How do I find out if I have stock in a company?
Contact the company you’ve invested in and ask for the investor relations department. Identify yourself, then inquire when the stock certificate was registered to you, and when it was mailed. The company should have a complete record of this transaction and should have tracked the certificate.
If you know the market cap of a company and you know its share price, then figuring out the number of outstanding shares is easy. Just take the market capitalization figure and divide it by the share price. The result is the number of shares on which the market capitalization number was based.
You can find out the names of the shareholders of a public company through several resources. If you wish to find out the names of large shareholders of a public company that has filed with the SEC, you can find this information by searching EDGAR, the SEC’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval System.
The best place to start is to check with the share registrar – the organisation that maintains the list of shareholders in a particular company – that is named on the certificate. There are three main registrars in the UK – Capita, Lloyds TSB and Computershare.
All companies in India have to file their financials and details of shareholders with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA21). You can access these documents through the website Ministry Of Corporate Affairs.
Step 1: Check your names using the link – http://sec.gov.ng/non-mandated/ to obtain the list of shares relating to your names from SEC. It will display all the companies you have shares in and the registrars in charge. Step 2: Take note of the registrar’s name for each of your company’s shares.
You can trace other lost shares by contacting the three main share registrars: Link Asset Services (Linkgroup.eu or 0371664 0300); Computershare (Computershare.com/uk); and Equiniti (Equiniti.com or 0371 384 2030).
You can check your Demat account balance on the CDSL website at cdslindia.com. You can log in to CAS, enter your PAN number, Demat account number and any other personal details requested on the platform, such as your name, date of birth, etc. An OTP will be sent to your registered mobile number.
The total number of shares of all classes of capital stock which the corporation is authorized to issue is 2,100,000,000 shares, consisting of 2,000,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), and 100,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Preferred …
What happens if you own more than 5% of a company?
When a person or group acquires 5% or more of a company’s voting shares, they must report it to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Among the questions Schedule 13D asks is the purpose of the transaction, such as a takeover or merger.
How do I find out what stock someone owns?
The U.S. securities and exchange commission provides everything you need to research U.S. stocks with its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval database – better known as EDGAR. Anyone can access and download the information for free.
What you have to do:
- go to http://mca.gov.in/MCA21/index.html.
- Create an account.
- Go to ‘View Public Documents’
- Enter the name of the company you’re looking for.
- Check in the list whether Form 20B (for filing Annual Return) is available for that company.
- If it is, then make the payment and download this Form.