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Velodyne Lidar Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Recent Insider Transactions

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: VLDR insiders have sold more shares than they have bought in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of VLDR?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Public Companies	15,504,468	6.51%
Individual Insiders	19,609,712	8.23%
Institutions	65,278,220	27.4%
General Public	137,889,467	57.9%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have been diluted in the past year, with total shares outstanding growing by 20.3%.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 36.39% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
6.51%	Baidu, Inc.	15,504,468	US$19.5m	0%	no data
5.55%	BlackRock, Inc.	13,219,526	US$16.7m	11.1%	no data
4.17%	Joseph Culkin	9,931,558	US$12.5m	0%	no data
4.11%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	9,793,065	US$12.3m	0.63%	no data
2.32%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	5,518,935	US$7.0m	11.1%	no data
1.54%	Mitsubishi UFJ Kokusai Asset Management Co., Ltd.	3,657,709	US$4.6m	72.8%	no data
1.44%	Two Sigma Advisers, LP	3,423,700	US$4.3m	-5.31%	0.01%
1.41%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	3,359,805	US$4.2m	20.9%	no data
0.98%	Pacific Investment Management Company LLC	2,332,300	US$2.9m	0.13%	0.01%
0.86%	Voya Investment Management LLC	2,039,957	US$2.6m	2,290%	no data
0.84%	D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.	1,992,133	US$2.5m	30%	no data
0.74%	Two Sigma Investments, LP	1,754,483	US$2.2m	-57.8%	0.01%
0.71%	Northern Trust Global Investments	1,687,164	US$2.1m	9.2%	no data
0.67%	Mark Weinswig	1,589,711	US$2.0m	0%	no data
0.58%	Joseph Jellen	1,376,552	US$1.7m	0%	no data
0.57%	Anurag Gupta	1,358,149	US$1.7m	-0.94%	no data
0.55%	Citadel Advisors LLC	1,316,085	US$1.7m	-25.3%	no data
0.52%	Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc.	1,243,024	US$1.6m	0%	no data
0.44%	Mathew Rekow	1,052,997	US$1.3m	-0.12%	no data
0.37%	Rafferty Asset Management, LLC	872,966	US$1.1m	27.2%	0.01%
0.34%	AQR Capital Management, LLC	813,412	US$1.0m	444%	no data
0.33%	Plustick Management Llc	796,915	US$1.0m	0%	0.75%
0.33%	Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund	777,014	US$979.0k	0.65%	no data
0.28%	Daniel Horwood	660,937	US$832.8k	2.95%	no data
0.26%	BNY Mellon Asset Management	627,748	US$791.0k	21.8%	no data

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2023/02/14 07:56
End of Day Share Price	2023/02/10 00:00
Earnings	2022/09/30
Annual Earnings	2021/12/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

Velodyne Lidar, Inc. is covered by 11 analysts. 7 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Tristan Gerra	Baird
Ruben Roy	Benchmark Company
Michael Filatov	Berenberg