InPost S.A.'s (AMS:INPST) largest shareholders are private companies with 41% ownership, institutions own 28%
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Significant control over InPost by private companies implies that the general public has more power to influence management and governance-related decisions
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A total of 3 investors have a majority stake in the company with 52% ownership
If you want to know who really controls InPost S.A. (AMS:INPST), then you'll have to look at the makeup of its share registry. With 41% stake, private companies possess the maximum shares in the company. Put another way, the group faces the maximum upside potential (or downside risk).
Meanwhile, institutions make up 28% of the company’s shareholders. Generally speaking, as a company grows, institutions will increase their ownership. Conversely, insiders often decrease their ownership over time.
In the chart below, we zoom in on the different ownership groups of InPost.
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What Does The Institutional Ownership Tell Us About InPost?
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.
InPost already has institutions on the share registry. Indeed, they own a respectable stake in the company. 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 InPost's earnings history below. Of course, the future is what really matters.
Hedge funds don't have many shares in InPost. The company's largest shareholder is Ppf Holdings B.V., with ownership of 29%. Meanwhile, the second and third largest shareholders, hold 12% and 11%, of the shares outstanding, respectively.
To make our study more interesting, we found that the top 3 shareholders have a majority ownership in the company, meaning that they are powerful enough to influence the decisions of the company.
While studying institutional ownership for a company can add value to your research, it is also a good practice to research analyst recommendations to get a deeper understand of a stock's expected performance. There are a reasonable number of analysts covering the stock, so it might be useful to find out their aggregate view on the future.
Insider Ownership Of InPost
While the precise definition of an insider can be subjective, almost everyone considers board members to be insiders. Company management run the business, but the CEO will answer to the board, even if he or she is a member of it.