Published on 17 Jun 2022 on Simply Wall St. via Yahoo Finance
A look at the shareholders of Whitbread plc (LON:WTB) can tell us which group is most powerful. Large companies usually have institutions as shareholders, and we usually see insiders owning shares in smaller companies. Companies that used to be publicly owned tend to have lower insider ownership.
Whitbread is a pretty big company. It has a market capitalization of UK£5.2b. Normally institutions would own a significant portion of a company this size. Taking a look at our data on the ownership groups (below), it seems that institutional investors have bought into the company. Let's take a closer look to see what the different types of shareholders can tell us about Whitbread.
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