VECO 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 VECO shares is 353, representing 108.45% of the company's common stock.

NEW YORK STATE TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM, in the last quarter, reduced its stake in VECO by -4.08% restricting it's holding to 103.45 thousand shares of worth nearly $3.64M. HOSKING PARTNERS LLP also lessened -0.35% of the VECO shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 102.97 thousand shares of worth $3.62M. UBS GROUP AG also shunned VECO shares holding by -15.11% last quarter which brought its holding to 73.71 thousand shares worth $2.59M.

As per its latest 13F filing, BLUE GROTTO CAPITAL, LLC increased its stake in VECO by 28.73% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 476.1 thousand shares having worth more than $16.74M. STATE OF WISCONSIN INVESTMENT BOARD also added 2.6% more shares of VECO to its portfolio, raising its holding to 97.51 thousand shares of worth $3.43M. RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC also increased its VECO shares holding by 100% which brought its holding to 89.71 thousand shares worth $3.16M.

The insider with the most stakes in VECO is Miller William John , CEO at the company. Additionally, VECO stock is highly held by Chairman & CEO PEELER JOHN R and EVP & CFO Maheshwari Shubham among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 2.41% percent of Veeco Instruments Inc.'s stock. Within the last six months, there have been 6 transaction(s) in which VECO insiders have sold stock, totaling 15K shares. Insiders that have sold shares include KIERNAN JOHN P, ST DENNIS THOMAS, and MILLER WILLIAM JOHN.

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

Around 488.35K Veeco Instruments Inc. shares are held by insiders, which represents about 2.41% of VECO stock.

VECO CEO, Miller William John holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. VECO shares owned by Miller total nearly 515.09 thousand.

BLUE GROTTO CAPITAL, LLC is the largest institutional owner in VECO which holds 476.1 thousand shares worth $16.74M or 0.85% of the total VECO shares outstanding followed by NEW YORK STATE TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM with ownership of 103.45 thousand shares representing 0.19% of the VECO ownership. HOSKING PARTNERS LLP is the third largest stakeholder with 102.97 thousand shares or 0.19% of the ownership worth more than $3.62M.

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

Number of VECO shares short is 5.35M. 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, 56.78M shares of VECO 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, VECO has 55.40M 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 VECO is 9.06.