Published on 27 Jun 2022 on Simply Wall St. via Yahoo Finance
The big shareholder groups in Ashtead Group plc (LON:AHT) have power over the company. Institutions will often hold stock in bigger companies, and we expect to see insiders owning a noticeable percentage of the smaller ones. We also tend to see lower insider ownership in companies that were previously publicly owned.
Ashtead Group is a pretty big company. It has a market capitalization of UK£16b. Normally institutions would own a significant portion of a company this size. In the chart below, we can see 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 Ashtead Group.
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