Is there an alternative to computershared.net that keeps track of all the shares owned by insiders, institutions, etfs, retail etc? I thought Computershared did a fantastic job of keeping up to date numbers, but since it went down I haven’t been able to find a good alternative.
The reason I ask is because it disappeared rather quietly, and considering how important share counts are, I thought it critically important to follow.
The latest info I have is from May 29th, 2023
- 15% institutions
- 12% mutual funds
- 10% etfs
- 13% insiders
- 5% insider stagnant
- 17.1% pure drs
- 10.9% directstock
- .1% operational efficiency
This gives a grand total of 81.6% of shares owned.
I find it curious that the website went down when ownership was hitting these levels. VW’s short squeeze was 62.6% ownership of total shares by Porsche and Lower Saxony, and 32% were “owned” through options by Porsche. Northern Pacific Railway had 94% of its total shares owned by James Hill and JP Morgan.
If there are 18.4% shares remaining, that equates to 56,074,000 shares. At a current price of $16.36, someone would need roughly 16.36*56,074,000 = $974,370,640 dollars to buy the remaining float. Who, or which company has that?
What’s the story with Northern Pacific Railway?
One of the largest short squeezes in history, especially in terms of market impact. Definitely a story worth knowing about. Here’s a good article on this topic:
https://novelinvestor.com/the-biggest-short-squeeze-of-the-last-century/
You might also like reading about the squeeze circumstances which led to the birth of the modern Federal Reserve. We have a good article on that over at WhyDRS:
https://www.whydrs.org/post/the-panic-of-1907-and-the-birth-of-the-federal-reserve