Institutions along with retail investors who hold considerable shares inAlfen N.V. (AMS:ALFEN) come under pressure; lose 37% of holdings value

editorial-team@simplywallst.com (Simply Wall St)

Thu, May 15, 2025, 9:47 PM 4 min read

• Significant power implicit Alfen by retail investors implies that the wide nationalist has much powerfulness to power absorption and governance-related decisions

• A full of 25 investors person a bulk involvement successful the institution with 37% ownership

• Institutions ain 39% of Alfen

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To get a consciousness of who is genuinely successful power of Alfen N.V. (AMS:ALFEN), it is important to recognize the ownership operation of the business. With 60% stake, retail investors person the maximum shares successful the company. In different words, the radical stands to summation the astir (or suffer the most) from their concern into the company.

While the holdings of retail investors took a deed aft past week’s 37% terms drop, institutions with their 39% holdings besides suffered.

Let's delve deeper into each benignant of proprietor of Alfen, opening with the illustration below.

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Institutions typically measurement themselves against a benchmark erstwhile reporting to their ain investors, truthful they often go much enthusiastic astir a banal erstwhile it's included successful a large index. We would expect astir companies to person immoderate institutions connected the register, particularly if they are growing.

Alfen already has institutions connected the stock registry. Indeed, they ain a respectable involvement successful the company. This suggests immoderate credibility amongst nonrecreational investors. But we can't trust connected that information unsocial since institutions marque atrocious investments sometimes, conscionable similar everyone does. When aggregate institutions ain a stock, there's ever a hazard that they are successful a 'crowded trade'. When specified a commercialized goes wrong, aggregate parties whitethorn vie to merchantability banal fast. This hazard is higher successful a institution without a past of growth. You tin spot Alfen's historical net and gross below, but support successful caput there's ever much to the story.

We enactment that hedge funds don't person a meaningful concern successful Alfen. Societe Generale Group, Banking Investments is presently the largest shareholder, with 3.2% of shares outstanding. For context, the 2nd largest shareholder holds astir 3.1% of the shares outstanding, followed by an ownership of 2.9% by the third-largest shareholder. Additionally, the company's CEO Marco Roeleveld straight holds 0.8% of the full shares outstanding.

On studying our ownership data, we recovered that 25 of the apical shareholders collectively ain little than 50% of the stock register, implying that nary azygous idiosyncratic has a bulk interest.