DATAGROUP SE's (ETR:D6H) largest shareholders are private companies with 54% ownership, individual investors own 34%

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editorial-team@simplywallst.com (Simply Wall St)

Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 10:41 PM 4 min read

If you want to know who really controls DATAGROUP SE (ETR:D6H), then you'll have to look at the makeup of its share registry. And the group that holds the biggest piece of the pie are private companies with 54% ownership. In other words, the group stands to gain the most (or lose the most) from their investment into the company.

And individual investors on the other hand have a 34% ownership in the company.

Let's delve deeper into each type of owner of DATAGROUP, beginning with the chart below.

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ownership-breakdown — XTRA:D6H Ownership Breakdown April 14th 2025

What Does The Institutional Ownership Tell Us About DATAGROUP?

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.

We can see that DATAGROUP does have institutional investors; and they hold a good portion of the company's stock. This suggests some credibility amongst professional investors. But we can't rely on that fact alone since institutions make bad investments sometimes, just like everyone does. It is not uncommon to see a big share price drop if two large institutional investors try to sell out of a stock at the same time. So it is worth checking the past earnings trajectory of DATAGROUP, (below). Of course, keep in mind that there are other factors to consider, too.

earnings-and-revenue-growth — XTRA:D6H Earnings and Revenue Growth April 14th 2025

Hedge funds don't have many shares in DATAGROUP. HHS Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH is currently the company's largest shareholder with 55% of shares outstanding. This implies that they have majority interest control of the future of the company. The second and third largest shareholders are KBC Asset Management NV and CM-CIC Asset Management SA, with an equal amount of shares to their name at 1.5%.

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. Quite a few analysts cover the stock, so you could look into forecast growth quite easily.

Insider Ownership Of DATAGROUP

While the precise definition of an insider can be subjective, almost everyone considers board members to be insiders. Company management run the business, but the CEO will answer to the board, even if he or she is a member of it.

Most consider insider ownership a positive because it can indicate the board is well aligned with other shareholders. However, on some occasions too much power is concentrated within this group.

We note our data does not show any board members holding shares, personally. Given we are not picking up on insider ownership, we may have missing data. Therefore, it would be interesting to assess the CEO compensation and tenure, here.

General Public Ownership

The general public-- including retail investors -- own 34% stake in the company, and hence can't easily be ignored. While this size of ownership may not be enough to sway a policy decision in their favour, they can still make a collective impact on company policies.

Private Company Ownership

We can see that Private Companies own 54%, of the shares on issue. It might be worth looking deeper into this. If related parties, such as insiders, have an interest in one of these private companies, that should be disclosed in the annual report. Private companies may also have a strategic interest in the company.

Next Steps:

I find it very interesting to look at who exactly owns a company. But to truly gain insight, we need to consider other information, too. Be aware that DATAGROUP is showing 2 warning signs in our investment analysis , you should know about...

But ultimately it is the future, not the past, that will determine how well the owners of this business will do. Therefore we think it advisable to take a look at this free report showing whether analysts are predicting a brighter future.

NB: Figures in this article are calculated using data from the last twelve months, which refer to the 12-month period ending on the last date of the month the financial statement is dated. This may not be consistent with full year annual report figures.

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