Williams-Sonoma, Inc.: shareholders and insiders

WSMNYSEConsumer cyclical · Retail-Home Furniture, Furnishings & Equipment Stores

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$254.05

November 13, 2026Market cap $30.2B

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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.

6 Holders over 5%Aug 7, 2026 Latest filing
  • Aristotle Capital Management, LLC
    Share of class9.36%
  • BlackRock, Inc.
    Share of class9.10%
  • Vanguard Capital Management
    Share of class7.51%
  • Blackhill Capital
    Share of class6.40%
  • Vanguard Portfolio Management
    Share of class5.05%
  • State Street
    Share of class5.00%
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.

  • The Vanguard Group0.00%Mar 27, 202613G/A
  • FMR4.70%Feb 12, 202513G/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.

Sep 30, 2026 quarter end
  • D.E. Shaw
    In the quarter+12%
  • Renaissance Technologies
    In the quarter-34%
  • Citadel Advisors (Griffin)
    In the quarter+78%
  • AQR Capital
    In the quarter-33%
  • Millennium Mgmt (Englander)
    In the quarter-56%

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, 5.55% of its shares outstanding were held short, +20.8% since the report before.

Shares held short
6.60M
5.55%
Since the report before5.46M on Sep 30, 2026
+20.8%
5.5
1.21M
More days to cover thanof 4,578 US-listed companies with enough volume
66%
Report date
Oct 15, 2026
  • Oct 31, 2023: Shares held short 8.20M
  • Nov 15, 2023: Shares held short 8.11M
  • Nov 30, 2023: Shares held short 7.00M
  • Dec 15, 2023: Shares held short 7.40M
  • Dec 29, 2023: Shares held short 7.30M
  • Jan 12, 2024: Shares held short 7.30M
  • Jan 31, 2024: Shares held short 7.39M
  • Feb 15, 2024: Shares held short 7.09M
  • Feb 29, 2024: Shares held short 6.88M
  • Mar 15, 2024: Shares held short 6.20M
  • Mar 28, 2024: Shares held short 6.09M
  • Apr 15, 2024: Shares held short 6.18M
  • Apr 30, 2024: Shares held short 6.81M
  • May 15, 2024: Shares held short 6.61M
  • May 31, 2024: Shares held short 5.75M
  • Jun 14, 2024: Shares held short 5.71M
  • Jun 28, 2024: Shares held short 6.40M
  • Jul 15, 2024: Shares held short 12.75M
  • Jul 31, 2024: Shares held short 12.70M
  • Aug 15, 2024: Shares held short 12.94M
  • Aug 30, 2024: Shares held short 13.43M
  • Sep 13, 2024: Shares held short 14.04M
  • Sep 30, 2024: Shares held short 14.47M
  • Oct 15, 2024: Shares held short 13.51M
  • Oct 31, 2024: Shares held short 14.07M
  • Nov 15, 2024: Shares held short 13.80M
  • Nov 29, 2024: Shares held short 12.76M
  • Dec 13, 2024: Shares held short 11.98M
  • Dec 31, 2024: Shares held short 10.35M
  • Jan 15, 2025: Shares held short 9.35M
  • Jan 31, 2025: Shares held short 8.19M
  • Feb 14, 2025: Shares held short 8.79M
  • Feb 28, 2025: Shares held short 9.06M
  • Mar 14, 2025: Shares held short 9.27M
  • Mar 31, 2025: Shares held short 8.03M
  • Apr 15, 2025: Shares held short 6.73M
  • Apr 30, 2025: Shares held short 6.59M
  • May 15, 2025: Shares held short 6.89M
  • May 30, 2025: Shares held short 6.40M
  • Jun 13, 2025: Shares held short 5.71M
  • Jun 30, 2025: Shares held short 5.88M
  • Jul 15, 2025: Shares held short 5.81M
  • Jul 31, 2025: Shares held short 6.50M
  • Aug 15, 2025: Shares held short 6.58M
  • Aug 29, 2025: Shares held short 6.20M
  • Sep 15, 2025: Shares held short 6.33M
  • Sep 30, 2025: Shares held short 6.11M
  • Oct 15, 2025: Shares held short 6.61M
  • Oct 31, 2025: Shares held short 6.86M
  • Nov 14, 2025: Shares held short 7.02M
  • Nov 28, 2025: Shares held short 7.61M
  • Dec 15, 2025: Shares held short 7.89M
  • Dec 31, 2025: Shares held short 8.26M
  • Jan 15, 2026: Shares held short 9.31M
  • Jan 30, 2026: Shares held short 8.51M
  • Feb 13, 2026: Shares held short 7.27M
  • Feb 27, 2026: Shares held short 7.33M
  • Mar 13, 2026: Shares held short 7.16M
  • Mar 31, 2026: Shares held short 6.75M
  • Apr 15, 2026: Shares held short 7.07M
  • Apr 30, 2026: Shares held short 6.94M
  • May 15, 2026: Shares held short 6.57M
  • May 29, 2026: Shares held short 6.82M
  • Jun 15, 2026: Shares held short 7.32M
  • Jun 30, 2026: Shares held short 6.45M
  • Jul 15, 2026: Shares held short 6.35M
  • Jul 31, 2026: Shares held short 5.61M
  • Aug 14, 2026: Shares held short 5.30M
  • Aug 31, 2026: Shares held short 5.45M
  • Sep 15, 2026: Shares held short 5.74M
  • Sep 30, 2026: Shares held short 5.46M
  • Oct 15, 2026: Shares held short 6.60M

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 trading78.6% of the shares in the last 14 sessions' reported trades were short sales.

In the last 14 sessions, 78.6% of the shares in the reported trades were short sales, against 77.0% in the 14 before.

Last 14 sessionsOct 27, 2026 – Nov 13, 2026
78.6%
The 14 beforeOct 7, 2026 – Oct 26, 2026
77.0%
Change
+1.6 pts
Short sales a dayon average, of 346.5K shares
272.2K
More than atof 3,649 US-listed companies, same days
100%
Median of alleight in ten from 34.6% to 63.4%
50.1%
  • Oct 7, 2026: Short sales 87.6%
  • Oct 8, 2026: Short sales 82.3%
  • Oct 9, 2026: Short sales 85.7%
  • Oct 12, 2026: Short sales 62.9%
  • Oct 13, 2026: Short sales 77.3%
  • Oct 14, 2026: Short sales 78.8%
  • Oct 15, 2026: Short sales 71%
  • Oct 16, 2026: Short sales 79%
  • Oct 19, 2026: Short sales 74.2%
  • Oct 20, 2026: Short sales 75.4%
  • Oct 21, 2026: Short sales 76%
  • Oct 22, 2026: Short sales 80.6%
  • Oct 23, 2026: Short sales 71.7%
  • Oct 26, 2026: Short sales 79.4%
  • Oct 27, 2026: Short sales 81.5%
  • Oct 28, 2026: Short sales 85.7%
  • Oct 29, 2026: Short sales 85.3%
  • Oct 30, 2026: Short sales 75.9%
  • Nov 2, 2026: Short sales 78.4%
  • Nov 3, 2026: Short sales 75%
  • Nov 4, 2026: Short sales 76.4%
  • Nov 5, 2026: Short sales 76.4%
  • Nov 6, 2026: Short sales 66.7%
  • Nov 9, 2026: Short sales 81.4%
  • Nov 10, 2026: Short sales 67.7%
  • Nov 11, 2026: Short sales 78.7%
  • Nov 12, 2026: Short sales 76%
  • Nov 13, 2026: Short sales 85.8%

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.

10b5-1 trading plans

Since 2023 every 10-Q and 10-K says which insiders adopted or ended a trading plan (Rule 10b5-1) in the quarter: when, for how many shares, until when. A plan explains the sales that follow months before they show up on Form 4.

2 Adopted in the last 12 months14 Filings read
  • Anne Finucane,Director
    What happenedAdoptedJul 16, 2026
    Shares1,100
  • Jeff HowieExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
    What happenedAdoptedNov 21, 2025
    Shares51.7K
  • Karalyn YearoutExecutive Vice President and Chief Talent Officer
    What happenedAdoptedOct 15, 2025
    Shares7,250
  • Laura AlberDirector, President and Chief Executive Officer
    What happenedAdoptedOct 2, 2025
    Shares210.0K

As the company states them in Item 9B of the 10-K and Part II, Item 5 of the 10-Q, with structured data. A plan allows sales on preset dates and prices. It does not say whether all of them will be executed.

Executive pay

From the Pay versus Performance table every company puts in its proxy statement since 2023: what the chief executive was paid, what was actually paid once the shares vest at year-end values, and how the stock did against the peer group the company itself picked.

FY2026 Latest year6 Years on record

$33M

Actually paid: $56M

$5.2M

Actually paid: $6.8M

$349

Peers: $164

Adjusted EPS

From the proxy statement (DEF 14A) of May 6, 2026, as filed with the SEC with structured data. Pay in dollars. The company picks its own peer group and measure. DEF 14A

Share repurchases

How many of its own shares the company bought each quarter, at what average price, for how much, and what remains of the program its board authorized, from the table it puts in every 10-Q and 10-K.

$1.1B Repurchases over 4 quarters$51M Left in the program
  • May 3, 202610-Q
    Amount$288M
  • Feb 1, 202610-K
    Amount$298M
  • Nov 2, 202510-Q
    Amount$267M
  • Aug 3, 202510-Q
    Amount$199M
  • May 4, 202510-Q
    Amount$90M
  • Feb 2, 202510-K
    Amount$100M
  • Oct 27, 202410-Q
    Amount$534M
  • Jul 28, 202410-Q
    Amount$130M

From the "Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities" table of the 10-Qs and 10-Ks, read without a model. Only the quarters whose shares times average price agree with the cash the company says it paid for repurchases in its cash-flow statement are shown. The shares include those withheld for officers' taxes. A quarter with an accelerated repurchase shows the table's shares and the cash paid, without an average price. 2 filing(s) not shown, as the table was not read or did not agree with the cash.

The shareholders' vote on pay

The advisory say-on-pay vote at each annual meeting, as the company states it in the 8-K it files after the meeting: how many voted for and against the executives' pay. 90% is the norm. Under 70% proxy advisers expect the board to respond the next year.

84.0% For in 20266 Votes on record
  • 2026Jun 22, 2026
    For
    84.0%
  • 2025Jun 13, 2025
    For
    86.0%
  • 2024May 31, 2024
    For
    94.0%
  • 2023Jun 5, 2023
    For
    98.0%
  • 2022Jun 3, 2022
    For
    98.5%
  • 2021Jun 4, 2021
    For
    81.5%

From the 8-K (item 5.07) the company files after each annual meeting since 2021, read from the filing's text without a model. A company that votes every three years has empty years. The vote is advisory: the board is not bound by it.

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.

46 ETFs holding it3.34% The largest weight (XHB)
  • XHBState Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P(R) Homebuilders ETF
    Weight in the fund3.34%
  • RDVYFirst Trust Rising Dividend Achievers ETF
    Weight in the fund2.12%
  • SDVYFirst Trust SMID Cap Rising Dividend Achievers ETF
    Weight in the fund0.98%
  • QUALiShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF
    Weight in the fund0.69%
  • XLYState Street(R) Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR(R) ETF
    Weight in the fund0.68%
  • VBRVanguard Small-Cap Value Index Fund
    Weight in the fund0.59%
  • AVLVAvantis U.S. Large Cap Value ETF
    Weight in the fund0.44%
  • DUHPDimensional US High Profitability ETF
    Weight in the fund0.39%
  • VBVanguard Small-Cap Index Fund
    Weight in the fund0.33%
  • SPHQInvesco S&P 500 Quality ETF
    Weight in the fund0.29%

46 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.

1,002 Managers, Q2 2026$26.4B Value of their positions
  • Q3 2025: Managers 943
  • Q4 2025: Managers 948
  • Q1 2026: Managers 935
  • Q2 2026: Managers 1,002

Institutional investors by quarter

The fund managers holding WSM, quarter by quarter, from Q1 2013 to Q2 2025, 50 more quarters

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Q2 2026: 1,002 managers held 113M shares, worth $26.4B. During the quarter 148 opened a position, 81 closed one, 335 added and 352 trimmed.

The largest holders, Q2 2026

  • BlackRock
    In the quarter-1.7%
  • Aristotle Capital Management
    In the quarter-0.7%
  • Vanguard Capital Management
    In the quarter-0.9%
  • Blackhill Capital
    In the quarter
  • Vanguard Portfolio Management
    In the quarter+3.2%
  • State Street
    In the quarter+1.9%
  • Geode Capital Management
    In the quarter+1.0%
  • First Trust Advisors
    In the quarter+4.7%
  • Norges Bank
    In the quarter-1.0%
  • Invesco
    In the quarter-5.2%

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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Which well-known managers hold WSM?

5 of the managers we track held the shares on Sep 30, 2026. The largest position was D.E. Shaw's, worth $210M.

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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