12/1/2023 Estimated DRS count: 76,261,272 ((using today's DRSbot total + fix inadvertent DRSbot offline or resets) x 4.175)
The 4.175 multiplier comes from 8/31/2023 Form 10-Q divided by DRSbot 8/31/2023 total: 75,400,000 / 18,059,540 = 4.175
Bloomberg data (to 9/11/2023), DRS estimated counts, and other:
Holding
Number of shares
As of
ETFs
29,138,064
9/8/2023
MFs, Index Funds, Pension Funds, etc
33,999,059
9/8/2023
Other Institutional Ownership
32,373,815
9/8/2023
Insiders Stagnant
14,339,510
9/8/2023
Insiders
38,540,578
9/11/2023
DRS'd - 200k Computershare accounts
76,261,272
12/1/2023
Non-DRS - 200k acct 25% stuck in IRA
19,065,318
12/1/2023
Other
61,523,678
12/1/2023
Total Outstanding on 8/31/2023 and 10/12/2023: 305,241,294
Thank you to lawsondt for the Bloomberg data to 9/8/2023.
"Non-DRS - 200k acct 25% stuck in IRA" is a conservative percentage. The Google share count surveys have suggested the 200k Computershare accounts have 30-40% additional shares stuck in IRAs.
"Fix inadvertent DRSbot offline or resets" is primarily whale #1's 1,389,665 DRS shares (11/21/2023). Long story of switching subs and losing their DRS share count. So added the "fix inadvertent" column to capture their DRS shares.
Discussion points:
It seems "odd" on some of the DRS count fluctuations since the beginning.
It seems "odd" on recent DRS count stagnating (excluding the Mainstar rugpull of 1.27 million shares). From a very simplistic view assuming 200,000 Computershare accounts:
Buy X number of shares a month
Multiply by 3 months per quarter
Total DRS per quarter if 100,000 active accounts
Total DRS per quarter if 200,000 active accounts
1
3
300,000
600,000
2
6
600,000
1,200,000
3
9
900,000
1,800,000
4
12
1,200,000
2,400,000
5
15
1,500,000
3,000,000
The April 2023 List of stockholders DRS numbers seem correct and line up with SEC filings.
Possible some investors have had to un-DRS.
Possible economic slowdown has reduced investor purchasing power.
Possible whale investors who helped inflate DRS numbers alot, have dramatically slowed down their purchasing.
Tinfoil - forces inflating DRS shares 9 to 12 months back, then draining their DRS shares later. Probably spread across say 3,000 accounts to make it seem like normal activity.
Tinfoil - possible something funny with SEC filing reported number.
There is the recent post from sister sub, google search on: Deep analysis on Computershare recurring buys reddit
He examines the bi-weekly recurring Computershare buys. If say average $1.2 million spent per bi-weekly purchase, and say $14 a share, multiply by 6 for one GME quarter:
1,200,000 / 14 = 85,714 shares * 6 = 514,284
The 6 recurring buys alone should add 514,284 DRS shares.