Ford is mainly owned by institutional investors, who own around 60% of shares. The largest shareholders in December 2023 were: The Vanguard Group (8.71%) BlackRock (7.20%)
Among these stocks, Ford William Clay Jr owns 15,729,727 shares of Ford Motor Co (F) as of March 24, 2022, with a value of $155 Million and a weighting of 95.22%.
While having a large number of shares outstanding can provide a startup with various benefits such as increased liquidity and access to capital, it can also come with risks such as dilution, shareholder disputes, and takeover threats.
Following are the formulas you can use to calculate the shares outstanding of a firm: Shares outstanding = Floating stock + Restricted shares. Shares outstanding = Shares issued - Shares repurchased. Shares outstanding = Authorised shares - Treasury stock.
Let's look again at our Company XYZ. We know from the previous example that the company has 1,000 authorized shares. If it offered 300 shares in an IPO, gave 150 to the executives, and retained 550 in the treasury, the number of shares outstanding would be 450 shares or 300 float shares + 150 restricted shares.
The number of shares outstanding is listed on a company's balance sheet as "Capital Stock" and is reported on the company's quarterly filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The number of shares outstanding can also be found in the capital section of a company's annual report.
To be fair, it wouldn't be prudent to expect Ford to reach $100 anytime soon, and even Toyota Motors (TM) - which is the most valuable legacy automaker - has a market cap below $300 billion. Another analogy, however, could be the comparison with Tesla (TSLA), which currently has a market cap of around $700 billion.
A transfer agent is a financial services company that manages and keeps track of registered shareholders for companies that issue stock. As a transfer agent, EQ handles the recordkeeping, reporting and communications for hundreds of U.S. corporations and their millions of shareholders around the world.
Transfer Agent. Computershare Trust Company, N.A. serves as Zimmer Biomet's stock transfer agent. Computershare maintains shareholder records, disburses and reinvests dividends, replaces dividend checks, transfers shares for ownership changes, and issues and holds shares on behalf of shareholders in book-entry form.
Outstanding shares refer to the number of stocks that a company has issued. This number represents all the shares that can be bought and sold by the public as well as all the restricted shares that require special permission before being transacted.