HIW 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 HIW shares is 479, representing 108.34% of the company's common stock.

COHEN & STEERS, INC., in the last quarter, reduced its stake in HIW by -0.45% restricting it's holding to 16.81 million shares of worth nearly $440.02M. STATE STREET CORP also lessened -3.54% of the HIW shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 7.3 million shares of worth $191.07M. AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC also shunned HIW shares holding by -29.49% last quarter which brought its holding to 1.01 million shares worth $26.31M.

As per its latest 13F filing, JANUS HENDERSON GROUP PLC increased its stake in HIW by 356.27% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 219.56 thousand shares having worth more than $5.75M. GREAT WEST LIFE ASSURANCE CO /CAN/ also added 5.93% more shares of HIW to its portfolio, raising its holding to 233.86 thousand shares of worth $6.13M. FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP also increased its HIW shares holding by 3.88% which brought its holding to 200.86 thousand shares worth $5.26M.

The insider with the most stakes in HIW is FRITSCH EDWARD J , President & CEO at the company. Additionally, HIW stock is highly held by Klinck Theodore J and SVP, CFO STEVENS TERRY L among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 1.7% percent of Highwoods Properties, Inc.'s stock. Within the last six months, there have been 1 transaction(s) in which HIW insiders have sold stock, totaling 6.17K shares. Insiders that have sold shares include HARTZELL DAVID JOHN, GADIS DAVID L, and MULHERN MARK F.

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

Around 28.73K Highwoods Properties, Inc. shares are held by insiders, which represents about 1.7% of HIW stock.

HIW President & CEO, FRITSCH EDWARD J holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. HIW shares owned by FRITSCH total nearly 426.56 thousand.

JANUS HENDERSON GROUP PLC is the largest institutional owner in HIW which holds 219.56 thousand shares worth $5.75M or 0.21% of the total HIW shares outstanding followed by GREAT WEST LIFE ASSURANCE CO /CAN/ with ownership of 233.86 thousand shares representing 0.22% of the HIW ownership. COHEN & STEERS, INC. is the third largest stakeholder with 16.81 million shares or 15.89% of the ownership worth more than $440.02M.

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

Number of HIW shares short is 5.22M. 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, 106.02M shares of HIW 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, HIW has 104.12M 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 HIW is 5.34.