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PennantPark PFLT

US equityMarket cap rank #3553Asset Management
$6.66 −$0.07 (-1.04%)
Pre-market · Oct 8, 8:50 am ET · After hours $6.80 +2.10%
Open$6.70
Prev close$6.73
Day range$6.58 – $6.75
Volume1.07M
Market cap$660.79M
P/E (TTM)13.1
Dividend yield18.18%

Ownership & positioning

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

Institutional ownership22.7%-1.51 pts vs. prior quarter
Institutions holding133-2 vs. prior quarter
Insider trades (recent)10 buys / 0 sellsNet buying
Short interest3.97% of floatDays to cover 5.5 · as of 15 Sep 2026
Short-sale volume share24.5%5-day average of daily volume

Short-sale volume as % of daily volume

19%22%26%30%Sep '26Sep '26Oct '26

Large-order net flow, last 20 sessions

Net of large-order buying minus selling, in USD. Over this window: −$2.91M (7 inflow days, 13 outflow days).

Net flow by order size, last 20 sessions

−$2.0MSuper−$869.2KBig−$2.1MMid−$3.1MSmall

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 13.7% of shares outstanding.

Largest holders

  • Sound Income Strategies, LLC5.26%
  • UBS Asset Management3.11%
  • Van Eck Associates Corporation2.49%
  • Invesco Capital Management LLC1.81%
  • Altshuler Shaham Ltd.1.04%
  • Diameter Capital Partners LP0.91%
  • Legal & General Investment Management0.82%
  • Morgan Stanley0.78%

By investor type

  • Mutual Fund19.01%
  • Hedge Fund1.62%
  • Public Company1.13%
  • Individual/Insider0.55%
  • Private Company0.43%
  • VC/PE Fund0.35%
  • Family Office/Trust0.13%
  • Bank/Investment Bank0.02%

Reported short interest has fallen from 4.24% to 3.97% of float over the last 6 biweekly reports (30 Jun 2026 to 15 Sep 2026).

Recent institutional activity

HolderTypePeriodShare changeNew stake
UBS Asset Management Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +1,066,870 3.1%
Van Eck Associates Corporation Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +668,394 2.5%
Putnam LLC Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +584,585 0.6%
Sound Income Strategies, LLC Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +281,807 5.3%
Morgan Stanley Public Company 2026/Q3 +175,904 0.8%
Citadel Advisors LLC Hedge Fund 2026/Q3 +173,041 0.2%
Independent Advisor Alliance, LLC Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +133,550 0.3%
Bank of America Corporation Public Company 2026/Q3 +109,075 0.2%
Curi Capital, LLC Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +60,000 0.1%
MQS Management, LLC Hedge Fund 2026/Q3 +49,574 0.0%
Legal & General Investment Management Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +45,737 0.8%
Accelerate Financial Technologies Inc. Hedge Fund 2026/Q3 +42,259 0.1%
GraniteShares Advisors LLC Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +39,575 0.3%
Naviter Wealth LLC Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +37,931 0.1%
Osaic Wealth, Inc. Private Company 2026/Q3 +29,268 0.2%

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

Insider transactions

DateInsiderTitleTransactionSharesPriceHeld after
11 May 2026 Jose Briones Partner & Director Open Market Acquisition +5,770 $8.67 356,084
10 Mar 2026 Richard Allorto Chief Financial Officer Open Market Acquisition +15,000 $8.15 25,000
18 Feb 2026 Jose Briones Partner & Director Open Market Acquisition +5,895 $8.48 350,314
30 Nov 2025 Jose Briones Partner & Director Open Market Acquisition +5,500 $9.10 344,419
20 May 2025 Jose Briones Partner & Director Open Market Acquisition +1,480 $10.13 338,919
13 May 2025 Jose Briones Partner & Director Open Market Acquisition +9,840 $10.16 337,439
4 Jun 2024 Jose Briones Partner & Director Open Market Acquisition +1,745 $11.40 327,599
29 May 2024 Richard Allorto Chief Financial Officer Open Market Acquisition +10,000 $11.30 10,000
27 May 2024 Jose Briones Partner & Director Open Market Acquisition +885 $11.33 325,668
12 May 2024 Jose Briones Partner & Director Open Market Acquisition +1,740 $11.48 324,783

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 dateShares short% of floatDays to cover
15 Sep 2026 3,941,058 4.0% 5.5
31 Aug 2026 3,825,233 3.9% 5.0
14 Aug 2026 4,023,719 4.1% 3.6
31 Jul 2026 4,231,890 4.3% 3.5
15 Jul 2026 4,265,721 4.3% 3.0
30 Jun 2026 4,206,880 4.2% 3.7

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