Individual investors among Gielda Papierów Wartosciowych w Warszawie S.A.'s (WSE:GPW) largest shareholders, saw gain in holdings value after stock jumped 8.2% last week

Key Insights

• Significant control over Gielda Papierów Wartosciowych w Warszawie by individual investors implies that the general public has more power to influence management and governance-related decisions
• The top 5 shareholders own 52% of the company
• 26% of Gielda Papierów Wartosciowych w Warszawie is held by Institutions

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If you want to know who really controls Gielda Papierów Wartosciowych w Warszawie S.A. (WSE:GPW), then you'll have to look at the makeup of its share registry. The group holding the most number of shares in the company, around 39% to be precise, is individual investors. That is, the group stands to benefit the most if the stock rises (or lose the most if there is a downturn).

As a result, individual investors were the biggest beneficiaries of last week’s 8.2% gain.

Let's delve deeper into each type of owner of Gielda Papierów Wartosciowych w Warszawie, beginning with the chart below.

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What Does The Institutional Ownership Tell Us About Gielda Papierów Wartosciowych w Warszawie?

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.

Gielda Papierów Wartosciowych w Warszawie 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 Gielda Papierów Wartosciowych w Warszawie'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 Gielda Papierów Wartosciowych w Warszawie. Looking at our data, we can see that the largest shareholder is The State Treasury of the Republic of Poland with 35% of shares outstanding. Meanwhile, the second and third largest shareholders, hold 5.3% and 5.0%, of the shares outstanding, respectively.

To make our study more interesting, we found that the top 5 shareholders control more than half of the company which implies that this group has considerable sway over the company's decision-making.

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 Gielda Papierów Wartosciowych w Warszawie

The definition of company insiders can be subjective and does vary between jurisdictions. Our data reflects individual insiders, capturing board members at the very least. 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.

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

The general public, who are usually individual investors, hold a 39% stake in Gielda Papierów Wartosciowych w Warszawie. 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.

Next Steps:

I find it very interesting to look at who exactly owns a company. But to truly gain insight, we need to consider other information, too. Take risks for example - Gielda Papierów Wartosciowych w Warszawie has 2 warning signs (and 1 which shouldn't be ignored) we think you should know about.

Ultimately the future is most important. You can access this free report on analyst forecasts for the company.

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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