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That article on Investopedia is from 2021, before the Microsoft acquisition. Activision-Blizzard is no longer a publicly-traded company and instead a subsidiary
by zythyx 6mo ago
That article on Investopedia is from 2021, before the Microsoft acquisition. Activision-Blizzard is no longer a publicly-traded company and instead a subsidiary of Microsoft. Whatever Microsoft wants under this arrangement is what they'll get from now on.
- cylemons 6mo agoMicrosoft itself is 73% owned by institutional investors, so more of the same really. see: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/msft/institutional-holdings https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/msft/instituti...
- lenerdenator 6mo agoI forgot about that. Fair point. Though the ownership of most large publicly traded companies more-or-less follows the same pattern. You have: * the people who got in on the ground floor (typically executives) who are given stock options as their compensation, who have a plurality of the shares. Maybe majority holders, maybe not. * institutional investors who typically use shares to back retirement accounts, whether they be acting for individuals or larger clients like pension funds * retail bag holde... I mean... retail investors. This also holds for Microsoft.