ARDX Stock Ownership Breakdown

A company's 13F filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) provides investors with comprehensive information about institutional ownership in a listed company, a sign of strength in terms of how many institutions have confidence in that company. The number of institutional investors who currently own ARDX shares is 264, representing 62% of the company's common stock.

BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON CORP, in the last quarter, reduced its stake in ARDX by -8.55% restricting it's holding to 965.76 thousand shares of worth nearly $7.05M. NORTHERN TRUST CORP also lessened -1.78% of the ARDX shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 2.15 million shares of worth $15.69M. MORGAN STANLEY also shunned ARDX shares holding by -24.85% last quarter which brought its holding to 2.41 million shares worth $17.58M.

As per its latest 13F filing, CITIGROUP INC increased its stake in ARDX by 69.82% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 943.49 thousand shares having worth more than $6.89M. CHARLES SCHWAB INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC also added 2.04% more shares of ARDX to its portfolio, raising its holding to 1.85 million shares of worth $13.53M. GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC also increased its ARDX shares holding by 80.38% which brought its holding to 1.99 million shares worth $14.54M.

The insider with the most stakes in ARDX is MOTT DAVID M , director at the company. Additionally, ARDX stock is highly held by President & CEO RAAB MICHAEL and Chief Commercial Officer Rodriguez Susan among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 1.86% percent of Ardelyx, Inc.'s stock. Within the last six months, there have been 20 transaction(s) in which ARDX insiders have sold stock, totaling 382.13K shares. Insiders that have sold shares include RAAB MICHAEL, GRAMMER ELIZABETH A, and WILLIAMS LAURA A.

There have been 3 transaction(s) during the past 6-months in which Ardelyx, Inc. insiders have bought stock, totalling 628168 shares

Around 20.02M Ardelyx, Inc. shares are held by insiders, which represents about 1.86% of ARDX stock.

ARDX director, MOTT DAVID M holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. ARDX shares owned by MOTT total nearly 1.94 million.

CITIGROUP INC is the largest institutional owner in ARDX which holds 943.49 thousand shares worth $6.89M or 0.43% of the total ARDX shares outstanding followed by BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON CORP with ownership of 965.76 thousand shares representing 0.44% of the ARDX ownership. CHARLES SCHWAB INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC is the third largest stakeholder with 1.85 million shares or 0.85% of the ownership worth more than $13.53M.

Stock options give the owner the ability but not the obligation to buy or sell a security at a predetermined price and date. Stock options can be classified into two types: puts and calls. A put is a bet on falling stock, and a call is a bet on rising stock. As far as the ARDX is concerned, it is a stock which is optionable.

Number of ARDX shares short is 23.62M. Shares short is a market sentiment in which investors have sold their shares short in a given stock but have not yet covered them or closed them out.

As of today, 236.85M shares of ARDX are outstanding.

Float represents the number of tradeable shares in a specific stock. By subtracting restricted and closely-held shares from a firm's total outstanding shares, we can calculate its floating stock. The term "closely-held shares" refers to shares held by employees, major shareholders, and company insiders. At present, ARDX has 231.38M shares in float.

Short ratio is calculated by dividing the number of short shares, short interest or bets that shareholders will sell short from the average daily volume. A higher ratio indicates longer times needed to repurchase borrowed shares (sold). The short ratio for ARDX is 4.5.