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s&p reports: number of shareholders?
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yes these are the number of shareholders that are not held in "street name" plus the different brokerages that hold the shares in "street name".  so the stat is pointless since it really only lists the few people who own the stocks outside of a brokerage account and a bunch of wall street brokers.
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