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The considerable ownership by individual investors in Bear Creek Mining indicates that they collectively have a greater say in management and business strategy
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A total of 21 investors have a majority stake in the company with 48% ownership
If you want to know who really controls Bear Creek Mining Corporation (CVE:BCM), then you'll have to look at the makeup of its share registry. We can see that individual investors own the lion's share in the company with 52% ownership. Put another way, the group faces the maximum upside potential (or downside risk).
Meanwhile, public companies make up 31% of the company’s shareholders.
Let's delve deeper into each type of owner of Bear Creek Mining, beginning with the chart below.
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What Does The Institutional Ownership Tell Us About Bear Creek Mining?
Many institutions measure their performance against an index that approximates the local market. So they usually pay more attention to companies that are included in major indices.
As you can see, institutional investors have a fair amount of stake in Bear Creek Mining. 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. When multiple institutions own a stock, there's always a risk that they are in a 'crowded trade'. When such a trade goes wrong, multiple parties may compete to sell stock fast. This risk is higher in a company without a history of growth. You can see Bear Creek Mining's historic earnings and revenue below, but keep in mind there's always more to the story.
Hedge funds don't have many shares in Bear Creek Mining. Our data shows that Sandstorm Gold Ltd. is the largest shareholder with 20% of shares outstanding. In comparison, the second and third largest shareholders hold about 11% and 9.9% of the stock.
Our studies suggest that the top 21 shareholders collectively control less than half of the company's shares, meaning that the company's shares are widely disseminated and there is no dominant shareholder.
Researching institutional ownership is a good way to gauge and filter a stock's expected performance. The same can be achieved by studying analyst sentiments. Our information suggests that there isn't any analyst coverage of the stock, so it is probably little known.
Insider Ownership Of Bear Creek Mining
The definition of company insiders can be subjective and does vary between jurisdictions. Our data reflects individual insiders, capturing board members at the very least. The company management answer to the board and the latter should represent the interests of shareholders. Notably, sometimes top-level managers are on the board themselves.