Key Insights

• Insiders appear to have a vested interest in Anglo Asian Mining's growth, as seen by their sizeable ownership

• A total of 6 investors have a majority stake in the company with 51% ownership

• Institutions own 25% of Anglo Asian Mining

If you want to know who really controls Anglo Asian Mining PLC (LON:AAZ), then you'll have to look at the makeup of its share registry. With 40% stake, individual insiders possess the maximum shares in the company. That is, the group stands to benefit the most if the stock rises (or lose the most if there is a downturn).

Clearly, insiders benefitted the most after the company's market cap rose by UK￡13m last week.

In the chart below, we zoom in on the different ownership groups of Anglo Asian Mining.

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What Does The Institutional Ownership Tell Us About Anglo Asian Mining?

Institutional investors commonly compare their own returns to the returns of a commonly followed index. So they generally do consider buying larger companies that are included in the relevant benchmark index.

Anglo Asian Mining already has institutions on the share registry. Indeed, they own a respectable stake in the company. This suggests some credibility amongst professional investors. But we can't rely on that fact alone since institutions make bad investments sometimes, just like everyone does. It is not uncommon to see a big share price drop if two large institutional investors try to sell out of a stock at the same time. So it is worth checking the past earnings trajectory of Anglo Asian Mining, (below). Of course, keep in mind that there are other factors to consider, too.

Hedge funds don't have many shares in Anglo Asian Mining. Looking at our data, we can see that the largest shareholder is the CEO Mohammed Vaziri with 29% of shares outstanding. John Sununu is the second largest shareholder owning 9.4% of common stock, and Charles Stanley & Co. Ltd, Asset Management Arm holds about 3.7% of the company stock.

On further inspection, we found that more than half the company's shares are owned by the top 6 shareholders, suggesting that the interests of the larger shareholders are balanced out to an extent by the smaller ones.

Researching institutional ownership is a good way to gauge and filter a stock's expected performance. The same can be achieved by studying analyst sentiments. As far as we can tell there isn't analyst coverage of the company, so it is probably flying under the radar.

Insider Ownership Of Anglo Asian Mining

While the precise definition of an insider can be subjective, almost everyone considers board members to be insiders. Company management run the business, but the CEO will answer to the board, even if he or she is a member of it.