Ownership Search

This page enables you to find out specific information about a specific institution’s holdings in other companies and/or a list of companies and institutional holders based on a variety of holding data.

· To Search a Holding Institution By Name

o In the edit box, enter the name of the company you wish to find.
As you begin to enter a company’s name or ticker symbol a drop down box will expand beneath the edit box with a list of names of companies meeting that criteria and a total number at the bottom. The more parts of the name you include, the information in this drop down window will change to reflect the new criteria, allowing you to quickly expand or narrow your search.

o Click on the Search button.
This will display the Search Results page that will show all the company names containing the text you typed.

· To Search by Institutional Information

o % Held by Institutions – This refers to the percent of shares of a company owned by institutional holders.

§ To search, simply enter the number range of interest in the appropriate boxes. Mergent Online will automatically search between the low and high numbers specified.

o % Change in Shares Held – This is refers to the change in shares owned by an institutional holder between filing periods.

§ To search, simply enter the number range of interest in the appropriate boxes. Mergent Online will automatically search between the low and high numbers specified.

o Total Institutional Holders – Is the total number of institutional investors that own shares of a company.

§ To search, simply enter the number range of interest in the appropriate boxes. Mergent Online will automatically search between the low and high numbers specified.

o Money Flow – This refers to the money (value of shares) flowing into and out of (being bought and sold) a company from institutional holders.

§ To search, simply enter the number range of interest in the appropriate boxes. Mergent Online will automatically search between the low and high numbers specified.

o Price Change from LQAP – This refers to the price change from last quarter’s average price.

§ To search, simply enter the number range of interest in the appropriate boxes. Mergent Online will automatically search between the low and high numbers specified.

o Position

§ To search, simply enter the number range of interest in the appropriate boxes. Mergent Online will automatically search between the low and high numbers specified. Below are the possible position changes by which you may search:

· New

· Closed

· Increased

· Decreased

· Unchanged

· Ownership Search Results

o Once you have inputted your criteria and clicked Search, you will be redirected to the Ownership Search Results page. Results are displayed in a table with the following columns: Company Name, SIC Code, Exchange, Ticker, Country, and Sector.

§ By default, results that match all criteria you entered will display first in the results list on the page.

§ It is possible to generate a results list for a single category of criteria without performing another search. At the top of the results page is a box with two tabs:

· Holding Institution – Clicking this tab will cause Mergent Online to search for results that satisfy the holding institution name criteria you entered in your previous search only. Note: You cannot change the criteria you inputted in your original search without performing a new search.

· Institutional Information – Clicking this tab will cause Mergent Online to search for results that satisfy the institutional information criteria you entered in your previous search only. Note: You cannot change the criteria you inputted in your original search without performing a new search.

o Industry - Clicking the Industry tab will cause Mergent Online to search for results that satisfy the Industry criteria you entered in your previous search only. Note: You cannot change the criteria you inputted in your original search without performing a new search.

· Click the link at the bottom of this box to revert the results list back to showing results for all criteria searched.

§ Navigating Multiple Pages of Results - To navigate multiple pages of results, use the page navigation tools at the top of the results list.

§ Other Results List Features

· Customizable Columns – You can customize the order and category by which your results are organized by clicking the column headers.

o Clicking once will organize the results by that column’s data in ascending order.

o Clicking a second time will organize the results by that column’s data in descending order.

o By default Ownership Search Results are organized in ascending alphabetical order by Company Name.

· Search Within Results

o Company Name – To search for a specific company within the list of results provided for your search, use the Search Within Results text box at the top right of the results screen. As you begin to type the company’s name your results will change for each letter you include, narrowing as your search becomes more specific.

o Ticker - To search for a specific company by ticker symbol within the list of results provided for your search, use the Search Within Results text box at the top right of the results screen. As you begin to type the company’s ticker symbol, your results will change for each letter you include, narrowing as your search becomes more specific.

o Exchange - To search within your results for companies listed on a particular stock exchange, use the Search Within Results text box at the top right of the results screen. As you begin to type the exchange your results will change for each letter you include, narrowing as your search becomes more specific.

o CUSIP - To search for a specific company within the list of results provided for your search by CUSIP, use the Search Within Results text box at the top right of the results screen. As you begin to type the numbers your results will change for each number you include, narrowing as your search becomes more specific.

o Erase the criteria you type in the Search Within Results box to retrieve your full results list again.

· View a Company’s Page – You can jump directly to a company’s Institutional Holdings page by clicking the company’s name in the Company Name column.

· Add Companies to Company Analysis List – To add a company to your Company Analysis List, click the check boxes next to the companies you wish to add and select “Add Company” from the drop down list at the top left of the page above the search tabs.

o To add all companies in the results list, click (All) to automatically check the boxes beside all results, then select Add Company as explained above.

At the right of each results page is the My Mergent Tools function. This enables you to add the companies in the results list to the Company Analysis List or add executives to your Executive List. From the My Mergent Tools buttons you may also access the Company and Executive Alerts options. See My Mergent Tools for more details of these. Each page also features a link which will allow you to download the results list data into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

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