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Shell SHEL

US equityMarket cap rank #52Oil & Gas IntegratedSafe-Haven Assets
$99.09 −$1.03 (-1.03%)
Market closed · Nov 6, 10:30 pm ET · Last extended-hours $99.99 +0.91%
Open$98.48
Prev close$100.12
Day range$98.31 – $99.92
Volume6.45M
Market cap$280.69B
P/E (TTM)8.6
Dividend yield3.05%

Ownership & positioning

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

Institutional ownership69.9%-2.89 pts vs. prior quarter
Institutions holding2,295+63 vs. prior quarter
Short interest0.68% of floatDays to cover 2.7 · as of 15 Oct 2026
Short-sale volume share19.5%5-day average of daily volume

Short-sale volume as % of daily volume

14%19%25%30%Sep '26Oct '26Nov '26

Large-order net flow, last 20 sessions

Net of large-order buying minus selling, in USD. Over this window: −$33.62M (7 inflow days, 13 outflow days).

Net flow by order size, last 20 sessions

+$17.0MSuper−$50.6MBig−$10.5MMid−$10.9MSmall

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 19.6% of shares outstanding.

Largest holders

  • BlackRock8.22%
  • Vanguard Capital Management, LLC3.96%
  • FMR3.27%
  • Norges Bank Investment Management2.38%
  • Royal Dutch Shell plc, Shareview Clients1.80%
  • State Street Global Advisors1.79%
  • Capital Research1.71%
  • UBS Asset Management1.42%

By investor type

  • Mutual Fund54.69%
  • Private Company5.08%
  • Sovereign Wealth Fund4.35%
  • Public Company2.25%
  • Government Pension Fund1.44%
  • Hedge Fund1.10%
  • Corporate Pension Plan0.41%
  • Family Office/Trust0.22%

Reported short interest has fallen from 0.97% to 0.68% of float over the last 6 biweekly reports (31 Jul 2026 to 15 Oct 2026).

Recent institutional activity

HolderTypePeriodShare changeNew stake
Capital Research Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +21,334,042 1.7%
HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +10,116,289 1.1%
J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Inc. Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +10,011,272 1.3%
BlackRock Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +9,861,037 8.2%
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Public Company 2026/Q3 +5,667,240 0.2%
Orbis Investment Management Limited Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +4,733,726 0.3%
Renaissance Technologies Corp. Hedge Fund 2026/Q3 +2,695,452 0.1%
Holocene Advisors, LP Hedge Fund 2026/Q3 +2,633,066 0.1%
The Toronto-Dominion Bank Public Company 2026/Q3 +2,334,381 0.1%
State Street Global Advisors Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +2,181,617 1.8%
Wellington Management Group Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +1,814,391 0.7%
Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +1,764,737 0.8%
Citadel Advisors LLC Hedge Fund 2026/Q3 +1,620,411 0.1%
J O Hambro Capital Management Limited Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +1,462,004 0.1%
Morgan Stanley Public Company 2026/Q3 +1,335,494 0.2%

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

Short interest, by report

Report dateShares short% of floatDays to cover
15 Oct 2026 19,394,704 0.7% 2.7
30 Sep 2026 20,476,633 0.7% 3.4
15 Sep 2026 19,927,390 0.7% 2.8
31 Aug 2026 23,218,005 0.8% 4.1
14 Aug 2026 23,681,421 0.9% 4.2
31 Jul 2026 26,907,719 1.0% 3.6

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