BLK 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 BLK shares is 2382, representing 81.04% of the company's common stock.

UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS INC, in the last quarter, reduced its stake in BLK by -0.11% restricting it's holding to 843.78 thousand shares of worth nearly $703.46M. FIL LTD also lessened -6.86% of the BLK shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 782.83 thousand shares of worth $652.64M. HARRIS ASSOCIATES L P also shunned BLK shares holding by -7.6% last quarter which brought its holding to 731.32 thousand shares worth $609.70M.

As per its latest 13F filing, BEUTEL, GOODMAN & CO LTD. increased its stake in BLK by 0.17% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 363.6 thousand shares having worth more than $303.13M. UBS GROUP AG also added 13.8% more shares of BLK to its portfolio, raising its holding to 903.94 thousand shares of worth $753.61M. ROYAL BANK OF CANADA also increased its BLK shares holding by 5.54% which brought its holding to 812.86 thousand shares worth $677.69M.

The insider with the most stakes in BLK is WAGNER SUSAN , director at the company. Additionally, BLK stock is highly held by Chairman and CEO FINK LAURENCE and President KAPITO ROBERT among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 0.85% percent of BlackRock, Inc.'s stock. Within the last six months, there have been 7 transaction(s) in which BLK insiders have sold stock, totaling 29.63K shares. Insiders that have sold shares include WIEDMAN MARK, KUSHEL J. RICHARD, and FINK LAURENCE.

There have been 0 transaction(s) during the past 6-months in which BlackRock, Inc. insiders have bought stock, totalling 0 shares

Around 452.48K BlackRock, Inc. shares are held by insiders, which represents about 0.85% of BLK stock.

BLK director, WAGNER SUSAN holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. BLK shares owned by WAGNER total nearly 431.95 thousand.

BEUTEL, GOODMAN & CO LTD. is the largest institutional owner in BLK which holds 363.6 thousand shares worth $303.13M or 0.24% of the total BLK shares outstanding followed by UBS GROUP AG with ownership of 903.94 thousand shares representing 0.61% of the BLK ownership. UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS INC is the third largest stakeholder with 843.78 thousand shares or 0.57% of the ownership worth more than $703.46M.

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 BLK is concerned, it is a stock which is optionable.

Number of BLK shares short is 1.36M. 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, 154.88M shares of BLK 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, BLK has 154.88M 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 BLK is 1.78.