DOV 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 DOV shares is 1357, representing 86.91% of the company's common stock.

RHUMBLINE ADVISERS, in the last quarter, reduced its stake in DOV by -0.85% restricting it's holding to 282.43 thousand shares of worth nearly $50.04M. WELLS FARGO & COMPANY/MN also lessened -1.27% of the DOV shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 2.23 million shares of worth $395.03M. MORGAN STANLEY also shunned DOV shares holding by -1.3% last quarter which brought its holding to 2.23 million shares worth $394.58M.

As per its latest 13F filing, RETIREMENT SYSTEMS OF ALABAMA increased its stake in DOV by 0.02% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 188.94 thousand shares having worth more than $33.48M. PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ also added 153.74% more shares of DOV to its portfolio, raising its holding to 2.63 million shares of worth $466.62M. FMR LLC also increased its DOV shares holding by 0.01% which brought its holding to 2.37 million shares worth $419.36M.

The insider with the most stakes in DOV is STUBBS MICHAEL B , director at the company. Additionally, DOV stock is highly held by director GRAHAM KRISTIANE C and CEO and President Livingston Robert among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 0.41% percent of Dover Corporation's stock. Within the last six months, there have been 6 transaction(s) in which DOV insiders have sold stock, totaling 48.88K shares. Insiders that have sold shares include CABRERA IVONNE M, JUNEJA GIRISH, and CEREPAK BRAD M.

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

Around 319.56K Dover Corporation shares are held by insiders, which represents about 0.41% of DOV stock.

DOV director, STUBBS MICHAEL B holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. DOV shares owned by STUBBS total nearly 477.39 thousand.

RHUMBLINE ADVISERS is the largest institutional owner in DOV which holds 282.43 thousand shares worth $50.04M or 0.2% of the total DOV shares outstanding followed by RETIREMENT SYSTEMS OF ALABAMA with ownership of 188.94 thousand shares representing 0.14% of the DOV ownership. PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ is the third largest stakeholder with 2.63 million shares or 1.88% of the ownership worth more than $466.62M.

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

Number of DOV shares short is 1.81M. 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, 137.19M shares of DOV 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, DOV has 136.52M 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 DOV is 2.64.