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Helen Of Troy HELE

US equityMarket cap rank #3547Household & Personal Products

$28.42 +$2.87 (+11.21%)

Market open · Oct 8, 10:00 am ET · After hours $25.68 +0.49%

Open$31.30

Prev close$25.55

Day range$28.02 – $31.94

Volume654.6K

Market cap$661.84M

P/E (TTM)–

Dividend yield–

Ownership & positioning

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

Institutional ownership102.9%-1.13 pts vs. prior quarter

Institutions holding248+1 vs. prior quarter

Insider trades (recent)45 buys / 5 sellsNet buying

Short interest12.67% of floatDays to cover 9.0 · as of 15 Sep 2026

Short-sale volume share22.5%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: −$3.09M (4 inflow days, 16 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 26.0% of shares outstanding.

Largest holders

BlackRock8.08%
AQR Capital Management5.58%
Vanguard Capital Management, LLC4.93%
Managed Account Advisors LLC3.89%
D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.3.54%
Wellington Management Group3.54%
Charles Schwab Investment Management3.44%
Millennium Management LLC3.35%

By investor type

Mutual Fund74.33%
Hedge Fund22.39%
Public Company3.32%
Individual/Insider2.05%
Private Company1.49%
Government Pension Fund1.03%
Insurance Company0.21%
Family Office/Trust0.13%

Reported short interest has risen from 10.13% to 12.67% 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
George Uzzell	Individual/Insider	2026/Q3	+235,968	1.0%
Millennium Management LLC	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+636,368	3.3%
AQR Capital Management	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+550,967	5.6%
American Century Investment Management	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+393,513	2.0%
Woodline Partners LP	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+367,060	1.6%
Managed Account Advisors LLC	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+325,496	3.9%
Hamco Am Sgiic, S.A.	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+205,700	1.2%
Dimensional Fund Advisors	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+194,076	3.0%
Susquehanna International Group, LLP	Private Company	2026/Q3	+176,853	1.2%
Renaissance Technologies Corp.	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+165,200	0.9%
HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+160,374	1.3%
Pacer Advisors, Inc.	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+156,976	0.7%
PanAgora Asset Management, Inc.	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+147,072	0.6%
BlackRock	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+137,124	8.1%
EARNEST Partners, LLC	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+100,671	1.5%

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

Insider transactions

Date	Insider	Title	Transaction	Shares	Price	Held after
1 Sep 2026	George Uzzell	Chief Executive Officer	Sale to Issuer	-4,793	$28.59	235,968
31 Aug 2026	Beryl Raff	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+860	–	14,639
31 Aug 2026	Mitchell Fadel	Director	Other Acquisition	+860	–	860
31 Aug 2026	Darren Woody	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+860	–	15,929
31 Aug 2026	Thurman Case	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+860	–	12,504
31 Aug 2026	Marlo Platz		Other Acquisition	+860	–	860
31 Aug 2026	Krista Berry	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+860	–	12,326
31 Aug 2026	Tabata Gomez	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+860	–	9,544
31 Aug 2026	Elena Otero	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+860	–	9,544
31 May 2026	Beryl Raff	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+919	–	13,779
31 May 2026	Darren Woody	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+919	–	15,069
31 May 2026	Vincent Carson	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+919	–	20,763
31 May 2026	Timothy Meeker	Independent Chairperson	Other Acquisition	+919	–	14,359
31 May 2026	Thurman Case	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+919	–	11,644
31 May 2026	Krista Berry	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+919	–	11,466
31 May 2026	Tabata Gomez	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+919	–	8,684
31 May 2026	Elena Otero	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+919	–	8,684
30 Apr 2026	Brian Grass	Chief Financial Officer	Sale to Issuer	-20,853	$23.93	171,236
5 Mar 2026	Brian Grass	Chief Financial Officer	Other Acquisition	+60,716	–	192,089
5 Mar 2026	George Uzzell	Chief Executive Officer	Other Acquisition	+109,289	–	240,761

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	2,952,013	12.7%	9.0
31 Aug 2026	2,957,235	12.7%	7.9
14 Aug 2026	2,827,743	12.1%	8.6
31 Jul 2026	2,777,073	11.9%	6.7
15 Jul 2026	2,698,887	11.6%	3.6
30 Jun 2026	2,359,444	10.1%	4.1

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