NVAX 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 NVAX shares is 321, representing 60.08% of the company's common stock.

VANGUARD GROUP INC, in the last quarter, reduced its stake in NVAX by -7.33% restricting it's holding to 13.49 million shares of worth nearly $64.50M. MORGAN STANLEY also lessened -74.17% of the NVAX shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 1.87 million shares of worth $8.94M. CITIGROUP INC also shunned NVAX shares holding by -5.65% last quarter which brought its holding to 1.03 million shares worth $4.94M.

As per its latest 13F filing, GTS SECURITIES LLC increased its stake in NVAX by 18.5% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 212 thousand shares having worth more than $1.01M. IMC-CHICAGO, LLC also added 32.28% more shares of NVAX to its portfolio, raising its holding to 68.32 thousand shares of worth $326.58K. JEFFERIES FINANCIAL GROUP INC. also increased its NVAX shares holding by 15.99% which brought its holding to 65.3 thousand shares worth $312.13K.

The insider with the most stakes in NVAX is Dubovsky Filip , President, R&D at the company. Additionally, NVAX stock is highly held by director YOUNG JAMES F and director King Rachel K. among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 4.41% percent of Novavax, Inc.'s stock. Within the last six months, there have been 3 transaction(s) in which NVAX insiders have sold stock, totaling 14.15K shares. Insiders that have sold shares include YOUNG JAMES F, KING RACHEL K., and DUBOVSKY FILIP.

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

Around 123.69K Novavax, Inc. shares are held by insiders, which represents about 4.41% of NVAX stock.

NVAX President, R&D, Dubovsky Filip holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. NVAX shares owned by Dubovsky total nearly 66.61 thousand.

GTS SECURITIES LLC is the largest institutional owner in NVAX which holds 212 thousand shares worth $1.01M or 0.15% of the total NVAX shares outstanding followed by IMC-CHICAGO, LLC with ownership of 68.32 thousand shares representing 0.07% of the NVAX ownership. JEFFERIES FINANCIAL GROUP INC. is the third largest stakeholder with 65.3 thousand shares or 0.06% of the ownership worth more than $312.13K.

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

Number of NVAX shares short is 36.92M. 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, 160.18M shares of NVAX 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, NVAX has 143.38M 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 NVAX is 10.86.