PSTG 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 PSTG shares is 881, representing 84.51% of the company's common stock.

ARK INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC, in the last quarter, reduced its stake in PSTG by -9.44% restricting it's holding to 440.76 thousand shares of worth nearly $22.92M. CHAMPLAIN INVESTMENT PARTNERS, LLC also lessened -17.08% of the PSTG shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 11.49 million shares of worth $597.41M. BNP PARIBAS ASSET MANAGEMENT HOLDING S.A. also shunned PSTG shares holding by -15.03% last quarter which brought its holding to 4.94 million shares worth $256.81M.

As per its latest 13F filing, UBS GROUP AG increased its stake in PSTG by 45.08% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 481.77 thousand shares having worth more than $25.05M. RETIREMENT SYSTEMS OF ALABAMA also added 100% more shares of PSTG to its portfolio, raising its holding to 430.83 thousand shares of worth $22.40M. VANGUARD GROUP INC also increased its PSTG shares holding by 1.58% which brought its holding to 31.79 million shares worth $1.65B.

The insider with the most stakes in PSTG is Hatfield David , President at the company. Additionally, PSTG stock is highly held by Chief Financial Officer Krysler P. Kevan and Chief Financial Officer Riitters Timothy among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 5.21% percent of Pure Storage, Inc.'s stock. Within the last six months, there have been 15 transaction(s) in which PSTG insiders have sold stock, totaling 411.21K shares. Insiders that have sold shares include SINGH AJAY, FITZSIMONS DAN, and CHU MONA.

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

Around 4.27M Pure Storage, Inc. shares are held by insiders, which represents about 5.21% of PSTG stock.

PSTG President, Hatfield David holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. PSTG shares owned by Hatfield total nearly 673.47 thousand.

BOWEN HANES & CO INC is the largest institutional owner in PSTG which holds 906.2 thousand shares worth $47.11M or 0.29% of the total PSTG shares outstanding followed by UBS GROUP AG with ownership of 481.77 thousand shares representing 0.15% of the PSTG ownership. ARK INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC is the third largest stakeholder with 440.76 thousand shares or 0.14% of the ownership worth more than $22.92M.

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

Number of PSTG shares short is 9.26M. 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, 326.24M shares of PSTG 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, PSTG has 310.40M 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 PSTG is 3.27.