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Daktronics DAKT

US equityMarket cap rank #3349Electronic Components

$17.81 −$0.04 (-0.22%)

Market closed · Oct 8, 7:00 am ET · Last extended-hours $17.88 +0.37%

Open$17.68

Prev close$17.85

Day range$17.46 – $17.83

Volume450.5K

Market cap$856.53M

P/E (TTM)18.0

Dividend yield–

Ownership & positioning

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

Institutional ownership75.9%-0.95 pts vs. prior quarter

Institutions holding237+0 vs. prior quarter

Insider trades (recent)35 buys / 12 sellsNet buying

Short interest4.28% of floatDays to cover 2.0 · as of 15 Sep 2026

Short-sale volume share29.4%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: −$1.42M (7 inflow days, 13 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 28.0% of shares outstanding.

Largest holders

BlackRock7.25%
EARNEST Partners, LLC6.41%
Progeny 3, Inc.5.71%
Alta Fox Capital Management, LLC4.43%
Vanguard Capital Management, LLC4.21%
American Century Investment Management3.77%
Dimensional Fund Advisors3.44%
Breach Inlet Capital Management, LLC3.30%

By investor type

Mutual Fund58.61%
Hedge Fund10.85%
Individual/Insider4.51%
Family Office/Trust2.42%
Public Company1.34%
VC/PE Fund0.83%
Private Company0.75%
Government Pension Fund0.50%

Reported short interest has fallen from 5.16% to 4.28% of float over the last 6 biweekly reports (30 Jun 2026 to 15 Sep 2026).

Recent institutional activity

Holder	Type	Period	Share change	New stake
Nuveen Asset Management LLC	Insurance Company	2026/Q3	+150,905	0.3%
Duquesne Family Office LLC	Family Office/Trust	2026/Q3	+560,472	2.3%
BlackRock	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+256,657	7.2%
Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+143,873	0.9%
Breach Inlet Capital Management, LLC	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+122,045	3.3%
UBS Asset Management	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+113,764	0.5%
Qube Research & Technologies Ltd	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+103,246	1.3%
American Century Investment Management	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+96,616	3.8%
Numeric Investors LLC	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+85,254	0.2%
Thrivent Investment Management, Inc.	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+79,068	1.6%
Diamond Hill Capital Management, LLC	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+76,900	0.2%
Vanguard Portfolio Management, LLC	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+70,510	2.8%
AllianceBernstein	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+62,884	0.4%
Boston Partners Global Investors, Inc.	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+60,309	0.8%
Dimensional Fund Advisors	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+58,144	3.4%

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

Insider transactions

Date	Insider	Title	Transaction	Shares	Price	Held after
20 Sep 2026	Howard Atkins	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+9,626	–	16,604
16 Sep 2026	Andrew Siegel	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+6,594	–	235,235
16 Sep 2026	John Friel	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+6,594	–	84,223
16 Sep 2026	Lance Bultena	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+6,594	–	53,634
16 Sep 2026	Jose-Marie Griffiths	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+6,594	–	67,624
16 Sep 2026	Mark Bowser	Director	Other Acquisition	+6,594	–	10,129
16 Sep 2026	Shereta Williams	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+6,594	–	53,634
16 Sep 2026	Peter Feigin	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+6,594	–	16,950
16 Sep 2026	Neil Glat	Director	Other Acquisition	+6,594	–	10,129
4 Sep 2026	Bradley Wiemann	Executive Vice President of Commercial, High School Park, Recreation & Transportation Business Units	Derivative Exercise and Sale	-569	$19.67	129,020
4 Sep 2026	Bradley Wiemann	Executive Vice President of Commercial, High School Park, Recreation & Transportation Business Units	Derivative Exercise and Retained	+1,785	–	129,020
22 Aug 2026	Bradley Wiemann	Executive Vice President of Commercial, High School Park, Recreation & Transportation Business Units	Derivative Exercise and Sale	-411	$19.00	127,235
22 Aug 2026	Bradley Wiemann	Executive Vice President of Commercial, High School Park, Recreation & Transportation Business Units	Derivative Exercise and Retained	+1,289	–	127,235
22 Aug 2026	Sheila Anderson	Chief Financial Officer	Derivative Exercise and Sale	-738	$19.00	59,696
22 Aug 2026	Sheila Anderson	Chief Financial Officer	Derivative Exercise and Retained	+2,803	–	59,696
22 Aug 2026	Matthew Kurtenbach		Derivative Exercise and Sale	-921	$19.00	367,383
22 Aug 2026	Matthew Kurtenbach		Derivative Exercise and Retained	+2,877	–	367,383
22 Aug 2026	Ramesh Jayaraman	Chief Executive Officer	Derivative Exercise and Sale	-1,726	$19.00	5,364
22 Aug 2026	Ramesh Jayaraman	Chief Executive Officer	Derivative Exercise and Retained	+5,364	–	5,364
22 Aug 2026	Brett Wendler	Vice President of Design & Development	Derivative Exercise and Sale	-852	$19.00	64,097

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 Sep 2026	2,056,802	4.3%	2.0
31 Aug 2026	2,470,806	5.1%	5.3
14 Aug 2026	2,336,724	4.8%	5.6
31 Jul 2026	2,949,692	6.1%	7.6
15 Jul 2026	2,654,057	5.5%	4.4
30 Jun 2026	2,493,513	5.2%	3.3

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