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Key Insights
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Afentra's significant insider ownership suggests inherent interests in company's expansion
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The top 9 shareholders own 51% of the company
If you want to know who really controls Afentra plc (LON:AET), then you'll have to look at the makeup of its share registry. We can see that individual insiders own the lion's share in the company with 37% ownership. Put another way, the group faces the maximum upside potential (or downside risk).
With such a notable stake in the company, insiders would be highly incentivised to make value accretive decisions.
Let's delve deeper into each type of owner of Afentra, beginning with the chart below.
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What Does The Institutional Ownership Tell Us About Afentra?
Institutional investors commonly compare their own returns to the returns of a commonly followed index. So they generally do consider buying larger companies that are included in the relevant benchmark index.
We can see that Afentra does have institutional investors; and they hold a good portion of the company's stock. This implies the analysts working for those institutions have looked at the stock and they like it. But just like anyone else, they could be wrong. If multiple institutions change their view on a stock at the same time, you could see the share price drop fast. It's therefore worth looking at Afentra's earnings history below. Of course, the future is what really matters.
It looks like hedge funds own 6.0% of Afentra shares. That worth noting, since hedge funds are often quite active investors, who may try to influence management. Many want to see value creation (and a higher share price) in the short term or medium term. The company's largest shareholder is Askar Alshinbayev, with ownership of 21%. Meanwhile, the second and third largest shareholders, hold 7.1% and 6.0%, of the shares outstanding, respectively. Furthermore, CEO Paul McDade is the owner of 2.4% of the company's shares.
We did some more digging and found that 9 of the top shareholders account for roughly 51% of the register, implying that along with larger shareholders, there are a few smaller shareholders, thereby balancing out each others interests somewhat.
While studying institutional ownership for a company can add value to your research, it is also a good practice to research analyst recommendations to get a deeper understand of a stock's expected performance. There are plenty of analysts covering the stock, so it might be worth seeing what they are forecasting, too.