DOW 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 DOW shares is 1832, representing 71.8% of the company's common stock.

PZENA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC, in the last quarter, reduced its stake in DOW by -0.23% restricting it's holding to 18.52 million shares of worth nearly $1.07B. MORGAN STANLEY also lessened -0.62% of the DOW shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 14.6 million shares of worth $845.59M. CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS also shunned DOW shares holding by -1.01% last quarter which brought its holding to 7.72 million shares worth $447.32M.

As per its latest 13F filing, CALIFORNIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM increased its stake in DOW by 25.27% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 1.63 million shares having worth more than $94.41M. STATE BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION OF FLORIDA RETIREMENT SYSTEM also added 3.61% more shares of DOW to its portfolio, raising its holding to 845.55 thousand shares of worth $46.35M. GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC also increased its DOW shares holding by 2.69% which brought its holding to 14.04 million shares worth $813.24M.

The insider with the most stakes in DOW is DOW INC. , 10 percent owner at the company. Additionally, DOW stock is highly held by Executive Vice President FREIWALD GREGORY M and Executive Vice President Haller Heinz among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 0.2% percent of Dow Inc.'s stock. Within the last six months, there have been 0 transaction(s) in which DOW insiders have sold stock, totaling 0 shares. Insiders that have sold shares include UNGERLEIDER HOWARD I, EDMONDS RONALD C, and DOW INC..

There have been 3 transaction(s) during the past 6-months in which Dow Inc. insiders have bought stock, totalling 24764 shares

Around 171.79K Dow Inc. shares are held by insiders, which represents about 0.2% of DOW stock.

DOW 10 percent owner, DOW INC. holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. DOW shares owned by DOW total nearly 21 million.

CALIFORNIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM is the largest institutional owner in DOW which holds 1.63 million shares worth $94.41M or 0.23% of the total DOW shares outstanding followed by STATE BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION OF FLORIDA RETIREMENT SYSTEM with ownership of 845.55 thousand shares representing 0.12% of the DOW ownership. PZENA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC is the third largest stakeholder with 18.52 million shares or 2.63% of the ownership worth more than $1.07B.

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

Number of DOW shares short is 15.10M. 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, 700.09M shares of DOW 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, DOW has 698.47M 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 DOW is 1.76.