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Shareholding statistics — why should you as an investor care?
By Theory of Constraints  •  August 30, 2020
As shareholders, we would have seen this section on “Shareholding statistics” or “Unitholding statistics” in the final pages of any company’s annual report. Generally it shows the number of shareholders, the breakdown of their size of shareholdings and sometimes additional information on location breakdown of shareholders, percentage of publicly / privately-held shares, number of treasury shares etc. What I am more interested in is the subsection on Substantial Shareholders; or major shareholders who have controlling interest over the way the company is run or making of major decisions. This is further broken down into Direct and Deemed interests for clarity. Large shareholders usually form a very important element of the companies’ corporate governance system. When it comes to major corporate decisions, large shareholders also display their importance and influence in approving or blocking them. As a minority shareholder, you would be interested to follow up on positive/negative news concerning substantial shareholders which may otherwise or subsequently affect the owned-company in question....
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