Stagwell Inc.: shareholders and insiders

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$11.27

November 13, 2026Market cap $2.9B

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Insiders and their shares

Purchases and sales by officers and directors, from their own Form 4 filings.

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Major holders (over 5%)

Whoever comes to own more than 5% of a class of shares reports it to the SEC on Schedule 13D or 13G. Here is each holder's latest filing.

4 Holders over 5%2 On a 13DJan 13, 2026 Latest filing
  • Polpat LLCwith 1 more personClass A Common Stock
    Share of class43.5%
  • Stagwell Group LLCwith 3 more personsClass A Common Stock
    Share of class11.6%
  • Hotchkis and Wiley Capital Management, LLCClass A Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share
    Share of class8.13%
  • American Beacon Advisors, Inc.with 1 more personClass A Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share
    Share of class5.30%

What the holders on a 13D state as their purpose

From Item 4 of the filing, in the holder's own words. It is the intention the holder states, not something that happened.

  • Polpat LLC43.5%From the filing of Apr 25, 2025

    The Reporting Persons own the securities reported herein for investment purposes. The Reporting Persons may change their investment intent at any time and may seek to sell or otherwise dispose of some or all of the Issuer's securities from time to time, and/or may seek to acquire additional securities of the Issuer (which may include rights or securities exercisable or convertible into securities of the Issuer) from time to time, in each case, in open market or private transactions or otherwise. The Reporting Persons also may communicate with the board of directors of the Issuer (the "Board"), members of management and/or other stockholders of the Issuer from time to time with a view to…

    From the filing of Apr 25, 2025
  • Stagwell Group LLC11.6%From the filing of Jan 13, 2026

    Item 4 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and supplemented by adding the following: On December 15, 2025, Mark J. Penn transferred 2,000,000 shares of Class A Common Stock to Stagwell Group in order to correct a distribution of shares by Stagwell Group to Mark J. Penn on July 17, 2025.

    From the filing of Jan 13, 2026
Fell to 5% or less (2)

Holders whose latest filing says they hold 5% or less. After it they need not file again, so what they hold today is not known.

  • BlackRock, Inc.2.90%Jul 16, 202513G/A
  • The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.13D4.90%Apr 8, 202513D/A

From the Schedule 13D and 13G filed with the SEC since Dec 18, 2024, when they became structured data. A holder who has filed nothing since then is not shown here. A 13D is updated within two business days of any material change, a 13G up to 45 days after the quarter of the change, so the shares are those of the filing. The large managers also appear in the 13Fs.

Well-known managers

Which of the about 30 investment managers we track held the shares at the quarter end, and what they changed from the quarter before.

Jun 30, 2026 quarter end
  • Citadel Advisors (Griffin)
    In the quarter
  • D.E. Shaw
    In the quarter
  • AQR Capital
    In the quarter+0.1%

From the 13Fs managers file with the SEC up to 45 days after each quarter end. They show only long positions on that day, not short sales or what has changed since. No recent 13F: Pershing Square (Ackman), Scion (Burry).

Short interest

How many of the company's shares have been sold borrowed and not yet bought back, twice a month.

On Oct 15, 2026, 4.23% of its shares outstanding were held short, +13.7% since the report before.

Shares held short
10.72M
4.23%
Since the report before9.43M on Sep 30, 2026
+13.7%
5.8
1.84M
More days to cover thanof 4,578 US-listed companies with enough volume
69%
Report date
Oct 15, 2026
  • Oct 31, 2023: Shares held short 3.79M
  • Nov 15, 2023: Shares held short 3.55M
  • Nov 30, 2023: Shares held short 3.41M
  • Dec 15, 2023: Shares held short 3.53M
  • Dec 29, 2023: Shares held short 3.84M
  • Jan 12, 2024: Shares held short 3.67M
  • Jan 31, 2024: Shares held short 3.60M
  • Feb 15, 2024: Shares held short 3.72M
  • Feb 29, 2024: Shares held short 4.24M
  • Mar 15, 2024: Shares held short 4.96M
  • Mar 28, 2024: Shares held short 5.18M
  • Apr 15, 2024: Shares held short 4.84M
  • Apr 30, 2024: Shares held short 5.64M
  • May 15, 2024: Shares held short 5.25M
  • May 31, 2024: Shares held short 5.60M
  • Jun 14, 2024: Shares held short 5.37M
  • Jun 28, 2024: Shares held short 5.43M
  • Jul 15, 2024: Shares held short 5.82M
  • Jul 31, 2024: Shares held short 5.61M
  • Aug 15, 2024: Shares held short 5.74M
  • Aug 30, 2024: Shares held short 6.01M
  • Sep 13, 2024: Shares held short 5.70M
  • Sep 30, 2024: Shares held short 4.83M
  • Oct 15, 2024: Shares held short 4.22M
  • Oct 31, 2024: Shares held short 4.10M
  • Nov 15, 2024: Shares held short 3.97M
  • Nov 29, 2024: Shares held short 4.04M
  • Dec 13, 2024: Shares held short 3.56M
  • Dec 31, 2024: Shares held short 3.33M
  • Jan 15, 2025: Shares held short 3.19M
  • Jan 31, 2025: Shares held short 3.22M
  • Feb 14, 2025: Shares held short 3.27M
  • Feb 28, 2025: Shares held short 3.39M
  • Mar 14, 2025: Shares held short 3.17M
  • Mar 31, 2025: Shares held short 3.52M
  • Apr 15, 2025: Shares held short 3.90M
  • Apr 30, 2025: Shares held short 4.32M
  • May 15, 2025: Shares held short 5.12M
  • May 30, 2025: Shares held short 6.17M
  • Jun 13, 2025: Shares held short 6.55M
  • Jun 30, 2025: Shares held short 7.57M
  • Jul 15, 2025: Shares held short 7.47M
  • Jul 31, 2025: Shares held short 8.87M
  • Aug 15, 2025: Shares held short 8.05M
  • Aug 29, 2025: Shares held short 7.84M
  • Sep 15, 2025: Shares held short 7.30M
  • Sep 30, 2025: Shares held short 7.47M
  • Oct 15, 2025: Shares held short 7.78M
  • Oct 31, 2025: Shares held short 7.57M
  • Nov 14, 2025: Shares held short 7.78M
  • Nov 28, 2025: Shares held short 7.76M
  • Dec 15, 2025: Shares held short 8.04M
  • Dec 31, 2025: Shares held short 7.17M
  • Jan 15, 2026: Shares held short 8.41M
  • Jan 30, 2026: Shares held short 8.72M
  • Feb 13, 2026: Shares held short 9.47M
  • Feb 27, 2026: Shares held short 10.38M
  • Mar 13, 2026: Shares held short 10.29M
  • Mar 31, 2026: Shares held short 11.47M
  • Apr 15, 2026: Shares held short 11.07M
  • Apr 30, 2026: Shares held short 10.08M
  • May 15, 2026: Shares held short 10.10M
  • May 29, 2026: Shares held short 9.84M
  • Jun 15, 2026: Shares held short 9.14M
  • Jun 30, 2026: Shares held short 9.18M
  • Jul 15, 2026: Shares held short 8.20M
  • Jul 31, 2026: Shares held short 9.22M
  • Aug 14, 2026: Shares held short 8.52M
  • Aug 31, 2026: Shares held short 9.10M
  • Sep 15, 2026: Shares held short 9.20M
  • Sep 30, 2026: Shares held short 9.43M
  • Oct 15, 2026: Shares held short 10.72M

As brokers report them to the regulator twice a month, mid-month and at month end, published about eight business days later. A short position is shares sold borrowed and not yet bought back. The share count is the one the company's market value is figured on, from its filings. Days to cover is the shares held short over the average daily volume of the weeks between two reports.

Short sales in daily trading43.4% of the shares in the last 14 sessions' reported trades were short sales.

In the last 14 sessions, 43.4% of the shares in the reported trades were short sales, against 59.3% in the 14 before.

Last 14 sessionsOct 27, 2026 – Nov 13, 2026
43.4%
The 14 beforeOct 7, 2026 – Oct 26, 2026
59.3%
Change
-15.9 pts
Short sales a dayon average, of 1.02M shares
442.8K
More than atof 3,649 US-listed companies, same days
29%
Median of alleight in ten from 34.6% to 63.4%
50.1%
  • Oct 7, 2026: Short sales 71.2%
  • Oct 8, 2026: Short sales 66.6%
  • Oct 9, 2026: Short sales 67.6%
  • Oct 12, 2026: Short sales 81.4%
  • Oct 13, 2026: Short sales 56.4%
  • Oct 14, 2026: Short sales 55.6%
  • Oct 15, 2026: Short sales 52.6%
  • Oct 16, 2026: Short sales 64.3%
  • Oct 19, 2026: Short sales 60.9%
  • Oct 20, 2026: Short sales 55.1%
  • Oct 21, 2026: Short sales 60.1%
  • Oct 22, 2026: Short sales 42.1%
  • Oct 23, 2026: Short sales 64.7%
  • Oct 26, 2026: Short sales 50.6%
  • Oct 27, 2026: Short sales 70.2%
  • Oct 28, 2026: Short sales 53.9%
  • Oct 29, 2026: Short sales 30.1%
  • Oct 30, 2026: Short sales 49.1%
  • Nov 2, 2026: Short sales 43.2%
  • Nov 3, 2026: Short sales 36.3%
  • Nov 4, 2026: Short sales 37.8%
  • Nov 5, 2026: Short sales 52.9%
  • Nov 6, 2026: Short sales 26.5%
  • Nov 9, 2026: Short sales 58.3%
  • Nov 10, 2026: Short sales 56.5%
  • Nov 11, 2026: Short sales 66.6%
  • Nov 12, 2026: Short sales 63.8%
  • Nov 13, 2026: Short sales 30.5%

This is not the number of shares sold short today: it measures short sales within each day's trading, and only trades made off the exchanges. Much of it is market makers, who sell shares they do not have to fill buyers' orders and cover soon after, so for a heavily traded stock the share is often around half.

The ETFs that hold it

Which of the 269 US equity ETFs we track hold the stock, and at what weight, from the funds' N-PORT filings.

15 ETFs holding it0.06% The largest weight (VOX)
  • VOXVanguard Communication Services Index Fund
    Weight in the fund0.06%
  • IWNiShares Russell 2000 Value ETF
    Weight in the fund0.05%
  • DFSVDimensional US Small Cap Value ETF
    Weight in the fund0.05%
  • VTWOVanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund
    Weight in the fund0.03%
  • IWMiShares Russell 2000 ETF
    Weight in the fund0.02%
  • SCHASchwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF
    Weight in the fund0.02%
  • VXFVanguard Extended Market Index Fund
    Weight in the fund0.01%
  • ONEQFidelity Nasdaq Composite Index ETF
    Weight in the fund0.01%
  • DFACDimensional U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF
    Weight in the fund0.01%
  • IWOiShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF
    Weight in the fund0.00%

15 of the 269 ETFs we track, not of every ETF on the market. The ten largest weights. Positions as each fund filed them in its latest N-PORT.

Institutional investors by quarter

Every manager that reports positions to the SEC (Form 13F), quarter by quarter: how many hold the stock, how many shares and dollars between them, and who entered, left, added or trimmed during the quarter.

183 Managers, Q2 2026$782M Value of their positions
  • Q3 2025: Managers 163
  • Q4 2025: Managers 173
  • Q1 2026: Managers 185
  • Q2 2026: Managers 183

Institutional investors by quarter

The fund managers holding STGW, quarter by quarter, from Q3 2021 to Q2 2025, 16 more quarters

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Q2 2026: 183 managers held 105M shares, worth $782M. During the quarter 23 opened a position, 25 closed one, 63 added and 55 trimmed.

The largest holders, Q2 2026

  • Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management
    In the quarter-7.6%
  • BlackRock
    In the quarter+4.0%
  • Madison Avenue Partners
    In the quarter
  • Dimensional Fund Advisors
    In the quarter+23%
  • ADW Capital Management
    In the quarter
  • Vanguard Capital Management
    In the quarter+7.9%
  • Boston Partners
    In the quarter-3.5%
  • Geode Capital Management
    In the quarter+3.8%
  • JPMorgan Chase
    In the quarter+0.3%
  • HighTower Advisors
    In the quarter+62%

From the SEC's Form 13F data sets, Q3 2025 to Q2 2026: the long positions of every manager with more than $100 million under management, as filed up to 45 days after each quarter end. Short positions and options are not in them. Shares as reported each quarter, not adjusted for splits. The stock is matched by its CUSIP, through the SEC's fails-to-deliver files.

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Questions about STGW's shareholders

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Which well-known managers hold STGW?

3 of the managers we track held the shares on Jun 30, 2026. The largest position was AQR Capital's, worth $5.6M.

Is every insider transaction a purchase or a sale?

No. Many are part of their pay: share awards, option exercises and shares the company keeps for the tax. Only code P is a purchase with their own money, and code S a sale on the market.

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