Rollerblade,
Sorry for taking so long to reply to your question - I was looking
through the old questions, and it looks like yours was overlooked or
missed. Anyway, here's how to get the information you are looking for.
Your Options for obtaining the data
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Proxy statements are available through the SEC website as part of
their edgar database. The information that you want appears at the end
of the 14-K (definitive proxy) filings.
The filings you find here are very raw in their formatting - plain
text files which you have to trawl through. That said, they are free
and available rapidly.
Several companies have cleaned up these filings and put them into a
more readable format. My recommended version is Global Access (offered
by Disclosure Inc. / Thompson Financial) - which allows you to search
through old filings (I use this site because it is readily available
at academic campuses with a business school). Edgar-online.com is your
other main alternative - I do not have any experience with that site.
Both of these services are paid services - ie you get nicer data but
you have to subscribe first.
Example - Home Depot
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For example if you wanted to know the details of the large
shareholders of Home Depot, you would type in "Home Depot" on the SEC
edgar search site.
This takes you to this page :
http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?company=home+depot&CIK=&State=&SIC=&action=getcompany
From here you select the 14-K Definitive Proxy statement, and follow
the links to :
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/354950/000095014402004156/g74596ddef14a.txt
Several pages up from the bottom of this document is the text you are
looking for :
Shares
Right to Percent
Name of Beneficial Owner Owned(1)
Acquire(2) of Class
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S> <C>
<C> <C>
Bernard Marcus 59,972,649(3)
-- 2.6%
Robert L. Nardelli --
2,200,000 (*)
Gregory D. Brenneman 600
-- (*)
Richard H. Brown 2,600(4)
-- (*)
John L. Clendenin 10,786
23,437 (*)
Berry R. Cox 3,275,922(5)
937 (*)
William S. Davila 21,063
4,687 (*)
Claudio X. Gonzalez 6,100
-- (*)
Richard A. Grasso 10,000
-- (*)
Milledge A. Hart, III 4,274,179(6)
937 (*)
Bonnie G. Hill 1,638
4,687 (*)
Kenneth G. Langone 18,007,936(7)
937 (*)
Roger S. Penske 3,100
-- (*)
Larry M. Mercer 381,886
396,320 (*)
Dennis M. Donovan 72,130
-- (*)
Frank L. Fernandez 60,000
-- (*)
Carol B. Tome 43,087
166,610 (*)
Directors and executive officers as a group
(20 people) 86,210,516
2,835,578 3.8%
If you want more detailed information on the holdings of financial
institutions and funds, you are best off looking at forms 13-f and
N-SAR, which list all holdings of fund managers with $100m of
discretionary investments and all US mutual funds respectively.
CDA/Spectrum have done a great job of compiling that data into one
source - it is available (for a price) from them (they are now part of
Thompson Financial - who incidentally seem to own every single
database you could ever want!)
Links to sites mentioned above
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Government SEC website
Edgar Database - raw format
http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html
Thompson Financial Global Access info page
Compiled access to the SEC filings
http://www.thomsonib.com/products/default.asp?id=39
Thompson Financial CDA/Spectrum info page
Databases of Insider holdings, Mutual fund holdings and large
investment manager hldings
http://www.cda.com/html/cda_spectrum.html
Google Search Terms used
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Edgar "Disclosure Inc."
CDA Spectrum
Other sites obtained from personal experience with research topic.
I hope this helps you in your quest. If you have any future questions
or need additional guidance interpreting the filings, feel free to
come back to Google Answers and ask away - I'll try and keep a better
look out for your questions next time! :)
Regards
Calebu2 |
