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Krispy Kreme DNUT

US equityMarket cap rank #3739Grocery Stores WallStreetBets

$2.92 −$0.10 (-3.31%)

Pre-market · Oct 8, 8:20 am ET · After hours $2.95 +1.00%

Open$2.99

Prev close$3.02

Day range$2.90 – $3.00

Volume1.98M

Market cap$506.62M

P/E (TTM)–

Dividend yield–

Ownership & positioning

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

Institutional ownership90.3%-0.30 pts vs. prior quarter

Institutions holding208+0 vs. prior quarter

Insider trades (recent)25 buys / 21 sellsNet buying

Short interest11.17% of floatDays to cover 10.3 · as of 15 Sep 2026

Short-sale volume share26.3%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: +$1.26M (11 inflow days, 9 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 63.4% of shares outstanding.

Largest holders

JAB Holdings B.V.42.76%
BNP Paribas Financial Markets SNC8.82%
HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited4.07%
Amundi Asset Management3.97%
BlackRock3.81%
Vanguard Capital Management, LLC2.60%
Two Sigma Investments, LP1.92%
Federated Hermes, Inc.1.89%

By investor type

VC/PE Fund43.32%
Mutual Fund25.38%
Private Company12.46%
Hedge Fund7.24%
Individual/Insider4.44%
Public Company1.41%
Family Office/Trust0.21%
Government Pension Fund0.13%

Reported short interest has risen from 9.14% to 11.17% 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	+169,582	0.1%
Amundi Asset Management	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+6,895,120	4.0%
Citadel Advisors LLC	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+1,731,672	1.0%
SG Americas Securities, LLC	Private Company	2026/Q3	+1,663,981	1.3%
Two Sigma Investments, LP	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+1,455,798	1.9%
AQR Capital Management	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+722,187	0.9%
BlackRock	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+452,857	3.8%
XTX Markets Limited	Private Company	2026/Q3	+398,147	0.2%
Squarepoint OPS LLC	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+328,885	0.3%
Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+301,443	0.2%
Renaissance Technologies Corp.	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+277,721	0.2%
Vanguard Capital Management, LLC	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+239,974	2.6%
Jane Street Group, LLC	Private Company	2026/Q3	+233,270	1.1%
Geode Capital Management, LLC	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+218,840	1.3%
Armistice Capital LLC	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+216,138	0.1%

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

Insider transactions

Date	Insider	Title	Transaction	Shares	Price	Held after
2 Aug 2026	Suk Nicholas	Chief Commercial Officer	Initial Statement of Beneficial	+0	–	62,326
30 Jun 2026	Joseph Esposito	Chief Accounting Officer	Sale to Issuer	-7,998	$3.53	30,958
30 Jun 2026	Lori Suess	Head of People & Culture	Sale to Issuer	-8,391	$3.53	27,805
11 Jun 2026	JAB Holdings B.V.		Other Derivative Acquisition	+7,069,936	–	7,069,936
9 Jun 2026	David Deno	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+33,334	–	91,813
9 Jun 2026	Bernardo Hees	Director	Other Acquisition	+64,103	–	149,516
9 Jun 2026	Nicola Steele	Chief Operating Officer	Other Acquisition	+76,924	–	356,223
9 Jun 2026	Patrick Grismer	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+33,334	–	81,129
9 Jun 2026	Melissa Werneck	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+39,653	–	39,653
9 Jun 2026	Easwaran Sundaram	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+33,334	–	81,129
9 Jun 2026	Angela Yochem	Chief Information Officer	Other Acquisition	+76,924	–	289,946
9 Jun 2026	Atiba Adams	Chief Legal Officer	Other Acquisition	+76,924	–	273,858
9 Jun 2026	David Shear	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+39,653	–	39,653
9 Jun 2026	Joshua Charlesworth	Global President & COO	Other Acquisition	+128,206	–	962,025
9 Jun 2026	Patricia Capel	Former Director	Other Acquisition	+64,103	–	149,516
9 Jun 2026	Raphael Duvivier	Chief Development Officer	Other Acquisition	+96,154	–	490,211
9 Jun 2026	Alison Holder	Chief Product Officer	Other Acquisition	+76,924	–	340,993
9 Jun 2026	Joseph Esposito	Chief Accounting Officer	Other Acquisition	+25,642	–	117,608
9 Jun 2026	Lori Suess	Head of People & Culture	Other Acquisition	+38,462	–	141,422
4 Jun 2026	Bernardo Hees	Director	Open Market Acquisition	+25,002	$3.49	2,191,950

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	19,385,719	11.2%	10.3
31 Aug 2026	18,532,070	10.7%	6.5
14 Aug 2026	19,486,963	11.2%	5.0
31 Jul 2026	19,262,774	11.2%	8.8
15 Jul 2026	18,263,128	10.6%	6.5
30 Jun 2026	15,755,068	9.1%	6.0

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