QS 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 QS shares is 448, representing 31.37% of the company's common stock.

MORGAN STANLEY, in the last quarter, reduced its stake in QS by -53.41% restricting it's holding to 2.99 million shares of worth nearly $18.79M. SUSQUEHANNA INTERNATIONAL GROUP, LLP also lessened -1.22% of the QS shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 2.16 million shares of worth $13.56M. NORTHERN TRUST CORP also shunned QS shares holding by -2.63% last quarter which brought its holding to 1.46 million shares worth $9.21M.

As per its latest 13F filing, VANGUARD GROUP INC increased its stake in QS by 2.2% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 30.48 million shares having worth more than $191.75M. BLACKROCK INC. also added 0.15% more shares of QS to its portfolio, raising its holding to 15.17 million shares of worth $95.43M. GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC also increased its QS shares holding by 3.74% which brought its holding to 5.34 million shares worth $33.62M.

The insider with the most stakes in QS is Saluja Dipender , director at the company. Additionally, QS stock is highly held by director Singh Jagdeep and CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER Holme Timothy among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 17.94% percent of null's stock. Within the last six months, there have been 25 transaction(s) in which QS insiders have sold stock, totaling 1.94M shares. Insiders that have sold shares include HETTRICH KEVIN, SINGH MOHIT, and SINGH JAGDEEP.

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

Around 34.15M null shares are held by insiders, which represents about 17.94% of QS stock.

QS director, Saluja Dipender holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. QS shares owned by Saluja total nearly 13.19 million.

VANGUARD GROUP INC is the largest institutional owner in QS which holds 30.48 million shares worth $191.75M or 6.21% of the total QS shares outstanding followed by BLACKROCK INC. with ownership of 15.17 million shares representing 3.09% of the QS ownership. CAPRICORN INVESTMENT GROUP LLC is the third largest stakeholder with 14.79 million shares or 3.01% of the ownership worth more than $93.06M.

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

Number of QS shares short is 64.53M. 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, 457.81M shares of QS 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, QS has 377.49M 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 QS is 2.94.