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Skyward Specialty Insurance SKWD

US equityMarket cap rank #2638Insurance - Property & Casualty
$55.19 +$0.18 (+0.33%)
Pre-market · Oct 6, 4:20 am ET · After hours $55.19 0.00%
Open$55.01
Prev close$55.01
Day range$54.81 – $55.50
Volume218.7K
Market cap$2.45B
P/E (TTM)12.8
Dividend yield–

Ownership & positioning

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

Institutional ownership91.1%+0.33 pts vs. prior quarter
Institutions holding288+0 vs. prior quarter
Insider trades (recent)32 buys / 18 sellsNet buying
Short interest4.73% of floatDays to cover 5.2 · as of 15 Sep 2026
Short-sale volume share16.1%5-day average of daily volume

Short-sale volume as % of daily volume

9%13%17%21%Sep '26Sep '26Oct '26

Large-order net flow, last 20 sessions

Net of large-order buying minus selling, in USD. Over this window: +$408.5K (8 inflow days, 12 outflow days).

The five largest holders on file together own 31.7% of shares outstanding.

Largest holders

  • BlackRock8.28%
  • Reinhart Partners, LLC6.52%
  • James Hays6.35%
  • T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.6.07%
  • Invesco Ltd.4.51%
  • Vanguard Capital Management, LLC4.29%
  • Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC3.63%
  • Westwood Management Corp.2.87%

By investor type

  • Mutual Fund83.57%
  • Individual/Insider8.59%
  • Hedge Fund3.61%
  • Public Company1.62%
  • Government Pension Fund1.16%
  • Private Company0.53%
  • Family Office/Trust0.36%
  • Sovereign Wealth Fund0.16%

Reported short interest has held roughly steady near 4.73% 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 2,100,647 4.7% 5.2
31 Aug 2026 2,039,285 4.6% 5.3
14 Aug 2026 1,772,732 4.0% 3.2
31 Jul 2026 1,800,942 4.4% 3.8
15 Jul 2026 2,056,705 5.1% 3.1
30 Jun 2026 1,923,269 4.7% 2.4

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