Key Insights
- Significantly high institutional ownership implies Pan American Silver’s stock price is sensitive to their trading actions
- The top 25 shareholders own 41% of the company
- Analyst forecasts along with ownership data serve to give a strong idea about prospects for a business
Every investor in Pan American Silver Corp. (TSE:PAAS) should be aware of the most powerful shareholder groups. And the group that holds the biggest piece of the pie are institutions with 59% ownership. In other words, the group stands to gain the most (or lose the most) from their investment into the company.
As a result, institutional investors endured the highest losses last week after market cap fell by CA$343m. This set of investors may especially be concerned about the current loss, which adds to a one-year loss of 18% for shareholders. Institutions or “liquidity providers” control large sums of money and therefore, these types of…
