FDS 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 FDS shares is 1162, representing 96.34% of the company's common stock.

NORTHERN TRUST CORP, in the last quarter, reduced its stake in FDS by -4.24% restricting it's holding to 365.38 thousand shares of worth nearly $166.02M. BOSTON TRUST WALDEN CORP also lessened -4.97% of the FDS shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 273.43 thousand shares of worth $124.24M. BAMCO INC /NY/ also shunned FDS shares holding by -1.45% last quarter which brought its holding to 2.74 million shares worth $1.24B.

As per its latest 13F filing, AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL INC increased its stake in FDS by 0.25% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 133.84 thousand shares having worth more than $60.79M. BNP PARIBAS ARBITRAGE, SNC also added 198.18% more shares of FDS to its portfolio, raising its holding to 51.39 thousand shares of worth $23.35M. MORGAN STANLEY also increased its FDS shares holding by 1.11% which brought its holding to 1.41 million shares worth $639.41M.

The insider with the most stakes in FDS is Ellis Christopher R , EVP, Initiatives & P'ships at the company. Additionally, FDS stock is highly held by Chief Executive Officer Snow Frederick Philip and director ABRAMS ROBIN ANN among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 0.22% percent of FactSet Research Systems Inc.'s stock. Within the last six months, there have been 12 transaction(s) in which FDS insiders have sold stock, totaling 39.52K shares. Insiders that have sold shares include SNOW FREDERICK PHILIP, ROBIE ROBERT J., and COSTIGAN JOHN.

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

Around 121.16K FactSet Research Systems Inc. shares are held by insiders, which represents about 0.22% of FDS stock.

FDS EVP, Initiatives & P'ships, Ellis Christopher R holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. FDS shares owned by Ellis total nearly 23.52 thousand.

AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL INC is the largest institutional owner in FDS which holds 133.84 thousand shares worth $60.79M or 0.35% of the total FDS shares outstanding followed by BNP PARIBAS ARBITRAGE, SNC with ownership of 51.39 thousand shares representing 0.13% of the FDS ownership. MORGAN STANLEY is the third largest stakeholder with 1.41 million shares or 3.69% of the ownership worth more than $639.41M.

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

Number of FDS shares short is 2.34M. 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, 38.03M shares of FDS 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, FDS has 37.87M 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 FDS is 8.95.