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Every investor in SoftwareONE Holding AG (VTX:SWON) should be aware of the most powerful shareholder groups. And the group that holds the biggest piece of the pie are individual investors with 41% ownership. In other words, the group stands to gain the most (or lose the most) from their investment into the company.
Private companies, on the other hand, account for 30% of the company's stockholders.
Let's delve deeper into each type of owner of SoftwareONE Holding, beginning with the chart below.
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What Does The Institutional Ownership Tell Us About SoftwareONE Holding?
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.
SoftwareONE Holding 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. 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 SoftwareONE Holding, (below). Of course, keep in mind that there are other factors to consider, too.
We note that hedge funds don't have a meaningful investment in SoftwareONE Holding. B. Curti Holding Ag is currently the company's largest shareholder with 30% of shares outstanding. In comparison, the second and third largest shareholders hold about 5.2% and 3.3% of the stock. Furthermore, CEO Dieter Schlosser is the owner of 0.6% of the company's shares.
Looking at the shareholder registry, we can see that 51% of the ownership is controlled by the top 14 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.
Insider Ownership Of SoftwareONE Holding
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.
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.