PriceSmart Ownership
| PSMT Stock | USD 84.47 0.96 1.12% |
Shares in Circulation | First Issued 1996-12-31 | Previous Quarter 30 M | Current Value 30 M | Avarage Shares Outstanding 22.7 M | Quarterly Volatility 10.7 M |
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PriceSmart Stock Ownership Analysis
About 93.0% of the company shares are owned by institutional investors. The book value of PriceSmart was at this time reported as 38.76. The company has Price/Earnings To Growth (PEG) ratio of 1.94. PriceSmart last dividend was issued on the 15th of August 2025. PriceSmart, Inc. owns and operates U.S. style membership shopping warehouse clubs in the United States, Central America, the Caribbean, and Colombia. PriceSmart, Inc. was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. Pricesmart operates under Discount Stores classification in the United States and is traded on NASDAQ Exchange. It employs 10400 people. To find out more about PriceSmart contact the company at 858 404 8800 or learn more at https://www.pricesmart.com.Besides selling stocks to institutional investors, PriceSmart also allocates a substantial amount of its earnings to a pull of share-based compensation to be paid out to its employees, managers, executives, and members of the board of directors. Share-Based compensation (also sometimes called Stock-Based Compensation) is a way of paying different PriceSmart's stakeholders with equity in the business. It is typically used as a motivation factor for employees to contribute beyond their regular compensation (salary and bonus). It is also used as a tool to align PriceSmart's strategic interests with those of the company's shareholders. Shares issued to employees are usually subject to a vesting period before they are earned and sold.
PriceSmart Quarterly Liabilities And Stockholders Equity |
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PriceSmart Insider Trades History
About 8.0% of PriceSmart are currently held by insiders. Unlike PriceSmart's institutional investors, corporate insiders most likely have a limit on the maximum percentage of share ownership. This is done to align insiders' influence against PriceSmart's private investors even though both sides will benefit from rising prices or experience loss when the share price declines. The good rule to have in mind is that the maximum share ownership percentage of the corporate insiders should not surpass 25%. View all of PriceSmart's insider trades
PriceSmart Stock Institutional Investors
Have you ever been surprised when a price of an equity instrument such as PriceSmart is soaring high without any particular reason? This is usually happening because many institutional investors are aggressively trading PriceSmart backward and forwards among themselves. PriceSmart's institutional investor refers to the entity that pools money to purchase PriceSmart's securities or originate loans. Institutional investors include commercial and private banks, credit unions, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds, endowments, and mutual funds. Operating companies that invest excess capital in these types of assets may also be included in the term and may influence corporate governance by exercising voting rights in their investments.
| Shares | Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management Llc | 2024-12-31 | 439.8 K | Northern Trust Corp | 2024-12-31 | 354.7 K | Boston Partners Global Investors, Inc | 2024-12-31 | 297.7 K | Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co., Llc | 2024-12-31 | 289.1 K | Amvescap Plc. | 2024-12-31 | 287.3 K | Canada Pension Plan Investment Board | 2024-12-31 | 282 K | Morgan Stanley - Brokerage Accounts | 2024-12-31 | 272.9 K | Royal Bank Of Canada | 2024-12-31 | 271.2 K | Nitorum Capital, L.p. | 2024-12-31 | 258.6 K | Blackrock Inc | 2024-12-31 | 4 M | Vanguard Group Inc | 2024-12-31 | 3.4 M |
PriceSmart Insider Trading Activities
Some recent studies suggest that insider trading raises the cost of capital for securities issuers and decreases overall economic growth. Trading by specific PriceSmart insiders, such as employees or executives, is commonly permitted as long as it does not rely on PriceSmart's material information that is not in the public domain. Local jurisdictions usually require such trading to be reported in order to monitor insider transactions. In many U.S. states, trading conducted by corporate officers, key employees, directors, or significant shareholders must be reported to the regulator or publicly disclosed, usually within a few business days of the trade. In these cases PriceSmart insiders are required to file a Form 4 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) when buying or selling shares of their own companies.
PriceSmart Outstanding Bonds
PriceSmart issues bonds to finance its operations. Corporate bonds make up one of the largest components of the U.S. bond market, which is considered the world's largest securities market. PriceSmart uses the proceeds from bond sales for a wide variety of purposes, including financing ongoing mergers and acquisitions, buying new equipment, investing in research and development, buying back their own stock, paying dividends to shareholders, and even refinancing existing debt. Most PriceSmart bonds can be classified according to their maturity, which is the date when PriceSmart has to pay back the principal to investors. Maturities can be short-term, medium-term, or long-term (more than ten years). Longer-term bonds usually offer higher interest rates but may entail additional risks.
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PriceSmart Corporate Filings
8K | 3rd of March 2025 Report filed with the SEC to announce major events that shareholders should know about | ViewVerify |
| 14th of February 2025 Other Reports | ViewVerify | |
F4 | 12th of February 2025 The report filed by a party regarding the acquisition or disposition of a company's common stock, as well as derivative securities such as options, warrants, and convertible securities | ViewVerify |
10Q | 8th of January 2025 Quarterly performance report mandated by Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), to be filed by publicly traded corporations | ViewVerify |
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