How would I find out if someone owns stock in a company?

Question

How would I find out if someone owns stock in a company?

Answer 1

Unless they own more than 5 percent of the company, they are an officer of the company or a mutual fund or institution there is no way of knowing.  Furthermore most stock is held in street name, their brokers name.

Answer 2

Unless you a stock holder and soliciting proxy information you can not obtain a list of stockholders

A stockholders list is not public information and as such no one is entitled to the names that listed as stockholders.

Answer 3

Unless they're an insider it's none of your dam business.

Answer 4

Phone the company registrars (UK) or transfer agent (US). You will need the shareholder with you to give you authority. Otherwise you need to do a bit of bluffing. Otherwise write to company requesting a full list of shareholders (About £25 depending on number of shareholders)

Answer 5

It sort of depends on who that someone is.  This site will provide that information on those someones who have a large position in companies or are insiders.  If you are looking for information on whether you neighbor owns stock in a company, most likely you will not be able to find out.

http://www.gurufocus.com/InsiderBuy.php