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I don't know if this means anything, or if its related to the TH, but i swear that the Vanguard Group holdings rose by about 10 million shares, since I last looked a few hours earlier tonight?
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Hi Humble Genius,
would you be willing to put money on the accuracy of your recollection, though?
I am asking for a reason:
On https://www.morningstar.com/stocks/xasx/brn/ownership
it looks as though The Vanguard Group, Inc. already owned 41,861,914 BRN shares as of June 30. Provided the Morningstar info is correct, this means they would have added just over 100,000 this month so far, unless they sold a fair amount of shares sometime earlier this month and just bought back in?
But hang on:
I just noticed the FT screenshot posted earlier by @BrainShit in the Institutional Ownership thread, which claims The Vanguard Group, Inc. owned a total of 48.62 million shares as of July 4, a difference of more than 6.75 million compared to the 41.86 million as of June 30, listed in the Morningstar screenshot above.
Weirdly, though, the number of shares recently bought is equally stated to be 17.56 million.
While it is theoretically possible, The Vanguard Group, Inc. could have purchased those extra shares between July 1-4, the identical info on both websites that 17.56 million shares were recently added to our top institutional investor’s already very large position was too much of a coincidence for me to stop digging.
So here is my wild guess: Did someone at FT by any chance mistakenly drop the second digit (1), as lo and behold, 41,861,914 then miraculously becomes 48,619,140 which can be rounded to 48.62 million?
Oh, and it appears somebody took your “I swear that…” for a fact - unless that German X poster happened to make the exact same observation you described, which I consider rather unlikely though, as it appears to be your very own screenshot (complete with the green ellipse) that got copied and pasted, given a highlighter treatment and then got reposted…
I wonder if anyone already commented on X. Not being registered on X myself, I was able to open this specific link (although it does not always work with other X links, as I am usually asked to register first), but alas I can no longer read any potential comments the way I was able to when the platform was still called Twitter.
Anyway, a prime example of the evolution of a rumour, if you ask me…