shares, or roughly 7.69% of outstanding shares as of September 30, 2025. | Institutional | 7.7% | 7.7% | Sep 2025 |
FMR LLC (Fidelity) Major institutional shareholder. Yahoo Finance’s major‑holders summary and related institutional ownership data report FMR LLC (Fidelity) holding approximately 4.92M URBN shares, equal to about 5.48% of shares outstanding as of September 30, 2025. | Institutional | 5.5% | 5.5% | Sep 2025 |
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