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Key Insights
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ForFarmers' significant private companies ownership suggests that the key decisions are influenced by shareholders from the larger public
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A total of 2 investors have a majority stake in the company with 58% ownership
A look at the shareholders of ForFarmers N.V. (AMS:FFARM) can tell us which group is most powerful. With 49% stake, private companies possess the maximum shares in the company. Put another way, the group faces the maximum upside potential (or downside risk).
Individual investors, on the other hand, account for 34% of the company's stockholders.
Let's delve deeper into each type of owner of ForFarmers, beginning with the chart below.
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What Does The Institutional Ownership Tell Us About ForFarmers?
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.
Less than 5% of ForFarmers is held by institutional investors. This suggests that some funds have the company in their sights, but many have not yet bought shares in it. If the business gets stronger from here, we could see a situation where more institutions are keen to buy. We sometimes see a rising share price when a few big institutions want to buy a certain stock at the same time. The history of earnings and revenue, which you can see below, could be helpful in considering if more institutional investors will want the stock. Of course, there are plenty of other factors to consider, too.
Hedge funds don't have many shares in ForFarmers. Our data shows that Coöperatie FromFarmers U.A. is the largest shareholder with 49% of shares outstanding. Meanwhile, the second and third largest shareholders, hold 9.6% and 5.4%, of the shares outstanding, respectively.
To make our study more interesting, we found that the top 2 shareholders have a majority ownership in the company, meaning that they are powerful enough to influence the decisions of the company.
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 is a little analyst coverage of the stock, but not much. So there is room for it to gain more coverage.
Insider Ownership Of ForFarmers
The definition of an insider can differ slightly between different countries, but members of the board of directors always count. 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.