sellingWith low volume today, so far, and EDV doing quite alot better than GDX for the first time in a while, maybe the selling is over, or at least taking a break.
According to my calculations , which I don't guarantee are correct, but kind of think they are, Blackrock has sold about 7 million shares since Jan 1 2022 to Feb 28, 2022. That equals 175,000 shares per trading day for those two months. Their percent holding seems to be down from 10.7% at the start of the year , to 7.8% as of Feb 28. No idea what they have done in March, but by the price action and number of shares traded in March so far, it would appear they kept selling, and perhaps at an even brisker pace. In a mostly lightly traded stock like EDV, 175,000 a day would have a big impact.
The biggist risk to EDV share price has always seemed to be the price of gold, followed by the West Africa risk thing. But maybe a big risk is the concentrated ownership. La Mancha has always been very solid and no reason to think that will change. Now with Blackrock reducing their %, and I am very curious what it will be next time EDV updates the holdings %s, that removes some risk. GDX is now the largest holder, after La Mancha, and GDX is strictly gold price driven. I would feel better if retail held something like 25%, instead of a paltry 5%.