Shareholder base

Shareholder identification for listed issuers

Shareholder identification tells a listed issuer who owns its stock and how that changed. Issuers reads 13F, 13D and 13G filings from SEC EDGAR each quarter and shows a sourced ownership snapshot, the top buyers and sellers, and the quiet holders worth a call.

Ownership changes, NWND

Q1 2026 to Q2 2026, 48.2M shares outstanding

Q2 complete

Holder	Q1	Q2	Change	% out
Ostrava Lane CapitalSeller 13G/A, Jul 2026	3.41M	3.18M	-230K	6.6%
Westlake Income FundQuiet 13G, Feb 2026	2.96M	2.96M	0	6.1%
Harbor Ridge CapitalBuyer 13F, Q2 2026	1.43M	1.84M	+412K	3.8%
Alder Street AdvisorsSeller 13F, Q2 2026	1.21M	905K	-305K	1.9%
Pinecrest Asset MgmtNew 13F, Q2 2026	0	640K	+640K	1.3%
Tamworth Bay PartnersClosed 13F, Q2 2026	380K	0	-380K	0.0%

Institutional filers only. Positions as of quarter end.

01 Quarterly cadence

The ownership picture follows the filing calendar, not the trading day

Most small and mid cap issuers learn about their shareholder base once a quarter, from a PDF that a surveillance vendor or a broker sends a few weeks after the filing window closes. The IR lead then copies the top twenty names into a spreadsheet, adds a column for last contact, and starts the same exercise from zero three months later.

Issuers follows the same public calendar but keeps the work in one place. It checks SEC EDGAR every day during the window, adds each report to the snapshot as it lands, and updates the brief of every holder whose position moved. The result is a running ownership view that is complete when the window closes, with the history of earlier quarters underneath.

01Day 0

Quarter end

Managers record their long positions in 13(f) securities as of the last day of the calendar quarter. Nothing is public yet.
02Day 1 to 45

Filing window

Form 13F reports arrive on SEC EDGAR, most of them in the last two weeks. Issuers adds each report the day it is filed.
03Day 46

Snapshot

The quarter is marked complete. Buyers, sellers, new and closed positions and quiet holders are calculated against the prior quarter.
04Same day

Brief update

Every holder whose position moved gets an updated brief, and a follow up task appears in the CRM for the owner of the relationship.

Between quarters, Schedule 13D and 13G statements and their amendments are added as they are filed, because a holder crossing five percent should not wait for the next 13F cycle.

02 Who moved

Three lists every IR lead needs after each quarter

The full holder table is useful for the record, but the decisions come from three short lists. Each one links to the holder's CRM record, the meetings logged with them and the filing behind every number.

Top buyers

Building

Holders that added shares or opened a new position. A buyer that has never met management is the first call to make, while the thesis is fresh.

Pinecrest Asset Mgmt+640K
Harbor Ridge Capital+412K
Greyfriars Lane Equity+155K

Top sellers

Reducing

Holders that trimmed or closed a position. The filing does not say why, so the useful step is a conversation and a note in the CRM, not a guess.

Tamworth Bay Partners-380K
Alder Street Advisors-305K
Ostrava Lane Capital-230K

Quiet holders

No contact

Steady positions held for two quarters or more with no meeting logged in twelve months. Often a large share of the float, and easy to forget.

Westlake Income Fund9 quarters
Merrow Point Trust6 quarters
Linden Quay Advisors4 quarters

Investor relations manager comparing quarterly ownership changes on a monitor with a colleague in a bright office — Ownership changes reviewed the day the quarter closes.

The same lists feed the rest of the workspace. Buyers and quiet holders become the starting list for investor targeting, where Issuers adds institutions that hold your peers but not you. Sellers get a task for a follow up call.

Because the shareholder base sits inside the investor relations platform, a change in position appears in the next meeting brief without anyone copying it there.

03 Honest limits

Public filings show a large part of the register, never all of it

An ownership table built from public data is accurate for what it covers and silent on the rest. Issuers says so on the page itself, so no one reads the table as a complete register.

Only larger managers

Form 13F is required from managers with 100 million USD or more in 13(f) securities. Smaller advisers, family offices and many private funds do not file.

Long positions only

13F covers long positions in listed equities and certain options. Short positions, swaps and most derivatives do not appear.

No retail holders

Individual investors and their brokerage accounts are not in any public holdings filing, even when together they own a large share of the float.

Most non-US holders missing

Managers outside the US file 13F only if they meet the US threshold. Many European and Asian holders never appear.

A lag of weeks

Positions are as of quarter end and can be filed up to 45 days later. A fund can buy and sell inside a quarter and leave no trace.

Fund level, not decision maker

A filing names the manager, not the portfolio manager who decides. The CRM is where you record who that person is.

Issuers that need beneficial owners behind nominee accounts have formal routes. In the EU, the Shareholder Rights Directive lets an issuer request identification through the chain of intermediaries, and in the US an issuer can request lists of non-objecting beneficial owners through brokers. Those requests are usually run by a specialist and can be loaded into the CRM next to the public data.

04 Compared

Three ways to know your shareholders, and what each one costs you

Public filings in a workspace, a custodian based shareholder ID analysis from a specialist, or a spreadsheet kept by hand. Many issuers combine the first two, ordering a specialist analysis once or twice a year and following the public data every quarter.

Public filings in Issuers compared with a specialist shareholder ID analysis and with a spreadsheet
Question	Issuers, public filings	Specialist shareholder ID	Spreadsheet
Coverage	Institutions filing 13F, holders above five percent	Most of the register, including nominee accounts	Whatever someone copied
Retail and non-US holders	Not visible	Largely visible	Not visible
How often	Every quarter, updated daily in the window	Per project, often once or twice a year	When someone has time
Source on each figure	Yes, filing and date on every row	Analyst report	Rarely
Linked to meetings and briefs	Yes, same record as the CRM	No, a separate report	No
Cost	Included from the Public plan	Priced per analysis	Staff time

05 Plans

Included on Public and Enterprise for listed issuers

Shareholder identification is part of the Public plan at $2,999 a month, or $1,499 a month billed yearly, and of Enterprise. Both keep the quarter by quarter history, with the audit trail retained for 7 years. Growth is built for private issuers before a raise and does not include the shareholder base.

Ownership is one input to the wider market view. Multiples, analyst coverage and debt comparables for your peers sit next to it under peer analysis. Issuers is software for issuers. It is not a broker dealer or investment adviser, and the figures it shows are information, not advice.

45 days

Filing window for Form 13F after each calendar quarter end.

7 years

Audit trail retention on Public and Enterprise.

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Questions

Questions issuers ask before they start

What is shareholder identification?

Shareholder identification is the work of finding out who owns your stock, how much each holder owns and how that changed over time. Listed issuers use it to plan roadshows, prepare meetings and spot a holder that is building or selling a position. Issuers builds the institutional part of the picture from public filings: Form 13F reports from investment managers and Schedule 13D and 13G statements from holders above five percent. Every row shows the filing it comes from, and each holder links to its record in the investor relations CRM.

How often do institutional holdings filings update?

Form 13F is filed once per calendar quarter. Managers with 100 million USD or more in 13(f) securities report their long positions as of the last day of the quarter and have 45 days to file. Most reports arrive in the final two weeks of that window, so a quarter becomes readable roughly six weeks after it ends. Schedule 13D and 13G follow their own triggers when a holder crosses five percent, and amendments arrive in between. Issuers checks SEC EDGAR daily, updates the snapshot as reports land and marks the quarter complete once the filing window closes.

Can we see who bought and sold our stock last quarter?

Yes, for institutions that file 13F and for holders above five percent. The ownership change table compares the two most recent quarter end positions of each filer and sorts them into buyers, sellers, new positions, closed positions and unchanged holders, with the share change and the percent of shares outstanding. What you do not see is retail ownership, short positions, most holders outside the US and trading inside the quarter. A fund that bought in April and sold in June shows no change. For that level of detail you need a custodian based analysis, which the page above compares.

What is a quiet holder?

In Issuers a quiet holder is an institution that has held a meaningful position for at least two quarters, has barely changed it, and has no meeting or call logged in the CRM in the last twelve months. These holders often own a large share of the float and are easy to forget because they never ask for anything. A short list of quiet holders is a practical starting point for a non-deal roadshow, and the brief for each one shows how long they have held, how the position moved and who in the team last spoke with them. The same list feeds investor targeting.

See who moved in your stock last quarter

Type your ticker and read a sample brief built from your filings. Shareholder identification is included on the Public plan from $1,499 a month billed yearly, and on Enterprise.