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Bowhead Specialty BOW

US equityMarket cap rank #3158Insurance - Property & Casualty
$34.03 +$0.25 (+0.74%)
Pre-market · Oct 8, 8:20 am ET · After hours $34.03 0.00%
Open$33.77
Prev close$33.78
Day range$33.77 – $34.05
Volume478.4K
Market cap$1.12B
P/E (TTM)18.4
Dividend yield–

Ownership & positioning

Who holds it, who is betting against it, and where the big money is moving

Institutional ownership93.3%+0.37 pts vs. prior quarter
Institutions holding206+0 vs. prior quarter
Insider trades (recent)27 buys / 22 sellsNet buying
Short interest1.83% of floatDays to cover 1.7 · as of 15 Sep 2026
Short-sale volume share9.6%5-day average of daily volume

Short-sale volume as % of daily volume

4%13%21%30%Sep '26Sep '26Oct '26

Large-order net flow, last 20 sessions

Net of large-order buying minus selling, in USD. Over this window: −$38.53M (5 inflow days, 15 outflow days).

Net flow by order size, last 20 sessions

−$38.2MSuper−$321.8KBig−$668.2KMid−$1.1MSmall

Super/Big orders approximate institutional-size trades; Mid/Small approximate retail-size trades. Net buy minus sell value in each bucket, summed over the window.

The five largest holders on file together own 57.8% of shares outstanding.

Largest holders

  • Gallatin Point Capital LLC27.22%
  • American Family Mutual Insurance Company, S.I.14.27%
  • American Century Investment Management6.32%
  • Victory Capital Management Inc.5.25%
  • BlackRock4.71%
  • Polar Capital Holdings Plc4.55%
  • Stephen Sills2.98%
  • Vanguard Capital Management, LLC2.89%

By investor type

  • Mutual Fund70.79%
  • Private Company15.42%
  • Individual/Insider4.44%
  • Hedge Fund3.49%
  • Public Company2.52%
  • Government Pension Fund0.52%
  • Sovereign Wealth Fund0.29%
  • Insurance Company0.18%

Reported short interest has fallen from 2.21% to 1.83% of float over the last 6 biweekly reports (30 Jun 2026 to 15 Sep 2026).

Recent institutional activity

HolderTypePeriodShare changeNew stake
Principal Global Investors, LLC Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +64,205 0.2%
Nuveen Asset Management LLC Insurance Company 2026/Q3 +59,696 0.2%
Silvercrest Asset Management Group LLC Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +551,821 1.7%
Victory Capital Management Inc. Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +187,840 5.2%
BlackRock Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +139,560 4.7%
American Century Investment Management Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +111,404 6.3%
Nuveen Investments Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +108,186 0.3%
AQR Capital Management Hedge Fund 2026/Q3 +98,795 0.5%
Norges Bank Investment Management Sovereign Wealth Fund 2026/Q3 +95,700 0.3%
Wasatch Advisors LP Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +78,209 1.1%
Mariner, LLC Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +71,087 0.3%
Creative Planning, Inc. Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +69,847 0.4%
Schroder Investment Management North America Inc. Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +67,149 1.3%
Advisory Research, Inc. Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +63,048 0.3%
Dimensional Fund Advisors Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +47,673 0.9%

Institutional buy/sell activity by reporting period, largest moves first.

Insider transactions

DateInsiderTitleTransactionSharesPriceHeld after
22 May 2026 Shek Yap Chief Accounting Officer Sale to Issuer -679 $23.80 59,856
22 May 2026 Brad Mulcahey CFO, Treasurer & Director Sale to Issuer -1,027 $28.30 84,905
22 May 2026 David Newman Chief Underwriting Officer Sale to Issuer -2,118 $28.30 245,795
21 May 2026 Stephen Sills Chief Executive Officer Sale to Issuer -13,053 $28.46 1,484,382
29 Apr 2026 David Foy Director Other Acquisition +3,361 – 10,085
29 Apr 2026 Angela Brock-Kyle Director Other Acquisition +6,722 – 43,495
29 Apr 2026 Fabian Fondriest Director Other Acquisition +6,722 – 49,818
29 Apr 2026 Price Lowenstein Director Other Acquisition +3,361 – 3,361
29 Apr 2026 David Holman Director Other Acquisition +3,361 – 5,716
29 Apr 2026 Ava Schnidman Director Other Acquisition +3,361 – 7,273
29 Apr 2026 Thomas Baker Director Other Acquisition +3,361 – 10,085
12 Mar 2026 Stephen Sills Chief Executive Officer Other Acquisition +127,700 – 1,497,435
12 Mar 2026 Stephen Sills Chief Executive Officer Other Disposition -127,700 – 1,497,435
19 Feb 2026 Stephen Sills Chief Executive Officer Sale to Issuer -5,419 $24.90 1,196,402
19 Feb 2026 Shek Yap Chief Accounting Officer Sale to Issuer -524 $24.90 54,295
19 Feb 2026 Brad Mulcahey CFO, Treasurer & Director Sale to Issuer -1,274 $24.90 75,237
19 Feb 2026 David Newman Chief Underwriting Officer Sale to Issuer -1,443 $24.90 –
19 Feb 2026 David Newman Chief Underwriting Officer Other Acquisition +23,488 – –
18 Feb 2026 Stephen Sills Chief Executive Officer Other Acquisition +179,269 – 301,033
18 Feb 2026 Shek Yap Chief Accounting Officer Other Acquisition +9,826 – 29,263

From Form 4/Form 144 filings. Negative share counts are disposals (sales, gifts, or shares withheld for taxes); positive are acquisitions.

Short interest, by report

Report dateShares short% of floatDays to cover
15 Sep 2026 601,629 1.8% 1.7
31 Aug 2026 548,003 1.7% 1.5
14 Aug 2026 573,675 1.7% 1.0
31 Jul 2026 696,310 2.1% 5.1
15 Jul 2026 654,862 2.0% 3.5
30 Jun 2026 724,865 2.2% 3.2

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