Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.
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The quarterly filing showing who owns a company — promoters, institutions, retail — and how much is pledged.
One page, free, filed every quarter, containing the single best early warning available on Indian mid-caps.
The share of a company held by domestic institutional investors, reported in the quarterly shareholding pattern.
Domestic funds building over consecutive quarters is among the more reliable positive signals. One filing is a snapshot; four to eight of them is a trend.
The share of a company held by foreign institutional investors, reported in the quarterly shareholding pattern.
Serious research usually precedes it, and it brings volatility with it — they can sell for global reasons. Check whether FIIs are leaving the whole market before reading it as a verdict on this company.
The number of individual small shareholders on a company's register, disclosed each quarter in the shareholding pattern.
Rising sharply while institutions reduce is the shape of informed money selling to newcomers.
The requirement under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Rules that a listed company keep at least 25% of its shares with the public, a shortfall being corrected within twelve months through routes SEBI specifies.
A seller acting on a legal deadline rather than a view on value, and the gap is a subtraction anyone can do from the quarterly shareholding pattern. Listed public sector companies have repeatedly been given extended timelines that no private issuer would get.