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The considerable ownership by individual investors in John Marshall Bancorp indicates that they collectively have a greater say in management and business strategy
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A total of 25 investors have a majority stake in the company with 50% ownership
To get a sense of who is truly in control of John Marshall Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:JMSB), it is important to understand the ownership structure of the business. And the group that holds the biggest piece of the pie are individual investors with 46% ownership. Put another way, the group faces the maximum upside potential (or downside risk).
Meanwhile, institutions make up 42% of the company’s shareholders. Institutions often own shares in more established companies, while it's not unusual to see insiders own a fair bit of smaller companies.
Let's delve deeper into each type of owner of John Marshall Bancorp, beginning with the chart below.
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What Does The Institutional Ownership Tell Us About John Marshall Bancorp?
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.
As you can see, institutional investors have a fair amount of stake in John Marshall Bancorp. 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. 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 John Marshall Bancorp, (below). Of course, keep in mind that there are other factors to consider, too.
Hedge funds don't have many shares in John Marshall Bancorp. T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. is currently the company's largest shareholder with 13% of shares outstanding. In comparison, the second and third largest shareholders hold about 6.0% and 4.6% of the stock.
On studying our ownership data, we found that 25 of the top shareholders collectively own less than 50% of the share register, implying that no single individual has a majority interest.
While it makes sense to study institutional ownership data for a company, it also makes sense to study analyst sentiments to know which way the wind is blowing. Our information suggests that there isn't any analyst coverage of the stock, so it is probably little known.
Insider Ownership Of John Marshall Bancorp
While the precise definition of an insider can be subjective, almost everyone considers board members to be insiders. 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.