Institutional shareholder changes
Identifying and tracking your top institutional holders and their share ownership changes enables you to implement proactive, targeted strategies for connecting with investors with significant voting power.
Shareholder intelligence and stock surveillance for investor relations and engagement
Knowledge of the ebbs and flows of your shareholder base is a critical driver of both your corporate strategy and investor relations blueprints. From understanding trends related to equity purchases and sales, to potential shareholder activism and the factors that may be driving an activist’s pursuit for change, Georgeson’s insights can illuminate the unknown.
Georgeson Shareholder Intelligence compiles real-time trading data based on market intelligence and shareholder trends, share movements, potential shareholder activist risks, and more. Dedicated analysts review an extensive and complex range of resources and distill it into succinct, actionable reports. Your board and executives will receive reliable reporting and can schedule regular calls to discuss insights with our team.
Actionable investor intelligence – the knowledge to navigate your investor landscape
Activism preparedness
Enhanced vote projections, investor wolfpack analysis, and board of directors vulnerability assessments can help prepare your company for likely activist scenarios. Detecting early signs of activist interest can provide an opportunity to mitigate activism threats.
Board-level insights
Boards need access to relevant, up-to-date information to make informed decisions and prepare for annual meetings. Tailored investor and proxy advisor profiles provide insight into the voting decision making process, engagement priorities, historical voting tendencies, and trading trends that may forecast activist accumulations, directors will have the data they need at their fingertips.
Investor targeting
Tailored investor data enables tailored communication strategies. With this, your company can proactively reach out to shareholders, or prospective shareholders, with real-time information, laying the groundwork for building and maintaining positive relationships.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is stock surveillance?
Relying on publicly available 13F and 13G filings means relying on stale institutional holdings data. At its core, stock surveillance attempts to gain intelligence on real-time trading activity and provide current institutional ownership data.
Stock surveillance helps executives, board members and IR professionals understand the ebbs and flows of their shareholders. It provides context into which investors are buying and selling the stock, and the subsequent reaction is on the issuer’s stock price.
It is used to help IR professionals understand their shareholders and to help with investor outreach planning/targeting. Stock surveillance is also used as a means of shareholder activism preparedness. Surveillance analysts can see activist investor activity before it becomes public, whether it is an equity position or economic exposure via derivatives. Stock surveillance is the first line of defense in a proxy fight.
How do we identify and provide insights?
Georgeson provides the client company all necessary instructions and the client grants Georgeson access to its DTC website Security Position Reports (SPR). Georgeson receives weekly SPRs with DTC detail, enabling us to understand how many shares are held in a particular custodial bank on a given date.
Our team leverages its database of custodial bank relationships to determine the inflows and outflows at each custodial bank on a given day. Georgeson also uses NOBO (Non-Objecting Beneficial Owner) data from custodial banks and other intermediaries as needed, as well as data from FactSet, Morningstar, and numerous other sources.
Can I customize the reporting/offering to tailor my needs?
While we always present “best practices,” the reporting Georgeson provides can be customized to suit your company’s needs. You will receive analysis to sort through the data and identify actionable insights.
Why choose Georgeson Shareholder Intelligence stock surveillance services?
We aim to consult with our clients and help them understand the ebbs and flows of their shareholder bases, rather than leave them up for interpretation. Other stock surveillance firms disseminate insights without proper guidance on how clients should use the materials. Georgeson’s service offering is clear, concise, coherent and relevant.
When pairing Georgeson’s stock surveillance with its proxy solicitation services, companies receivebetter identification of positions. As an example, most hedge funds and large investors file their March 31st positions on, or around, May 15th. During a proxy solicitation, we would not know the updated positions unless we had insights into the capital flows that occurred from the beginning of the quarter. The surveillance uncovers the non-public positions and the your proxy team can accurately identify votes and project where a vote may land based on more precise positions.
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