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The considerable ownership by individual investors in Deutsche Beteiligungs indicates that they collectively have a greater say in management and business strategy
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50% of the business is held by the top 22 shareholders
If you want to know who really controls Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (ETR:DBAN), then you'll have to look at the makeup of its share registry. The group holding the most number of shares in the company, around 49% to be precise, is individual investors. In other words, the group stands to gain the most (or lose the most) from their investment into the company.
Individual insiders, on the other hand, account for 40% of the company's stockholders. Insiders often own a large chunk of younger, smaller, companies while huge companies tend to have institutions as shareholders.
In the chart below, we zoom in on the different ownership groups of Deutsche Beteiligungs.
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What Does The Institutional Ownership Tell Us About Deutsche Beteiligungs?
Institutions typically measure themselves against a benchmark when reporting to their own investors, so they often become more enthusiastic about a stock once it's included in a major index. We would expect most companies to have some institutions on the register, especially if they are growing.
As you can see, institutional investors have a fair amount of stake in Deutsche Beteiligungs. 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 Deutsche Beteiligungs, (below). Of course, keep in mind that there are other factors to consider, too.
Hedge funds don't have many shares in Deutsche Beteiligungs. Dirk Rossmann is currently the company's largest shareholder with 29% of shares outstanding. With 10% and 2.9% of the shares outstanding respectively, Ricardo Portabella and The Vanguard Group, Inc. are the second and third largest shareholders.
Looking at the shareholder registry, we can see that 50% of the ownership is controlled by the top 22 shareholders, meaning that no single shareholder has a majority interest in the ownership.
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. There are plenty of analysts covering the stock, so it might be worth seeing what they are forecasting, too.