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A stock checklist: from consensus to the full profile
An order for reading a stock's page without skipping anything: who owns it, who got in and who got out, what its insiders are doing and what its financials say.
Free account for the details10–15 min
Step by step
- Pick a starting point: a list in Ideas, such as “Sustained accumulation” or “New ideas”, or the stocks most managers added. Each card says why the stock is there: how many managers held it before and now, how many added and trimmed, and the net flow.
- Open the stock's page. In the summary, start with Well-known investors holding it and the concentrated managers that own it, with the weight each one gives it.
- Move on to the Quarter flow: how many opened, added, trimmed or sold out, and the net flow in dollars. Read them together: they can point in different directions.
- Check who else holds it across all 13F filers, how much is in institutional hands and, further down, the financials: fundamentals, buybacks and dilution, earnings quality and debt.
With a free account, one step further
- Managers tab: the full table of concentrated managers, with weight, value and move, and what happened to the stock 3, 6, 12 and 24 months after they got in or out.
- Holders tab: the largest holders, the largest buyers and the largest sellers across all 13F filers.
- Insiders & 13D tab: open-market purchases by insiders and the history of each holder above 5%.
- History tab: how institutional ownership has changed, quarter by quarter.
- To keep it in view: Follow it, add it to a List or set up Alerts.
What to look for and how to read it
- Many managers getting in does not tell you how much: check the net flow too. And the other way round, a large flow can come from a single one.
- Lots of new managers next to “Already held it: 5 added, 30 trimmed” is a mixed picture: newcomers got in while existing holders cut back.
- The price on the page is the 13F implied price (reported value divided by the number of shares), not today's quote.
- What happened after the moves is a historical pattern, often based on few cases; the site flags what is not conclusive.
Limits and caveats
- Entities within the same group file separately: “all 13F filers” can count the same money twice.
- Financials come from 10-K and 10-Q filings; “no data” does not mean zero.
- A high consensus score does not mean more managers are buying than selling: the page spells this out.
Everything comes from public SEC filings. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after the quarter ends: these are not real-time positions. It is for research, not investment advice. How to read a 13F.