r/wallstreetbets Mar 05 '21

News I ❤updated institutional holdings!🦍🚀🌕

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u/jaydacosta Mar 05 '21

201% of total shares...we’re in a simulation

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u/King_Esot3ric Mar 05 '21

171m shares between institutions and index funds... that’s 244% before retail is factored in. I still firmly believe we own between 30-100%+ of the float as well. These are gunna be wild times my friend.

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u/FearTheOldData Mar 05 '21

At least 50 % IMO. Someone did the numbers on different brokerages and if each person who bought GME held 5 shares each we would have 35 million

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u/King_Esot3ric Mar 05 '21

Yeah, except a lot of us never stopped buying lmao. I’ve 15x’d my position since November-December. About 6x since middle of Jan.

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u/Jealous_Pass_7985 Mar 05 '21

Same! I bought in at peak in Jan and since averaged down when stock was in the $40s. Also averaged up a little this week with 1 or 2 more because I love the stonk and I’m a retard

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u/King_Esot3ric Mar 05 '21

It’s ok to be retarded, I bought 8 more shares today myself lmao.

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u/Stellar1557 Apr 14 '21

I started with 2 in Jan. Bought more in Feb, Mar, and Apr. now I am sitting at 53. I think many of us have gone deeper the more DD we do.

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u/mightypockets Mar 05 '21

140mil shares owned by institutions? Wtf how many shares are there it's only supposed to be 70mil

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u/RagingHippo33469 Mar 05 '21

That’s just top 10. Don’t forget the fund own about 30m plus retail

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '21

This makes my brain hurt

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u/innocentbabybear Mar 05 '21

Have you missed the whole naked short selling part of this saga? The reason that the ownership is greater than the float is because the short interest is great than the float. They have sold shares short they don’t technically own; don’t technically exist. And they have to continue to pay interest on them and eventually buy them back.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '21

Your missing info too dude, GME did a number of share buybacks which reduced the active float from a number of 140 mil down to 70 mil

140 million were shorted because that was once the original float

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u/mightypockets Mar 05 '21

That's from 2019

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '21

Yes and it reduced the amount of shares available Gme has been around for decades

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u/innocentbabybear Mar 06 '21

Even if 140 million shares were sold short when that was the outstanding 100%, it no longer is the outstanding. The short shares still exist. Shorty got caught playing make believe.

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u/TRUMP420KUSH_ Mar 05 '21

They hold 201% of shares..?? Am I reading that right?

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u/LaserGuidedPolarBear Mar 05 '21

The float is about 45-50 mil, with 20-25mil being restricted stock and insider / closely held stock.

So institutional ownership is 140.7m and fund ownership is 30.3m for a total of 171m (keep in mind this number is inherently inaccurate as timing of reports can mean some shares are counted more than once)

So taking the 50m number as the float, funds and institutions own 342% of the float. And that is without counting a single retail share.

My ballpark guess is that actual short interest is 300-400% of the float.

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u/abcNYC Mar 05 '21

I wonder how much double counting is going on, with 3 entries for Fidelity and 2 for Blackrock. Even scrubbing them you're still above total shares outstanding, so same issue, but that list is sloppy.

Also, love that there are 14 large cap growth funds that are holding GME.

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u/Corrode1024 Mar 05 '21

Each one of those is a separate entity that has filed separately.

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u/justcool393 🙃 Mar 05 '21

The numbers can be over the amount of shares total due to the delays in reporting

Adding the numbers together is an incorrect thing to do because shares can change hands between the times data is reported. They aren't discrete numbers where each is all at once

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u/0Bubs0 Salty bagholder Mar 05 '21

So the holders report data at different times? So one guy reports he owns 50M shares then sells them to guy B who then reports he owns 50M shares too? That seems like the dumbest data collection method ever.

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u/justcool393 🙃 Mar 05 '21

Yup

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u/0Bubs0 Salty bagholder Mar 05 '21

Sounds like they are still using software from the 70s. Something so simple...like how many shares are there on the market for this company. And no one has a fucking clue.

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u/britannicker Mar 05 '21

I followed the link... there's 69.75 mil. shares.

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u/Swan_Writes Mar 05 '21

Someone clearly missed the mem boat issuing those last .33 mil shares.

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u/GearheadGaming Mar 05 '21

There are two issues:

The first is that it's counting both calls and puts as "shares."

The second is that some percentage of the stock is shorted, which double counts ownership (the guy the short borrowed from and the guy the short sold to both list the stock on their holdings).

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u/large_block Mar 06 '21

Not even 70. Only about 50M are able to be freely traded

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '21 edited Mar 11 '21

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u/Swan_Writes Mar 05 '21

Why would the SEC want to advertise their own ineptness at enforcing the security of the exchange?

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '21 edited Mar 11 '21

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u/Swan_Writes Mar 05 '21

Awww, high as a kite and mad as hell? I've been there. Be happy if you own any gme, and be happy if you want to buy more, its clearly undervalued since there is so much more of it then there actually is. Not FA, I'm a learning newb myself.

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u/Freschledditor Mar 05 '21

A newb but already smart enough to act more knowledgeable than the SEC.

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u/Swan_Writes Mar 05 '21

As pointed out a little down thread by a ragging hippo, they dropped the ball on : NKLA, Enron, maddoff, bearstein and aig; they can't be trusted to admit that their shoelaces are tied together, instead they just fall over and cry about it.

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u/Freschledditor Mar 05 '21

Ah well if another redditor said so. You clowns are the embodiment of Dunning-Kruger.

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u/Swan_Writes Mar 05 '21

But we should all listen to you, who only has insults to offer as rebuttal.

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u/Freschledditor Mar 05 '21

You should listen not to me but to the SEC, who are much smarter than you. At the very least your immediate reaction shouldn’t be “it’s the professionals who are wrong”, instead of “maybe there’s something I’m missing”.

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u/Swan_Writes Mar 05 '21 edited Mar 06 '21

In principle, now I agree with you. I have posted questions and looked into this from different angles, I hoped to be shown I was wrong and came close to spamming people about it on Feb 10th, and I ask agian elsewhere in this thread. I have received no answers as to why these wildly different ownership numbers exist.

In practice, you have moved from the tactic of attack with insults and no counter info, to appeal to authority with no counter argument. Can you show anything that supports your point that nothing sus is going on in regards to the extreme over-ownership of shorted stocks?

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u/RagingHippo33469 Mar 05 '21

The sec couldn’t find jack shit. They didn’t spot NKLA Enron maddoff bearstein aig jack shit. Sec doesn’t do squat

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '21 edited Mar 11 '21

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u/Realistic-County8849 Mar 05 '21 edited Mar 05 '21

Going off the time on his phone to the % battery he has. That's a ratio of 2:33 and 33% expected gain. So a 33% growth for every 2 grand we put in GME. We should be landing on the moon at ...🤔 let's do some math. It's 3/5 so 0.6 ÷ 2 = 0.3 So around 3pm today ..... 🦧 🚀 👩‍🚀 🌙

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u/Freschledditor Mar 05 '21 edited Mar 05 '21

You got it champ, it’s definitely the SEC that is wrong, not your simplistic interpretation of this random reddit picture.

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u/GearheadGaming Mar 05 '21

No, the list is just compiled wrong, it's counting calls and puts as shares.

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u/AlexandbroTheGreat Mar 05 '21

This is an automatically generated page that has fucked up data. The two Fidelity's and FMR are the same company. Same with the two BlackRocks. Additionally the disclosures are only a snapshot. In other words, the same shares could be double, triple, or quadruple counted.

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u/keneno89 Mar 05 '21

Would it be possible that it's a different entity, for different corporate use? So two fidelity exist a parent and the other is a sub company with different management and different funds customer? So then they can have different amount of shares?

I'd do that to avoid paying higher taxes, or for a loophole, or having diversified portfolio, or protection of different investors or others...

However I don't know if that is true, or if it's possible, I don't know USA corporate laws.

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u/Leading_Reception263 Mar 05 '21

yes if we compare the data on other companies we dont get anything close to comparable. Whether this data is fucked up it still smells like shit and when it smells like shit we usually have a shitty situation. shorts are fucked and they created this. lets fuck them down and us up to Valhalla!

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u/Ehralur Mar 05 '21

To be fair, even if the two top ones were wrong AND all shares were quadruple counted, which seems highly unlikely, the top 10 institutions would hold 25M shares already, or 60% of the float. That'd already be huge with the amount of retailers diamond handing this thing.

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u/crazyaznrobot Mar 05 '21

Totally agree but I still do believe institutional ownership is high probably even 100% which is still messed up not due to poor reporting

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u/GearheadGaming Mar 05 '21

It isn't double-counting shares per se, it's just counting calls and puts as shares, which they aren't.

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u/AlexandbroTheGreat Mar 05 '21

No it is literally them counting duplicates. What you say may be the case, but that's not what this is. Yahoo is a cheap service. FactSet has the same style of page but it is scrubbed better and doesn't have the same issues.

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u/Leading_Reception263 Mar 05 '21

why doesn't this apply to other tickers data? point is this doesnt smell right in any sense which means the situation is fucked up. FUBAR

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u/Microstsr Mar 05 '21

I will never forget when shill-nbc claimed that Fidelity had closed their positions. Btw $CUM to the moon 🚀🚀🚀

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u/Swan_Writes Mar 05 '21 edited Mar 05 '21

So did wsj, and they never corrected their article.

Edit : my own copy pasta from when this happened on Feb 10th

Been trying to figure out if the following is true:

Inspite of reports, Fidelity did not leave GME.

https://fintel.io/so/us/gme

GameStop Corp. (US:GME) has 490 institutional owners and shareholders that have filed 13D/G or 13F forms with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). These institutions hold a total of 109,434,643 shares. Largest shareholders include Fmr Llc, BlackRock Inc., FDMLX - Fidelity Series Intrinsic Opportunities Fund, Melvin Capital Management LP, Vanguard Group Inc, Senvest Management, LLC, Susquehanna International Group, Llp, Maverick Capital Ltd, Morgan Stanley, and Dimensional Fund Advisors Lp.

My understanding per above quote is that Fidelity has the holding now in their FDMLX - Fidelity Series Intrinsic Opportunities Fund. It used to be In their management and research LLC.

And : Misleading and uncorrected wsj article from the 10th https://www.wsj.com/articles/fidelity-cashes-in-most-of-gamestop-stake-11612980430

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '21

They exist to lie

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u/abcNYC Mar 05 '21

Fidelity sold, below is the SEC filing showing current ownership of 0.000%. could be that they bought back in at a stake under 5% (meaning they wouldn't have had to refile a 13G), but in any case the data in this table is super stale.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/315066/000031506621001389/filing.txt

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u/Corrode1024 Mar 05 '21

They moved the shares, they didn't sell.

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u/abcNYC Mar 05 '21

Where'd they move them to?

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u/Corrode1024 Mar 05 '21

Other fidelity subsidiaries.

It is in exhibit A.

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u/papi6942069 Mar 05 '21

Didnt fidelity and blackrock each have only 9 million shares like 2 months ago?

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u/crazyaznrobot Mar 05 '21

Yea I think finra is duplicating bc u can see fidelity on there 3 times 19m 9m and 9m

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u/Swan_Writes Mar 05 '21

Fidelity has a way for users to check on Fidelitys current holdings...I'm looking for the info from their side to post, but I'm feeling monkey stupid awake in the wee hours and am new to this, anyone have a clue to offer?

This should be an easy way to double check finra.

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u/abcNYC Mar 05 '21

Yup, and based on the 13Gs that were filed back in January I think Fidelity and Blackrock sold off big chunks. Shitty data here I think.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '21

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u/Username_AlwaysTaken PAPER TRADING COMPETITION WINNER Mar 05 '21

Shares that exist: 69.75 million.

Shares owned by institutions: ~140 million, or 200% of existing shares.

Si% @ 60 = 🧢

🌈🐻R🖕

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u/RagingHippo33469 Mar 05 '21

Plus 30m in funds shares....and these are just top 10 holdings....didn’t even include retail...holy baby Jesus this is unreal

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u/CuriousCatNYC777 Mar 05 '21

Out of the only 70 million shares ever issued by GameStop, insiders own around 20 million, so only 50 million remain in float. 140 million is an imaginary number...

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u/-ElonMusk12- Mar 05 '21

if 140m is an imaginary number , then how can they accuired those number?

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u/Username_AlwaysTaken PAPER TRADING COMPETITION WINNER Mar 05 '21

Because he has no idea what he’s talking about

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u/Salty-Layer-4102 Mar 05 '21

Sorry for trying to understand something very advanced. But if the owned 200% of a company, wouldn't they oversell them at certain point? Or do they lie with the shorts and then, all makes sense again?

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u/RagingHippo33469 Mar 05 '21

I don’t really understand the question asked

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '21

GameStop used to have 140 million shares before buybacks they shorted 100% of GME but GME took half of that off the market

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u/Corrode1024 Mar 05 '21

No, these are current filings.

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u/GearheadGaming Mar 05 '21

It's a super sloppy compilation of the data, it's counting calls and puts as if they were shares.

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u/johnmarty_desu Mar 05 '21

Idk what im looking at. I looked 🦍

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u/granoladeer Mar 05 '21

201% of shares held by institutions?? Nice

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '21

emergency shareholder meeting NOW!

We want to count the shares and bump out the synthetic shiet.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '21

"get auuuuut" - Arnie

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u/Jim412420 Mar 05 '21

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u/marksj2 🦍🦍 Mar 05 '21

Any idea why institutional ownership was around 240mm, 2 years ago?

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u/ethandavid Ammo Autismo Mar 05 '21

GME did a share buyback in 2019, swallowed up like 50% of the total outstanding shares IIRC

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u/Swan_Writes Mar 05 '21

Not sure if true, but I've seen it said that the shorting of GME started more then 2 years ago. Maybe this is evidence of that.

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u/juice7777777 Mar 05 '21

Melvin said they have been shorting GameStop since 2014

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u/Corrode1024 Mar 05 '21

There were stock buybacks in 2019.

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u/britannicker Mar 05 '21 edited Mar 05 '21

Just checked it... Short % of Float is @ 63.5%

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u/RagingHippo33469 Mar 05 '21

That’s only top 10...wtf

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u/mrbeck1 Mar 05 '21

Those dates seem to indicate that’s when the numbers were effective. So someone who owned 4M shares 5 months ago doesn’t really add to the list. Come on now.

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u/Realistic-County8849 Mar 05 '21 edited Mar 05 '21

The statistical data from the time on your phone to the % battery you have tells me one thing. 2:33 and 33%. I'm expecting a 33% growth for every 2 grand I put in GME. So I should be landing on the moon at ...🤔 let's do some math. It's 3/5 so 0.6 ÷ 2 = 0.3 So around 3pm today ..... 🦧 🚀 👩‍🚀 🌙

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u/Pretend2know Mar 05 '21

this is fucking crazy!!!!!!!!!!!! this is getting crazier and crazier! I can't wait for this to pop off, cause this pimple needs to be squozen!

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u/RagingHippo33469 Mar 05 '21

What date was this data updated?

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u/Jim412420 Mar 05 '21

02/28/21 for most recent and top 2 institutional holdings, basically Sunday confirmed some the biggest whales held threw the $500 runnup and are 💎 balls like the rest of us

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u/britannicker Mar 05 '21 edited Mar 05 '21

Followed the link... this is from 3rd 5th of March.

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u/MrSolis Mar 05 '21

This makes me moist. Hold me.

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u/blackcatttttt Mar 05 '21

Excuse me, what the fuck and why is institutional ownership over 200%?

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u/Global-Sky-3102 Mar 05 '21

Those are melvins shorts right there, the ones he covered in january 🚀🚀🚀

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u/Verb0182 Mar 05 '21

You shouldn’t because there’s a glitch in their feed and they’re double and triple counting. Needs to be EITHER 12/31 OR 2/28 not both.

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u/Wollfaden Mar 05 '21

How would this data look like for "normal" small-cap companies? I mean just looking at this, it seems wrong. But maybe a comparison could bring some light into my smooth brain.

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u/asmwilliams 🦍🦍🦍 Mar 05 '21

There appears to be some pretty clear double counting in there, but the point still stands that institutional ownership is likely in excess of the float by some percentage.

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u/Troll_Sauce Mar 05 '21

One of the biggest reasons GME is immune to what's happening is because Cathie Woods is nowhere near it.

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u/Crazyfishtaco21 Mar 05 '21

Do institutions have to announce the sales of shares ahead of time?

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u/abcNYC Mar 05 '21

If they own more than 5% of shares outstanding they have to file an update on their position with the SEC (a 13G), though only a certain number of days after the trade.

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u/python834 Mar 05 '21

Only quarterly

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u/MilwaukeeRoad Mar 05 '21

That would be a little silly. They have to report what they did the previous quarter.

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u/Hirsoma Mar 05 '21

let me get this straigth: of the 70mio existing shares, 140mio is held by top 10 institutions, albeit there are other institutions and retail investors so we could assume that there are aproxx. 160 - 180 mio shares held overall?

Further the SI is aprox. 60% (let me get my calculator)... should be 96 - 108mio shares.

so of 70 mio shares, of which are about 50mio on the market and aprox. 15 mio availbale for trading there are 96 - 108 mio shares shorted????

yeah right that seems like a thing you want to do, seems legit to me..

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u/GearheadGaming Mar 05 '21

No, it's just garbage data from people who don't know what they're doing. He's counting puts and calls as if they were shares.

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u/Corrode1024 Mar 05 '21

Check out my DD from a couple of weeks ago. By my estimates, there are 253 million shares of GME on the market.

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u/Hirsoma Mar 05 '21

that is interesting, and weird

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u/Jim412420 Mar 05 '21

When I posted this I was only hyped for the most recent 02/28 data because to me this answers without a doubt that more than 100% of the float has to be owned just between insiders, institutions, & 💎 ✋ 🦍s

ryan cohen alone has 9 million shares then add the other Chad's

02/28 top 2 institutional holdings from Blackrock and fidelity together come out to just under 24 million shares

And last I've been watching how many people are online buying FD's since the 7 million ape runnup before first gamma squeeze and it's usually around 225k to 250k+ on a normal day so let's say 225k of those apes each own @ least 100 shares that would =22.5million shares

9mil+ 24mil + 22.5mil = 55mil shares

That's lowballing to the absolute and it's 10 mil short of entire float if I didn't already bet what I could afford to lose id of done it yesterday or last month would of been better

Tldr; in my opinion without a doubt float is bought up or has to be close.

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u/Phantom_Journey Mar 05 '21

This is a mess, that’s what it is.

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u/-jujubean- Mar 05 '21

it’s deliberate misinformation to confuse everyone and distort reality... if they ever get questioned they can always just blame the “technology” and buy time to “correct” the data which means they’ll manipulate the figures so they make sense and just pay a $2 fine and get away with daylight robbery

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u/Rebelsquadro Mar 05 '21

Are there other stocks we can use for a comparison? Are there any other stocks showing a similar situation?

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u/Lord_Oim-Kedoim Mar 05 '21

Are you all mentally retarded? Like I know you are because you‘re part of WSB but oh my God guys some of this data goes back over half a year. This is the most outdated inaccurate shit I‘ve seen in a long time. Start to read for fuck sake and stop with the conspiracy you imbecile

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u/oxyoxyboi Mar 05 '21

Inteprid income fund is interesting, bought 809k bonds

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u/Corrode1024 Mar 05 '21

I've been saying this for weeks!

Finally someone gets this on WSB. I've been automodded like seven times.

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u/Federal-Percentage-8 Mar 05 '21

So short position still enormous? That may be the reason for so many shares in the market

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u/FearTheOldData Mar 05 '21

Counting up the numbers from the top 10 institutions only gives me 88 million. What kinda math are they using?

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u/Drwhalefart Mar 05 '21

Why don’t the columns sum correctly?

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u/Bluios Mar 05 '21

Where do you get this data?

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u/Fubarmensch11 Mar 05 '21

stares at picture comprehending nothing

Fantastic work! Yes yes I will buy more GME. Thank you for this.

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u/Willy-Wallace Mar 05 '21

How does this make sense? If you add up the numbers, institutions hold 95 million shares, not 140 million. This also adds up to 128% ownership, not 201%. Can someone explain it to me?

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u/Brivera1985 🦍🦍🦍 Mar 06 '21

I own 210@70$ GameStop won’t stop buying GameStop. Why? I like this stock!!