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Significantly high institutional ownership implies Domino's Pizza Group's stock price is sensitive to their trading actions The top 8 shareholders own 51% of the company Ownership research along with  analyst forecasts data  help provide a good understanding of opportunities in a stock

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To get a sense of who is truly in control of Domino's Pizza Group plc (LON:DOM), it is important to understand the ownership structure of the business. The group holding the most number of shares in the company, around 70% to be precise, is institutions. Put another way, the group faces the maximum upside potential (or downside risk).

Since institutional have access to huge amounts of capital, their market moves tend to receive a lot of scrutiny by retail or individual investors. As a result, a sizeable amount of institutional money invested in a firm is generally viewed as a positive attribute.

Let's delve deeper into each type of owner of Domino's Pizza Group, beginning with the chart below.

Check out our latest analysis for Domino's Pizza Group LSE:DOM Ownership Breakdown July 6th 2025

What Does The Institutional Ownership Tell Us About Domino's Pizza Group?

Institutions typically measure themselves against a benchmark when reporting to their own investors, so they often become more enthusiastic about a stock once it's included in a major index. We would expect most companies to have some institutions on the register, especially if they are growing.

As you can see, institutional investors have a fair amount of stake in Domino's Pizza Group. This implies the analysts working for those institutions have looked at the stock and they like it. But just like anyone else, they could be wrong. It is not uncommon to see a big share price drop if two large institutional investors try to sell out of a stock at the same time. So it is worth checking the past earnings trajectory of Domino's Pizza Group, (below). Of course, keep in mind that there are other factors to consider, too.LSE:DOM Earnings and Revenue Growth July 6th 2025

Since institutional investors own more than half the issued stock, the board will likely have to pay attention to their preferences. It would appear that 18% of Domino's Pizza Group shares are controlled by hedge funds. That catches my attention because hedge funds sometimes try to influence management, or bring about changes that will create near term value for shareholders. Our data shows that Capital Research and Management Company is the largest shareholder with 15% of shares outstanding. With 9.7% and 8.0% of the shares outstanding respectively, Abrams Capital Management, L.P. and Abdiel Capital Advisors, LP are the second and third largest shareholders.

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On further inspection, we found that more than half the company's shares are owned by the top 8 shareholders, suggesting that the interests of the larger shareholders are balanced out to an extent by the smaller ones.

While studying institutional ownership for a company can add value to your research, it is also a good practice to research analyst recommendations to get a deeper understand of a stock's expected performance. There are plenty of analysts covering the stock, so it might be worth seeing what they are forecasting, too.

Insider Ownership Of Domino's Pizza Group

While the precise definition of an insider can be subjective, almost everyone considers board members to be insiders. The company management answer to the board and the latter should represent the interests of shareholders. Notably, sometimes top-level managers are on the board themselves.

Most consider insider ownership a positive because it can indicate the board is well aligned with other shareholders. However, on some occasions too much power is concentrated within this group.

Our most recent data indicates that insiders own less than 1% of Domino's Pizza Group plc. It's a big company, so even a small proportional interest can create alignment between the board and shareholders. In this case insiders own UK£2.6m worth of shares. Arguably, recent buying and selling is just as important to consider. You can  click here to see if insiders have been buying or selling.

General Public Ownership

The general public-- including retail investors -- own 10% stake in the company, and hence can't easily be ignored. While this group can't necessarily call the shots, it can certainly have a real influence on how the company is run.

Next Steps:

It's always worth thinking about the different groups who own shares in a company. But to understand Domino's Pizza Group better, we need to consider many other factors. For example, we've discovered 3 warning signs for Domino's Pizza Group (1 is a bit concerning!) that you should be aware of before investing here.

But ultimately  it is the future, not the past, that will determine how well the owners of this business will do. Therefore we think it advisable to take a look at this free report showing whether analysts are predicting a brighter future.

NB: Figures in this article are calculated using data from the last twelve months, which refer to the 12-month period ending on the last date of the month the financial statement is dated. This may not be consistent with full year annual report figures.

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