Institutional Ownership Roundup; Five Industrial Goods Stocks with Higher IO Ratio – KBH, RSG, SPR, MAS, MDR

Institutional ownership is the ownership of a substantial stake in a corporation by an institution like a mutual fund, pension fund or a large institutional investor, as shown by the number or percentage of the firm’s outstanding shares.

Corporations that have a higher institutional ownership percentage are thought to have better prospects for long term earnings expansion.

High proportion of institutional ownership may result in comparatively big changes in a security’s price, as institutions tend to acquire and sell the same security at the same time. In this article we will discuss top five industrial goods stocks with market volume over two million and intuitional ownership of higher in this sector.

KB Home (NYSE:KBH) institutional ownership was 103%. The Los Angeles, California based company has the market capitalization of 1.43 billion while its 77.22 million shares were outstanding. The price to sale ratio was 0.92. Net profit margin of the homebuilder was -3.78% while operating profit margin as -1.40%. Stock volatility for the month was 3.44% while for the week was 5.02%.

Republic Services, Inc (NYSE:RSG) has the market capitalization of 11.35 billion while its 364.70 million shares were outstanding. The company offers 21.69% sales in previous five years. Net profit margin of corporation was 7.84%. Shares of company were moving ahead of 50 days simple moving average with 7.54% while 200 days simple moving average with 12.85%.

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc (NYSE:SPR) institutional ownership was 81% while inside ownership was 0.03%. The company has the market capitalization of 2.32 billion. Its EPS was 0.24 while outstanding shares of the company were 143.68 million. Company’s Net profit margin was 0.68% while gross profit margin was 2.50%. The company earned $34 million in pervious twelve months on revenue of $5.19 billion.

Masco Corporation (NYSE:MAS) has the market capitalization of 6.56 billion while 357.10 million shares were outstanding. Beta factor, which is used to measure risk associated with the stock, was 2.23. Return on equity was booked as -56.86% while return on assets was -6.02%.

McDermott International (NYSE:MDR), which has 3 billion market capitalization, was also among highly institutional owned stocks, its institutional ownership was 90%. The company has price to earnings ratio of 17.58 while its price to book ratio was 1.62. Net profit margin of the company was 5.16% while its operating profit margin was 7.90%. ROE was booked as 9.87% while ROI was 8.90%. Stock volatility was 3.38% and 3.10% for week and month respectively.

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