thanks for the link. I will do a deeper dive on the shorting as well as institutional ownership this weekend. Pctg ownership and pctg shorted as compared to others in their industry and on the Nasdaq may provide some insight. 4 shorters is not very many, but who are they and how many shares did they short, and are the other 6 institutional shorters mostly short or mostly long? Likewise the top 4 institutional owners make up nearly 68% of the institutional money..so important to look at those..will report back
My findings re institutional holdings: I ended up buying a subscription to Fintel to get a clearer picture. What I found is far worse than even I had thought:
Out of the 195 institutions that they report as holding LWLG , only 1 reported a transaction or ownership of more than half of one percent of their portfolio. That was 272 Capital which has slightly more than 2% of their entire holdings invested in LWLG.
That's very disheartening. NONE of the institutions are making a big bet on Lighwave Logic. If any of these aren't just passive 'index-type' investments there's no sign that they are excited enough to come close to putting any significant percentage at risk, unlike some retail investors have.
In fact the percentage ownership for the vast majority is less than 3/1000 (.003) of one percent! It's miniscule. To see for yourself, I took a snapshot of the buyers page (https://fintel.io/sob/us/lwlg) which includes the large holdings for Blackrock, State Street, and Geode Capital: The percentage ownership is the 3rd column from the right.
FinTel shows 3.2m LWLG shares owned by VTSMX - Vanguard Total Stock Market Index fund, but a percentage similar to the above pcs -- .0019%. The reason it is so low is they are one of over 4,000 stocks in the fund, which has assets of $1.1 TRILLION. So - do the math - $21,459,000 / 1,100,000,000,000 = .0000195 or .00195%
In other words, relatively speaking there are no institutions putting 'REAL' money into LWLG. By contrast, the investment percentage ownership levels in an established company such as Intel are showing as significantly higher.
I also did look at semiconductor related stocks with market caps between $500m and $1.5B to see how they compared, and on average they were owned by about twice as many institutions, and on average the institutions invested twice as much as they did in LWLG
But for me the most telling piece of data is the ownership percentages failing to show a high confidence by any of the institutions, which likely confirms nearly all of them as being passive investments.
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