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Canadian Natural Resources CNQ

US equityMarket cap rank #209Oil & Gas E&P

$48.55 −$0.37 (-0.76%)

Market closed · Nov 7, 9:10 am ET · Last extended-hours $48.67 +0.26%

Open$48.88

Prev close$48.92

Day range$48.42 – $49.34

Volume6.92M

Market cap$98.81B

P/E (TTM)10.1

Dividend yield3.56%

Ownership & positioning

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

Institutional ownership81.5%+0.36 pts vs. prior quarter

Institutions holding957+8 vs. prior quarter

Insider trades (recent)0 buys / 1 sellsNet selling

Short interest2.88% of floatDays to cover 11.7 · as of 15 Oct 2026

Short-sale volume share27.2%5-day average of daily volume

Short-sale volume as % of daily volume

Large-order net flow, last 20 sessions

Net of large-order buying minus selling, in USD. Over this window: +$1.56M (9 inflow days, 11 outflow days).

Net flow by order size, last 20 sessions

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 32.2% of shares outstanding.

Largest holders

Capital Research16.65%
BlackRock5.72%
Vanguard Capital Management, LLC3.73%
BMO Asset Management3.14%
FMR2.93%
RBC Dominion Securities Inc.2.51%
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.2.41%
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.2.29%

By investor type

Mutual Fund62.57%
Public Company8.97%
Government Pension Fund4.57%
Private Company3.87%
Individual/Insider2.17%
Hedge Fund1.22%
Government0.09%
Family Office/Trust0.09%

Reported short interest has risen from 2.33% to 2.88% of float over the last 6 biweekly reports (31 Jul 2026 to 15 Oct 2026).

Recent institutional activity

Holder	Type	Period	Share change	New stake
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.	Public Company	2026/Q3	+24,431,275	2.4%
RBC Dominion Securities Inc.	Private Company	2026/Q3	+12,730,561	2.5%
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+11,885,702	2.3%
BlackRock	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+9,195,257	5.7%
Jane Street Group, LLC	Private Company	2026/Q3	+8,168,265	0.5%
National Bank Investments Inc.	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+7,025,218	0.9%
OMERS Administration Corporation	Government Pension Fund	2026/Q3	+6,987,466	0.3%
Morgan Stanley	Public Company	2026/Q3	+5,147,285	0.6%
Two Sigma Investments, LP	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+4,695,453	0.2%
Blue Sparrow, Llc	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+4,380,000	0.4%
William Blair Investment Management, LLC	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+3,644,078	0.2%
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings Co., Ltd.	Private Company	2026/Q3	+3,262,880	0.3%
The Bank of Nova Scotia	Public Company	2026/Q3	+3,232,031	0.5%
Beutel Goodman & Company Ltd.	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+2,883,173	0.3%
Renaissance Technologies Corp.	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+2,859,500	0.1%

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

Insider transactions

Date	Insider	Title	Transaction	Shares	Price	Held after
12 Mar 2026	Norman Edwards	Executive Chairperson	Open Market Disposition	-500,000	$48.18	42,776,076

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 date	Shares short	% of float	Days to cover
15 Oct 2026	59,387,363	2.9%	11.7
30 Sep 2026	117,144,565	5.7%	21.3
15 Sep 2026	182,920,552	8.9%	22.1
31 Aug 2026	113,170,168	5.5%	20.5
14 Aug 2026	57,647,400	2.8%	8.4
31 Jul 2026	48,494,402	2.3%	7.3

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