Sunday, November 16, 2014 7:49:07 AM
Your point is a good one. I'm afraid that your examples.....not so much.
Publix is employee owned and basically doesn't trade publicly.
Adidas is a company based in Germany. I don't pretend to understand how its investment vehicles trade. I know that Nasdaq.com reports extremely low institutional ownership for their two symbols appearing on OTCMarkets.com, but I don't think that their OTC listing explains why.
From the Adidas website:
"The adidas AG share is listed on the "Deutsche Börse" stock exchange in Frankfurt. The stock is part of the DAX-30 index, which includes only the largest German companies listed."
"In our latest ownership analysis conducted in February 2014, we identified around 94% of our shares outstanding. Shareholdings in the North American market account for 32% of our total shares outstanding. Identified German institutional investors hold 10% of shares outstanding. The shareholdings in the rest of Europe excluding Germany amount to 37%, while 5% of institutional shareholders were identified in other regions of the world. adidas Group Management, which comprises current members of the Executive and Supervisory Boards, holds less than 2% in total. Undisclosed holdings, which also include private investors, account for the remaining 14%."
http://www.adidas-group.com/en/investors/share/shareholder-structure/
The table on the above page doesn't make it clear what Institutional holdings are, but it clearly isn't zero. Several BlackRock funds hold the shares.
Publix is employee owned and basically doesn't trade publicly.
Adidas is a company based in Germany. I don't pretend to understand how its investment vehicles trade. I know that Nasdaq.com reports extremely low institutional ownership for their two symbols appearing on OTCMarkets.com, but I don't think that their OTC listing explains why.
From the Adidas website:
"The adidas AG share is listed on the "Deutsche Börse" stock exchange in Frankfurt. The stock is part of the DAX-30 index, which includes only the largest German companies listed."
"In our latest ownership analysis conducted in February 2014, we identified around 94% of our shares outstanding. Shareholdings in the North American market account for 32% of our total shares outstanding. Identified German institutional investors hold 10% of shares outstanding. The shareholdings in the rest of Europe excluding Germany amount to 37%, while 5% of institutional shareholders were identified in other regions of the world. adidas Group Management, which comprises current members of the Executive and Supervisory Boards, holds less than 2% in total. Undisclosed holdings, which also include private investors, account for the remaining 14%."
http://www.adidas-group.com/en/investors/share/shareholder-structure/
The table on the above page doesn't make it clear what Institutional holdings are, but it clearly isn't zero. Several BlackRock funds hold the shares.
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