In an August 2020 survey, 42 percent of the respondents said that they had money invested in the stock market. In 2019, over 46 percent of U.S. households owned mutual funds.

In 2024, ** percent of adults in the United States invested in the stock market. This figure has remained steady over the last few years, and is still below the levels before the Great Recession, when it peaked in 2007 at ** percent. What is the stock market? The stock market can be defined as a group of stock exchanges, where investors can buy shares in a publicly traded company. In more recent years, it is estimated an increasing number of Americans are using neobrokers, making stock trading more accessible to investors. Other investments A significant number of people think stocks and bonds are the safest investments, while others point to real estate, gold, bonds, or a savings account. Since witnessing the significant one-day losses in the stock market during the Financial Crisis, many investors were turning towards these alternatives in hopes for more stability, particularly for investments with longer maturities. This could explain the decrease in this statistic since 2007. Nevertheless, some speculators enjoy chasing the short-run fluctuations, and others see value in choosing particular stocks.

Graph and download economic data for Share of Corporate Equities and Mutual Fund Shares Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) (WFRBST01122) from Q3 1989 to Q1 2025 about mutual funds, wealth, equity, percentile, corporate, and USA.

In 2018, Sweden had the highest share of millennials who invested in stocks, when compared to the other Nordic countries. In detail, 88 percent of the male respondents owned stocks, while the same was true for 58 percent of the female respondents. During this period, both Norwegian and Finnish millennials followed the same pattern. Contrastingly, Danish millennials were investing less than their peers with 42 percent of female respondents and 46 percent of the male respondents owning stocks. However, the gender gap was significantly narrower in Denmark than in the other countries.

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Additional reference tables for ownership of quoted UK shares.

Indonesia Securities Ownership: Local: Equity data was reported at 1,800,335.290 IDR bn in Jul 2019. This records an increase from the previous number of 1,773,303.530 IDR bn for Jun 2019. Indonesia Securities Ownership: Local: Equity data is updated monthly, averaging 1,001,403.090 IDR bn from Aug 2009 (Median) to Jul 2019, with 119 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2,001,867.300 IDR bn in Jan 2018 and a record low of 354,144.780 IDR bn in Oct 2009. Indonesia Securities Ownership: Local: Equity data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Indonesia Financial Services Authority. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Indonesia – Table ID.ZB006: Financial Services Authority: Securities Ownership.

In 2024, around **** million people in Germany owned stocks.The Allensbach Market and Advertising Media Analysis (Allensbacher Markt- und Werbeträgeranalyse or AWA in German) determines attitudes, consumer habits and media usage of the population in Germany on a broad statistical basis.

Despite its importance for the analysis of life-cycle behavior and, in particular, retirement planning, stock ownership by private households is poorly understood. Among other approaches to investigate this puzzle, recent research has started to elicit private households' expectations of stock market returns. This paper reports findings from a study that collected data over a two-year period both on households' stock market expectations (subjective probabilities of gains or losses) and on whether they own stocks. We document substantial heterogeneity in financial market expectations. Expectations are correlated with stock ownership. Over the two years of our data, stock market prices increased, and expectations of future stock market price changes also increased, lending support to the view that expectations are influenced by recent stock gains or losses.

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Japan Share Ownership: Financial Institutions (FI) data was reported at 28.700 % in 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 28.400 % for 2017. Japan Share Ownership: Financial Institutions (FI) data is updated yearly, averaging 39.100 % from Mar 1986 (Median) to 2018, with 33 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 44.100 % in 1989 and a record low of 26.700 % in 2014. Japan Share Ownership: Financial Institutions (FI) data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Japan Exchange Group. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Japan – Table JP.Z003: All Stock Exchange: Percentage of Shareownership by investors .

Japan Share Ownership: Foreigners data was reported at 30.300 % in 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 30.100 % for 2017. Japan Share Ownership: Foreigners data is updated yearly, averaging 18.600 % from Mar 1986 (Median) to 2018, with 33 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 31.700 % in 2015 and a record low of 4.100 % in 1988. Japan Share Ownership: Foreigners data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Japan Exchange Group. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Japan – Table JP.Z003: All Stock Exchange: Percentage of Shareownership by investors .

Time series data - share register survey report.

Estonia was the European country with the highest percentage of total financial assets in equity in 2023. Over ** percent of total household financial assets in Estonia were placed in equity. Hungary had the ******-highest share among the European countries, reaching nearly ** percent.

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In 2023, 52 percent of the households in the United States owned shares in a mutual fund. This is a significant increase on the 5.7 percent recorded in 1980, but close to 46.3 percent found in 2013.Mutual fundsA mutual fund is a variety of collective investment vehicle, managed professionally that pools money from many investors in order to purchase securities. They play an important role in household finances in the United States of today, most notably in retirement planning. It is commonly applied only to the forms of collective investment that are regulated and are sold to the public at large. The majority of mutual funds are what is known as ‘open-ended’, meaning that shares can be bought or sold at anytime. There are a number of advantages associated with mutual funds as opposed to direct investment in individual securities. The nature of the fund as a collective investment vehicle provides increased diversification and ease of comparison to investors. The fact that they are managed professionally, and that the investment is pooled, enables participation in investments that would normally only be available to larger investors. Mutual funds are also stable in price as daily liquidity ensures minimum loss of value. Despite several advantages, as with every aspect of investment some disadvantages are to be taken into account. Fees are an inevitable part of a professionally managed fund, as is the inability to customize the investment. A common complains is also that the investor has less control over timing of the recognition of their gains.

Japan Share Ownership: Securities Companies data was reported at 2.000 % in 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 2.200 % for 2017. Japan Share Ownership: Securities Companies data is updated yearly, averaging 1.500 % from Mar 1986 (Median) to 2018, with 33 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2.300 % in 2014 and a record low of 0.600 % in 1999. Japan Share Ownership: Securities Companies data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Japan Exchange Group. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Japan – Table JP.Z003: All Stock Exchange: Percentage of Shareownership by investors .

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The latest Share Ownership report gives details of beneficial ownership of UK listed companies as at 31 December. This is provided in terms of National Accounts classifications.

Source agency: Office for National Statistics

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: share register survey

Introduction In the course of researching the common ownership hypothesis, we found a number of issues with the Thomson Reuters (TR) "S34" dataset used by many researchers and frequently accessed via Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS). WRDS has done extensive work to improve the database, working with other researchers that have uncovered problems, specifically fixing a lack of records of BlackRock holdings. However, even with the updated dataset posted in the summer of 2018, we discovered a number of discrepancies when accessing data for constituent firms of the S&P 500 Index. We therefore set out to separately create a dataset of 13(f) holdings from the source documents, which are all public and available electronically from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) website. Coverage is good starting in 1999, when electronic filing became mandatory. However, the SEC's Inspector General issued a critical report in 2010 about the information contained in 13(f) filings. The process: We gathered all 13(f) filings from 1999-2017 here. The corpus is over 318,000 filings and occupies ~25GB of space if unzipped. (We do not include the raw filings here as they can be downloaded from EDGAR). We wrote code to parse the filings to extract holding information using regular expressions in Perl. Our target list of holdings was all public firms with a market capitalization of at least $10M. From the header of the file, we first extract the filing date, reporting date, and reporting entity (Central Index Key, or CIK, and CIKNAME). Beginning with the September 30 2013 filing date, all filings were in XML format, which made parsing fairly straightforward, as all values are contained in tags. Prior to that date, the filings are remarkable for the heterogeneity in formatting. Several examples are linked to below. Our approach was to look for any lines containing a CUSIP code that we were interested in, and then attempting to determine the "number of shares" field and the "value" field. To help validate the values we extracted, we downloaded stock price data from CRSP for the filing date, as that allows for a logic check of (price * shares) = value. We do not claim that this will exhaustively extract all holding information. We can provide examples of filings that are formatted in such a way that we are not able to extract the relevant information. In both XML and non-XML filings, we attempt to remove any derivative holdings by looking for phrases such as OPT, CALL, PUT, WARR, etc. We then perform some final data cleaning: in the case of amended filings, we keep an amended level of holdings if the amended report a) occurred within 90 days of the reporting date and b) the initial filing fails our logic check described above. The resulting dataset has around 48M reported holdings (CIK-CUSIP) for all 76 quarters and between 4,000 and 7,000 CUSIPs and between 1,000 and 4,000 investors per quarter. We do not claim that our dataset is perfect; there are undoubtedly errors. As documented elsewhere, there are often errors in the actual source documents as well. However, our method seemed to produce more reliable data in several cases than the TR dataset, as shown in Online Appendix B of the related paper linked above. Included Files Perl Parsing Code (find_holdings_snp.pl). For reference, only needed if you wish to re-parse original filings. Investor holdings for 1999-2017: lightly cleaned. Each CIK-CUSIP-rdate is unique. Over 47M records. The fields are CIK: the central index key assigned by the SEC for this investor. Mapping to names is available below. CUSIP: the identity of the holdings. Consult the SEC's 13(f) listings to identify your CUSIPs of interest. shares: the number of shares reportedly held. Merging in CRSP data on shares outstanding at the CUSIP-Month level allows one to construct \beta. We make no distinction for the sole/shared/none voting discretion fields. If a researcher is interested, we did collect that starting in mid-2013, when filings are in XML format. rdate: reporting date (end of quarter). 8 digit, YYYYMMDD. fdate: filing date. 8 digit, YYYYMMDD. ftype: the form name. Notes: we did not consolidate separate BlackRock entities (or any other possibly related entities). If one wants to do so, use the CIK-CIKname mapping file below. We drop any CUSIP-rdate observation where any investor in that CUSIP reports owning greater than 50% of shares outstanding (even though legitimate cases exist - see, for example, Diamond Offshore and Loews Corporation). We also drop any CUSIP-rdate observation where greater than 120% of shares outstanding are reported to be held by 13(f) investors. Cases where the shares held are listed as zero likely mean the investor filing lists a holding for the firm but that our code could not find the number of shares due to the formatting of the file. We leave these in the data so that any researchers that find a zero know to go back to that source filing to manually gather the holdings for the securities they are interested in. Processed 13f holdings (airlines.parquet, cereal.parquet, out_scrape.parquet). These are used in our related AEJ:Microeconomics paper. The files contain all firms within the airline industry, RTE cereal industry, and all large cap firms (a superset of the S&P 500) respectively. These are a merged version of the scrape_parsed.csv file described above, that include the shares outstanding and percent ownership used to calculate measures of common ownership. These are distributed as brotli compressed Apache Parquet (binary) files. This preserves date information correctly. mgrno: manager number (which is actually CIK in the scraped data) rdate: reporting date ncusip: cusip rrdate: reportaing date in stata format mgrname: manager name shares: shares sole: shares with sole authority shared: shares with shared authority none: shares with no authority isbr/isfi/iss/isba/isvg: is this blackrock, statestreet, vanguard, barclay, fidelity numowners: how many owners prc: price at reporting date shares_out: shares outstanding at reporting date value: reported value in 13(f) beta: shares/shares_out permno: permno Profit weight values (i.e. \kappa) for all firms in the sample. (public_scrape_kappas_XXXX.parquet). Each file represents one year of data and is around 200MB and distributed as a compressed (brotli) parquet file. Fields are simply CUSIP_FROM, CUSIP_TO, KAPPA, QUARTER. Note that these have not been adjusted for multi-class share firms, insider holdings, etc. If looking at a particular market, some additional data cleaning on the investor holdings (above) followed by recomputing profit weights is recommended. For this, we did merge the separate BlackRock entities prior to computing \kappa. CIKmap.csv (~250K observations) Mapping is from CIK-rdate to CIKname. Use this if you want to consolidate holdings across reporting entities or explore the identities of reporting firms. In the case of amended filings that use different names than original ones, we keep the earliest name. Example of Parsing Challenge Prior to the XML era, filings were far from uniform, which creates a notable challenge for parsing them for holdings. In the examples directory we include several example text files of raw 13f filings. Example 1 is a "well behaved" filing, with CUSIP, followed by value, followed by number of shares, as recommended by the SEC. Example 2 shows a case where the ordering is changed: CUSIP, then shares, then value. The column headers show "item 5" coming before "item 4". Example 3 shows a case of a fixed width table, which in principle could be parsed very easily using the tags at the top, although not all filings consistently use these tags. Example 4 shows a case with a fixed width table, with no tag for the CUSIP column. Also, notice that if the firm holds more than 10M shares of a firm, that number occupies the entire width of the column and there is no longer a column separator (i.e. Cisco Systems on line 374). Example 5 shows a comma-separated table format. Example 6 shows a case of changing the column ordering, but also adding an (unrequired) column for share price. Example 7 shows a case where the table is split across subsequent pages, and so the CUSIP appears on a different line than the number of shares.