Hasher, if companies could get their shareholder information from the SEC or DTCC these questions would simply not exist. Why is this information not available even under FIA? These are surely not state security issues, so the whole secrecy thing is suspect and one of the things we may hopefully see changed as things get aired out here.
Do you have a link to that 1.7 T share sales figure? I'd like to look into that a bit deeper and get a clearer understanding here.