I have a simple question about the “institutional transactions” metric/number on Finviz’s screener tool, if someone could assist: What specific number/metric does this percentage refer to? For example, let’s use $STEM. Institutional ownership is at 11% and institutional transactions is at -52.31%. I understand that institutions own 11% of the shares. Does the institutional transactions number of -52.31% reflect institutions selling 52.31% of their shares (or total shares?) over a set period of time? I.e., “52.31% decrease in shares owned over the last week”, or “over the last 24 hours”, etc? I can’t help but feel like I misunderstand the metric for that one.
Related question: Any idea how often these values are updated? Of course some of the numbers are essentially real-time, but I’d imagine this value (inst. own./trans.) requires some reporting/tabulating.
For example, just 2 weeks ago, $STEM had 75.2% institutional ownership (with 10% inst. transactions), and it has dropped significantly (down to 11% ownership/-52.31% transactions). Depending on how often this metric is updated, I’m wondering if this might mean investors knew it was going to drop over the past few weeks, or indicate someone knows something negative is about to happen with the company.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Submitted May 25, 2021 at 08:11PM by OhOkYeahSureGreat https://ift.tt/3fF5rBm
