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Kadant KAI

US equityMarket cap rank #2444Specialty Industrial Machinery
$267.14 −$1.69 (-0.63%)
Pre-market · Oct 6, 7:00 am ET · After hours $267.14 0.00%
Open$267.89
Prev close$268.83
Day range$265.15 – $274.51
Volume165.5K
Market cap$3.15B
P/E (TTM)28.7
Dividend yield0.52%

Ownership & positioning

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

Institutional ownership112.2%+0.01 pts vs. prior quarter
Institutions holding387-2 vs. prior quarter
Insider trades (recent)37 buys / 13 sellsNet buying
Short interest8.47% of floatDays to cover 5.1 · as of 15 Sep 2026
Short-sale volume share21.1%5-day average of daily volume

Short-sale volume as % of daily volume

10%19%29%38%Sep '26Sep '26Oct '26

Large-order net flow, last 20 sessions

Net of large-order buying minus selling, in USD. Over this window: −$20.48M (8 inflow days, 12 outflow days).

The five largest holders on file together own 43.7% of shares outstanding.

Largest holders

  • BlackRock15.23%
  • Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management, LLC9.11%
  • Wasatch Advisors LP7.36%
  • Vanguard Portfolio Management, LLC6.02%
  • Capital Research6.00%
  • Vanguard Capital Management, LLC5.23%
  • State Street Global Advisors4.09%
  • Geode Capital Management, LLC2.91%

By investor type

  • Mutual Fund100.24%
  • Public Company6.31%
  • Private Company1.73%
  • Hedge Fund1.65%
  • Individual/Insider1.16%
  • Sovereign Wealth Fund0.97%
  • Government Pension Fund0.90%
  • Insurance Company0.18%

Reported short interest has fallen from 8.73% to 8.47% of float over the last 6 biweekly reports (30 Jun 2026 to 15 Sep 2026).

Short interest, by report

Report dateShares short% of floatDays to cover
15 Sep 2026 999,653 8.5% 5.1
31 Aug 2026 943,320 8.0% 6.8
14 Aug 2026 1,056,956 9.0% 9.0
31 Jul 2026 1,077,121 9.1% 8.9
15 Jul 2026 1,125,997 9.5% 9.7
30 Jun 2026 1,030,304 8.7% 5.8

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