WMT 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 WMT shares is 4160, representing 35.56% of the company's common stock.

RAYMOND JAMES FINANCIAL SERVICES ADVISORS, INC., in the last quarter, reduced its stake in WMT by -1.24% restricting it's holding to 2.55 million shares of worth nearly $402.34M. BLACKROCK INC. also lessened -2.5% of the WMT shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 97.25 million shares of worth $15.33B. STATE STREET CORP also shunned WMT shares holding by -5.71% last quarter which brought its holding to 60.57 million shares worth $9.59B.

As per its latest 13F filing, BESSEMER GROUP INC increased its stake in WMT by 195.64% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 7.58 million shares having worth more than $455.80M. NATIONAL PENSION SERVICE also added 205.19% more shares of WMT to its portfolio, raising its holding to 7.43 million shares of worth $446.89M. ENSIGN PEAK ADVISORS, INC also increased its WMT shares holding by 186.9% which brought its holding to 7.38 million shares worth $444.33M.

The insider with the most stakes in WMT is WALTON ALICE L , 10 percent owner at the company. Additionally, WMT stock is highly held by 10 percent owner WALTON JIM C and 10 percent owner WALTON S ROBSON among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 46.38% percent of Walmart Inc.'s stock. Within the last six months, there have been 48 transaction(s) in which WMT insiders have sold stock, totaling 27.46M shares. Insiders that have sold shares include BARTLETT DANIEL J, MCMILLON C DOUGLAS, and FURNER JOHN R..

There have been 1 transaction(s) during the past 6-months in which Walmart Inc. insiders have bought stock, totalling 5446 shares

Around 15.99B Walmart Inc. shares are held by insiders, which represents about 46.38% of WMT stock.

WMT 10 percent owner, WALTON ALICE L holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. WMT shares owned by WALTON total nearly 603.99 million.

BESSEMER GROUP INC is the largest institutional owner in WMT which holds 7.58 million shares worth $455.80M or 0.09% of the total WMT shares outstanding followed by NATIONAL PENSION SERVICE with ownership of 7.43 million shares representing 0.09% of the WMT ownership. ENSIGN PEAK ADVISORS, INC is the third largest stakeholder with 7.38 million shares or 0.09% of the ownership worth more than $444.33M.

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

Number of WMT shares short is 31.70M. 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, 8.03B shares of WMT 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, WMT has 4.36B 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 WMT is 2.59.