Institutional Ownership

I checked out the detailed institutional ownership list a few months back, and again a few days ago, and noticed a few things I thought I'd share:

• A little over 15 million shares are held by institutions, representing about 29% of CNIT's 52.3M shares
• Morgan Stanley, who as of 3/31 only owned about 70k shares, drastically grew their investment in CNIT over the next few months, as they now own over 1.7M shares (>1,000%)
• Vanguard Group, on the contrary, had over 1.1M shares on 3/31 and by 6/31 had sold out of their position

Here are the top 10 institutional investors:

For the full list, check out the detailed institutional holdings section on the Nasdaq website.

It's very important for small caps to have a large amount of institutional investors (showing trust in the company's growth and operations) as well as a large amount of insider investment. While institutional investment hasn't grown, it is still reasonably high at around 30%, which is a positive sign. How much of the recent selling (after earnings) was institutional I do not know.