Ownership research, combined with past performance data can help provide a good understanding of opportunities in a stock
If you want to know who really controls Patrimonium Urban Opportunity AG (BRN:PATRI), then you'll have to look at the makeup of its share registry. We can see that individual insiders own the lion's share in the company with 48% ownership. That is, the group stands to benefit the most if the stock rises (or lose the most if there is a downturn).
So it follows, every decision made by insiders of Patrimonium Urban Opportunity regarding the company's future would be crucial to them.
In the chart below, we zoom in on the different ownership groups of Patrimonium Urban Opportunity.
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Institutional investors often avoid companies that are too small, too illiquid or too risky for their tastes. But it's unusual to see larger companies without any institutional investors.
There are many reasons why a company might not have any institutions on the share registry. It may be hard for institutions to buy large amounts of shares, if liquidity (the amount of shares traded each day) is low. If the company has not needed to raise capital, institutions might lack the opportunity to build a position. Alternatively, there might be something about the company that has kept institutional investors away. Patrimonium Urban Opportunity might not have the sort of past performance institutions are looking for, or perhaps they simply have not studied the business closely.
Patrimonium Urban Opportunity is not owned by hedge funds. Looking at our data, we can see that the largest shareholder is Martin Pestalozzi with 36% of shares outstanding. Meanwhile, the second and third largest shareholders, hold 17% and 5.4%, of the shares outstanding, respectively.
To make our study more interesting, we found that the top 2 shareholders have a majority ownership in the company, meaning that they are powerful enough to influence the decisions of the company.
Researching institutional ownership is a good way to gauge and filter a stock's expected performance. The same can be achieved by studying analyst sentiments. Our information suggests that there isn't any analyst coverage of the stock, so it is probably little known.