Great week for Nederman Holding AB (publ) (STO:NMAN) institutional investors after losing 11% over the previous year

Key Insights

• Significantly high institutional ownership implies Nederman Holding's stock price is sensitive to their trading actions
• A total of 4 investors have a majority stake in the company with 58% ownership
• Recent purchases by insiders

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Every investor in Nederman Holding AB (publ) (STO:NMAN) should be aware of the most powerful shareholder groups. With 48% stake, institutions possess the maximum shares in the company. Put another way, the group faces the maximum upside potential (or downside risk).

Institutional investors would appreciate the 10% increase in share price last week, given their one-year losses have totalled a disappointing 11%.

Let's take a closer look to see what the different types of shareholders can tell us about Nederman Holding.

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What Does The Institutional Ownership Tell Us About Nederman 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.

Nederman 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. 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 Nederman Holding's earnings history below. Of course, the future is what really matters.

Hedge funds don't have many shares in Nederman Holding. Our data shows that Investment AB Latour (publ) is the largest shareholder with 30% of shares outstanding. With 10% and 9.9% of the shares outstanding respectively, Ernström & Co AB and Sampo Oyj, Asset Management Arm are the second and third largest shareholders. Furthermore, CEO Sven Kristensson is the owner of 1.0% of the company's shares.

To make our study more interesting, we found that the top 4 shareholders control more than half of the company which implies that this group has considerable sway over the company's decision-making.

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. We're not picking up on any analyst coverage of the stock at the moment, so the company is unlikely to be widely held.

Insider Ownership Of Nederman Holding

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. Management ultimately answers to the board. However, it is not uncommon for managers to be executive board members, especially if they are a founder or the CEO.

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.

We can see that insiders own shares in Nederman Holding AB (publ). It has a market capitalization of just kr6.7b, and insiders have kr73m worth of shares, in their own names. Some would say this shows alignment of interests between shareholders and the board. But it might be worth checking if those insiders have been selling.

General Public Ownership

With a 11% ownership, the general public, mostly comprising of individual investors, have some degree of sway over Nederman Holding. While this group can't necessarily call the shots, it can certainly have a real influence on how the company is run.

Private Equity Ownership

With a stake of 30%, private equity firms could influence the Nederman Holding board. Some might like this, because private equity are sometimes activists who hold management accountable. But other times, private equity is selling out, having taking the company public.

Private Company Ownership

It seems that Private Companies own 10%, of the Nederman Holding stock. It's hard to draw any conclusions from this fact alone, so its worth looking into who owns those private companies. Sometimes insiders or other related parties have an interest in shares in a public company through a separate private company.

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. Consider risks, for instance. Every company has them, and we've spotted 2 warning signs for Nederman Holding you should know about.

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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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