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Significant insider control over MS INTERNATIONAL implies vested interests in company growth
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52% of the business is held by the top 5 shareholders
If you want to know who really controls MS INTERNATIONAL plc (LON:MSI), then you'll have to look at the makeup of its share registry. We can see that individual insiders own the lion's share in the company with 41% ownership. That is, the group stands to benefit the most if the stock rises (or lose the most if there is a downturn).
Notably, insiders have bought shares recently. This might indicate that they expect share prices to rise in the near future.
In the chart below, we zoom in on the different ownership groups of MS INTERNATIONAL.
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What Does The Institutional Ownership Tell Us About MS INTERNATIONAL?
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.
MS INTERNATIONAL already has institutions on the share registry. Indeed, they own a respectable stake in the company. 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 MS INTERNATIONAL'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 MS INTERNATIONAL. Our data suggests that Michael Bell, who is also the company's Top Key Executive, holds the most number of shares at 18%. When an insider holds a sizeable amount of a company's stock, investors consider it as a positive sign because it suggests that insiders are willing to have their wealth tied up in the future of the company. With 11% and 11% of the shares outstanding respectively, Fleming Family & Partners Ltd. and David Pyle are the second and third largest shareholders.
On looking further, we found that 52% of the shares are owned by the top 5 shareholders. In other words, these shareholders have a meaningful say in the decisions of the company.
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.