While public companies own 32% of Daimler Truck Holding AG (ETR:DTG), individual investors are its largest shareholders with 32% ownership

editorial-team@simplywallst.com (Simply Wall St)

Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 9:04 PM 4 min read

If you want to know who really controls Daimler Truck Holding AG (ETR:DTG), then you'll have to look at the makeup of its share registry. With 32% stake, individual investors possess the maximum shares in the company. In other words, the group stands to gain the most (or lose the most) from their investment into the company.

Public companies, on the other hand, account for 32% of the company's stockholders.

Let's delve deeper into each type of owner of Daimler Truck Holding, beginning with the chart below.

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ownership-breakdown — XTRA:DTG Ownership Breakdown January 28th 2025

What Does The Institutional Ownership Tell Us About Daimler Truck Holding?

Many institutions measure their performance against an index that approximates the local market. So they usually pay more attention to companies that are included in major indices.

We can see that Daimler Truck Holding does have institutional investors; and they hold a good portion of the company's stock. 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. If multiple institutions change their view on a stock at the same time, you could see the share price drop fast. It's therefore worth looking at Daimler Truck Holding's earnings history below. Of course, the future is what really matters.

earnings-and-revenue-growth — XTRA:DTG Earnings and Revenue Growth January 28th 2025

Hedge funds don't have many shares in Daimler Truck Holding. Looking at our data, we can see that the largest shareholder is Mercedes-Benz Group AG with 32% of shares outstanding. The second and third largest shareholders are Mercedes-Benz Pension Trust e.V. and Kuwait Investment Authority, with an equal amount of shares to their name at 5.3%.

We also observed that the top 6 shareholders account for more than half of the share register, with a few smaller shareholders to balance the interests of the larger ones to a certain extent.

While studying institutional ownership for a company can add value to your research, it is also a good practice to research analyst recommendations to get a deeper understand of a stock's expected performance. There are plenty of analysts covering the stock, so it might be worth seeing what they are forecasting, too.

Insider Ownership Of Daimler Truck 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.

Insider ownership is positive when it signals leadership are thinking like the true owners of the company. However, high insider ownership can also give immense power to a small group within the company. This can be negative in some circumstances.

Our data cannot confirm that board members are holding shares personally. Given we are not picking up on insider ownership, we may have missing data. Therefore, it would be interesting to assess the CEO compensation and tenure, here.

General Public Ownership

With a 32% ownership, the general public, mostly comprising of individual investors, have some degree of sway over Daimler Truck Holding. This size of ownership, while considerable, may not be enough to change company policy if the decision is not in sync with other large shareholders.

Private Company Ownership

Our data indicates that Private Companies hold 5.3%, of the company's shares. It might be worth looking deeper into this. If related parties, such as insiders, have an interest in one of these private companies, that should be disclosed in the annual report. Private companies may also have a strategic interest in the company.

Public Company Ownership

We can see that public companies hold 32% of the Daimler Truck Holding shares on issue. This may be a strategic interest and the two companies may have related business interests. It could be that they have de-merged. This holding is probably worth investigating further.

Next Steps:

It's always worth thinking about the different groups who own shares in a company. But to understand Daimler Truck Holding better, we need to consider many other factors. To that end, you should learn about the 2 warning signs we've spotted with Daimler Truck Holding (including 1 which can't be ignored) .

If you are like me, you may want to think about whether this company will grow or shrink. Luckily, you can check this free report showing analyst forecasts for its future.

NB: Figures in this article are calculated using data from the last twelve months, which refer to the 12-month period ending on the last date of the month the financial statement is dated. This may not be consistent with full year annual report figures.

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