GOOGL 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 GOOGL shares is 5909, representing 80.68% of the company's common stock.

NORDEA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AB, in the last quarter, reduced its stake in GOOGL by -4.46% restricting it's holding to 14.5 million shares of worth nearly $2.18B. ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN L.P. also lessened -2.35% of the GOOGL shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 10.26 million shares of worth $1.55B. FLOSSBACH VON STORCH AG also shunned GOOGL shares holding by -9.63% last quarter which brought its holding to 10.21 million shares worth $1.54B.

As per its latest 13F filing, BARCLAYS PLC increased its stake in GOOGL by 6.74% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 31.23 million shares having worth more than $4.71B. VANGUARD GROUP INC also added 0.82% more shares of GOOGL to its portfolio, raising its holding to 497.87 million shares of worth $75.14B. BLACKROCK INC. also increased its GOOGL shares holding by 0.22% which brought its holding to 415.9 million shares worth $62.77B.

The insider with the most stakes in GOOGL is Alphabet Inc. , 10 percent owner at the company. Additionally, GOOGL stock is highly held by Chief Executive Officer Pichai Sundar and Senior Vice President RAGHAVAN PRABHAKAR among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 0.25% percent of Alphabet Inc.'s stock. Within the last six months, there have been 37 transaction(s) in which GOOGL insiders have sold stock, totaling 146.64K shares. Insiders that have sold shares include O'TOOLE AMIE THUENER, HENNESSY JOHN L, and ARNOLD FRANCES.

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

Around 18.84M Alphabet Inc. shares are held by insiders, which represents about 0.25% of GOOGL stock.

GOOGL 10 percent owner, Alphabet Inc. holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. GOOGL shares owned by Alphabet total nearly 15.63 million.

NORDEA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AB is the largest institutional owner in GOOGL which holds 14.5 million shares worth $2.18B or 0.12% of the total GOOGL shares outstanding followed by ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN L.P. with ownership of 10.26 million shares representing 0.08% of the GOOGL ownership. FLOSSBACH VON STORCH AG is the third largest stakeholder with 10.21 million shares or 0.08% of the ownership worth more than $1.54B.

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

Number of GOOGL shares short is 65.56M. 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, 5.84B shares of GOOGL 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, GOOGL has 10.92B 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 GOOGL is 2.14.