Safe Bulkers Ownership | Who Owns Safe Bulkers?

Safe Bulkers Ownership Summary

Safe Bulkers is owned by 2.94% institutional investors, 50.40% insiders, and 46.66% retail investors. Renaissance is the largest institutional shareholder, holding 3.41% of SB shares. Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF is the top mutual fund, with 1.31% of its assets in Safe Bulkers shares.

SB Ownership Benchmark

Type	Name	% Inst	% Insiders	% Retail
Stock	Safe Bulkers	2.94%	50.40%	46.66%
Sector	Industrials Stocks	47.66%	12.56%	39.78%
Industry	Marine Shipping Stocks	13.63%	30.51%	55.87%

Institutional Shareholders

Top Institutional Shareholders by Total Shares

Holder	Shares	% Holding	Value
Renaissance	3.49M	3.41%	$16.82M
Blackrock	3.62M	3.28%	$21.07M
Blackrock funding, inc. /de	3.15M	3.08%	$15.20M
Goldman sachs group	2.65M	2.59%	$12.78M
Lsv asset management	1.96M	1.92%	$9.47M
Arrowstreet capital, limited partnership	1.76M	1.72%	$7.84M
State street	1.66M	1.62%	$7.36M
American century companies	1.64M	1.60%	$7.26M
Ameriprise financial	1.30M	1.27%	$5.76B
Bridgeway capital management	1.15M	1.12%	$5.11M

Top Institutional Shareholders by % of Total Assets

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Value
Denali advisors	953.07K	0.51%	$4.59M
Manatuck hill partners	225.00K	0.33%	$999.00K
Sage investment counsel	25.00K	0.13%	$120.50K
Bridgeway capital management	1.15M	0.11%	$5.11M
E fund management (hong kong)	55.11K	0.11%	$323.47K
Gsa capital partners llp	213.61K	0.09%	$1.03M
Koss-olinger consulting	146.93K	0.05%	$708.00K
Emc capital management	21.15K	0.04%	$76.00K
Sherbrooke park advisers	15.49K	0.03%	$68.80K
Aristides capital	33.44K	0.03%	$161.18K

Top Buyers

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change
Goldman sachs group	2.65M	0.00%	617.71K
American century companies	1.64M	0.00%	194.28K
D. e. shaw	181.47K	0.00%	181.47K
Millennium management	288.54K	0.00%	162.35K
Boothbay fund management	141.67K	0.01%	141.67K

Top Sellers

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change
Scion asset management	-	-	-400.00K
Marshall wace, llp	-	-	-248.86K
Gsa capital partners llp	213.61K	0.09%	-222.54K
Hrt financial lp	23.05K	0.00%	-201.90K
Blackrock funding, inc. /de	3.15M	0.00%	-201.39K

New Positions

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change	Value
Boothbay fund management	141.67K	0.01%	141.67K	$629.03K
Campbell & co investment adviser	117.03K	0.03%	117.03K	$564.07K
Walleye capital	104.36K	0.00%	104.36K	$463.36K
Segall bryant & hamill	82.27K	0.00%	82.27K	$365.26K
Prelude capital management	64.79K	0.02%	64.79K	$287.68K

Sold Out

Holder	Change
National bank of canada /fi/	-6.00
Federated hermes	-6.00
Nelson, van denburg & campbell wealth management group	-14.00
Allspring global investments	-21.00
Fortitude family office	-25.00

Institutional Ownership Trends

Date	Holdings	Change %	Shares	Change %	Ownership	Change %	Increased Position	Change %	Decreased Position	Change %
Dec 31, 2025	30	-77.94%	3,010,131	-90.07%	2	0.34%	11	-82.81%	12	-74.47%
Sep 30, 2025	51	-60.47%	6,216,940	-79.24%	6	0.71%	21	-64.41%	16	-66.67%
Jun 30, 2025	127	-9.29%	29,884,371	-1.88%	29	3.56%	58	-24.68%	47	11.90%
Mar 31, 2025	139	4.51%	30,456,115	2.41%	28	3.69%	76	15.15%	42	-6.67%
Dec 31, 2024	128	-6.57%	28,011,747	-6.71%	26	3.32%	65	-5.80%	40	-11.11%

Top Mutual Funds Shareholders

Holder	Shares	% Holding	Change
Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF	1.34M	1.31%	-
iShares Russell 2000 ETF	1.28M	1.25%	-84.71K
Acadian Emerging Markets Small-Cap Comp	988.04K	0.93%	305.67K
Columbia Small Cap Value Discv A	913.40K	0.89%	913.40K
Columbia Small Cap Value Discovery Fund	904.00K	0.88%	21.30K
Columbia Small Cap Value I A	882.70K	0.86%	24.20K
Columbia Small Cap Value I	858.50K	0.84%	181.00
EA Bridgeway Omni Small-Cap Value ETF	663.12K	0.65%	663.12K
Goldman Sachs Small Cp Val Insghts Instl	597.08K	0.58%	-
Fidelity Small Cap Index	575.09K	0.56%	-684.00

Insider Transactions Trends

Date	Buy	Sell
2026 Q1	-	-

SB Ownership FAQ

Who Owns Safe Bulkers?

Safe Bulkers shareholders are primarily institutional investors at 2.94%, followed by 50.40% insiders and 46.66% retail investors. The average institutional ownership in Safe Bulkers's industry, Marine Shipping Stocks, is 13.63%, which Safe Bulkers falls below.

Who owns the most shares of Safe Bulkers?

Safe Bulkers’s largest shareholders are Renaissance (3.49M shares, 3.41%), Blackrock (3.62M shares, 3.28%), and Blackrock funding, inc. /de (3.15M shares, 3.08%). Together, they hold 9.77% of Safe Bulkers’s total shares outstanding.

Does Blackrock own Safe Bulkers?

Yes, BlackRock owns 3.28% of Safe Bulkers, totaling 3.62M shares as of Jun 2024. This represents 0.00% of BlackRock's total assets, with a market value of 21.07M$. In the last quarter, BlackRock decreased its holdings by -76.66K shares, a -2.07% change.

Who is Safe Bulkers’s biggest shareholder by percentage of total assets invested?

Denali advisors is Safe Bulkers’s biggest shareholder by percentage of total assets invested, with 0.51% of its assets in 953.07K Safe Bulkers shares, valued at 4.59M$.

Who is the top mutual fund holder of Safe Bulkers shares?

Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF is the top mutual fund holder of Safe Bulkers shares, with 1.31% of its total shares outstanding invested in 1.34M Safe Bulkers shares.

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