Institutional investors own a significant stake of 43% in Talkspace, Inc. (NASDAQ:TALK)

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Key Insights

  • Institutions' substantial holdings in Talkspace implies that they have significant influence over the company's share price

  • 50% of the business is held by the top 15 shareholders

  • Recent sales by insiders

A look at the shareholders of Talkspace, Inc. (NASDAQ:TALK) can tell us which group is most powerful. The group holding the most number of shares in the company, around 43% to be precise, is institutions. That is, the group stands to benefit the most if the stock rises (or lose the most if there is a downturn).

Since institutional have access to huge amounts of capital, their market moves tend to receive a lot of scrutiny by retail or individual investors. As a result, a sizeable amount of institutional money invested in a firm is generally viewed as a positive attribute.

In the chart below, we zoom in on the different ownership groups of Talkspace.

See our latest analysis for Talkspace

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ownership-breakdown

What Does The Institutional Ownership Tell Us About Talkspace?

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.

We can see that Talkspace does have institutional investors; and they hold a good portion of the company's stock. This implies the analysts working for those institutions have looked at the stock and they like it. But just like anyone else, they could be wrong. If multiple institutions change their view on a stock at the same time, you could see the share price drop fast. It's therefore worth looking at Talkspace's earnings history below. Of course, the future is what really matters.

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Our data indicates that hedge funds own 6.7% of Talkspace. That worth noting, since hedge funds are often quite active investors, who may try to influence management. Many want to see value creation (and a higher share price) in the short term or medium term. Our data shows that NVP Associates, LLC is the largest shareholder with 8.7% of shares outstanding. With 6.7% and 5.1% of the shares outstanding respectively, Hudson Executive Capital LP and Qumra Capital are the second and third largest shareholders.

A closer look at our ownership figures suggests that the top 15 shareholders have a combined ownership of 50% implying that no single shareholder has a majority.

While studying institutional ownership for a company can add value to your research, it is also a good practice to research analyst recommendations to get a deeper understand of a stock's expected performance. Quite a few analysts cover the stock, so you could look into forecast growth quite easily.