DAL 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 DAL shares is 1429, representing 80.87% of the company's common stock.

MORGAN STANLEY, in the last quarter, reduced its stake in DAL by -1.16% restricting it's holding to 11.87 million shares of worth nearly $568.13M. GMT CAPITAL CORP also lessened -0.58% of the DAL shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 6.76 million shares of worth $323.52M. HOLOCENE ADVISORS, LP also shunned DAL shares holding by -1.33% last quarter which brought its holding to 4.23 million shares worth $202.31M.

As per its latest 13F filing, J. L. BAINBRIDGE & CO., INC. increased its stake in DAL by 2.56% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 817.8 thousand shares having worth more than $39.15M. DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP also added 5.42% more shares of DAL to its portfolio, raising its holding to 8.83 million shares of worth $422.60M. FMR LLC also increased its DAL shares holding by 9.76% which brought its holding to 8.11 million shares worth $388.21M.

The insider with the most stakes in DAL is BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC , 10 percent owner at the company. Additionally, DAL stock is highly held by Chief Executive Officer Bastian Edward H and EVP & CFO Jacobson Paul A among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 0.27% percent of Delta Air Lines, Inc.'s stock. Within the last six months, there have been 16 transaction(s) in which DAL insiders have sold stock, totaling 425.92K shares. Insiders that have sold shares include BASTIAN EDWARD H, CARROLL WILLIAM C, and SMITH JOANNE D.

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

Around 2.03M Delta Air Lines, Inc. shares are held by insiders, which represents about 0.27% of DAL stock.

DAL 10 percent owner, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. DAL shares owned by BERKSHIRE total nearly 58.9 million.

MORGAN STANLEY is the largest institutional owner in DAL which holds 11.87 million shares worth $568.13M or 1.85% of the total DAL shares outstanding followed by J. L. BAINBRIDGE & CO., INC. with ownership of 817.8 thousand shares representing 0.13% of the DAL ownership. NEWPORT TRUST CO is the third largest stakeholder with 10.43 million shares or 1.63% of the ownership worth more than $499.07M.

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

Number of DAL shares short is 36.10M. 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, 645.28M shares of DAL 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, DAL has 638.10M 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 DAL is 4.94.