Barkat brothers put Meitav up on the market

Meitav Funding Home (TASE: MTAV) is on the market. Funding financial institution JP Morgan has been requested to discover a purchaser by the controlling shareholders, brothers Eli and Nir Barkat. On behalf of the brothers’ holding firm BRM, the funding financial institution has approached a number of events and proposed a number of prospects for a deal, amongst them one that may embrace the sale of the holding of the Stepak household, which controls Meitav collectively with BRM. At current, nonetheless, the Stepak household’s stake shouldn’t be anticipated to be bought, whatever the worth supplied.

Zvi Stepak advised “Globes” that the household had no intention of promoting its shares. Stepak, who based Meitav, transferred his holdings to his kids a number of years in the past. “International buyers found the corporate a number of months in the past. There was a deal by which we have been barely diluted, and since then curiosity within the inventory has naturally grown,” Stepak mentioned.

Eli and Nir Barkat maintain a 24.1% stake in what’s Israel’s largest funding home, value NIS 3.3 billion, and search to reap the benefits of the 1,300% rise in its share worth over the previous three years to money in. At NIS 13 billion, Meitav has the thirty sixth highest market cap on the Tel Aviv Inventory Alternate, and isn’t removed from accession to the Tel Aviv 35 Index.

The Barkat brothers turned joint controlling shareholders in Meitav in 2013, when Meitav merged with funding home Sprint. In 2016, Meitav agreed a sale to Chinese language fund XIO at a valuation of almost NIS 1.5 billion, however a 12 months later the deal was canceled.

Meitav said in response: “We’ve got seen approaches from overseas buyers to the corporate, which is perceived as enticing. Within the providing final December worldwide entities have been uncovered to the corporate’s enterprise, and since then approaches have been obtained on the matter by the corporate and by the controlling shareholders. The corporate examines each method and alternative in accordance with a spread of issues.”

Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on June 4, 2026.