ZTS 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 ZTS shares is 2431, representing 95.73% of the company's common stock.

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE CO, in the last quarter, reduced its stake in ZTS by -1.18% restricting it's holding to 16.15 million shares of worth nearly $2.73B. BLAIR WILLIAM & CO/IL also lessened -1.23% of the ZTS shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 2.43 million shares of worth $411.69M. PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC also shunned ZTS shares holding by -3.77% last quarter which brought its holding to 1.9 million shares worth $321.75M.

As per its latest 13F filing, BLACKROCK INC. increased its stake in ZTS by 0.65% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 36.73 million shares having worth more than $6.22B. STATE STREET CORP also added 1.28% more shares of ZTS to its portfolio, raising its holding to 19.57 million shares of worth $3.31B. DZ BANK AG DEUTSCHE ZENTRAL GENOSSENSCHAFTS BANK, FRANKFURT AM MAIN also increased its ZTS shares holding by 18.05% which brought its holding to 2.71 million shares worth $458.79M.

The insider with the most stakes in ZTS is Alaix Juan Ramon , director at the company. Additionally, ZTS stock is highly held by Chief Executive Officer PECK KRISTIN C and Executive Vice President David Glenn among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 0.2% percent of Zoetis Inc.'s stock. Within the last six months, there have been 1 transaction(s) in which ZTS insiders have sold stock, totaling 3.48K shares. Insiders that have sold shares include POLZER ROBERT J, LAGANO ROXANNE, and REED WILLIE M.

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

Around 3.25K Zoetis Inc. shares are held by insiders, which represents about 0.2% of ZTS stock.

ZTS director, Alaix Juan Ramon holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. ZTS shares owned by Alaix total nearly 214.31 thousand.

BLACKROCK INC. is the largest institutional owner in ZTS which holds 36.73 million shares worth $6.22B or 7.96% of the total ZTS shares outstanding followed by STATE STREET CORP with ownership of 19.57 million shares representing 4.24% of the ZTS ownership. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE CO is the third largest stakeholder with 16.15 million shares or 3.53% of the ownership worth more than $2.73B.

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

Number of ZTS shares short is 4.32M. 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, 451.16M shares of ZTS 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, ZTS has 450.41M 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 ZTS is 2.45.