ENSG 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 ENSG shares is 616, representing 96.48% of the company's common stock.

OPPENHEIMER ASSET MANAGEMENT INC., in the last quarter, reduced its stake in ENSG by -19.24% restricting it's holding to 69.31 thousand shares of worth nearly $8.62M. ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN L.P. also lessened -1.66% of the ENSG shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 67.15 thousand shares of worth $8.35M. PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ also shunned ENSG shares holding by -0.16% last quarter which brought its holding to 870.02 thousand shares worth $108.25M.

As per its latest 13F filing, VANGUARD GROUP INC increased its stake in ENSG by 0.6% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 6.66 million shares having worth more than $828.83M. BRITISH COLUMBIA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT CORP also added 11.01% more shares of ENSG to its portfolio, raising its holding to 65.54 thousand shares of worth $8.15M. COPELAND CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC also increased its ENSG shares holding by 2.12% which brought its holding to 1.03 million shares worth $128.31M.

The insider with the most stakes in ENSG is Snapper Suzanne D. , CFO at the company. Additionally, ENSG stock is highly held by Executive Chairman Christensen Christopher R. and CIO, EVP and Secretary Keetch Chad among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 3.3% percent of The Ensign Group, Inc.'s stock. Within the last six months, there have been 9 transaction(s) in which ENSG insiders have sold stock, totaling 19.32K shares. Insiders that have sold shares include SMITH BARRY M, SHAW DAREN, and BLOUIN ANN SCOTT.

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

Around 339.74K The Ensign Group, Inc. shares are held by insiders, which represents about 3.3% of ENSG stock.

ENSG CFO, Snapper Suzanne D. holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. ENSG shares owned by Snapper total nearly 248.88 thousand.

VANGUARD GROUP INC is the largest institutional owner in ENSG which holds 6.66 million shares worth $828.83M or 11.88% of the total ENSG shares outstanding followed by OPPENHEIMER ASSET MANAGEMENT INC. with ownership of 69.31 thousand shares representing 0.12% of the ENSG ownership. ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN L.P. is the third largest stakeholder with 67.15 thousand shares or 0.12% of the ownership worth more than $8.35M.

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

Number of ENSG shares short is 2.55M. 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, 57.30M shares of ENSG 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, ENSG has 54.86M 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 ENSG is 8.24.