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The considerable ownership by individual investors in CEWE Stiftung KGaA indicates that they collectively have a greater say in management and business strategy
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A total of 13 investors have a majority stake in the company with 50% ownership
To get a sense of who is truly in control of CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA (ETR:CWC), it is important to understand the ownership structure of the business. And the group that holds the biggest piece of the pie are individual investors with 38% ownership. That is, the group stands to benefit the most if the stock rises (or lose the most if there is a downturn).
Institutions, on the other hand, account for 33% of the company's stockholders. Large companies usually have institutions as shareholders, and we usually see insiders owning shares in smaller companies.
Let's delve deeper into each type of owner of CEWE Stiftung KGaA, beginning with the chart below.
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What Does The Institutional Ownership Tell Us About CEWE Stiftung KGaA?
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.
We can see that CEWE Stiftung KGaA does have institutional investors; and they hold a good portion of the company's stock. 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 CEWE Stiftung KGaA's earnings history below. Of course, the future is what really matters.
We note that hedge funds don't have a meaningful investment in CEWE Stiftung KGaA. Looking at our data, we can see that the largest shareholder is Alexander Neumüller with 29% of shares outstanding. Meanwhile, the second and third largest shareholders, hold 5.3% and 3.2%, of the shares outstanding, respectively.
After doing some more digging, we found that the top 13 have the combined ownership of 50% in the company, suggesting that no single shareholder has significant control over the company.
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.