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Breaking: Whales are quietly buying 23% more of this small-cap that could 23X in value. Institutions loaded up on $ROOT insurance in Q2 while the stock was flat or down. According to 13F data, institutions increased their stake by 23% in just one quarter, adding over 2 million shares, now holding 10.85 million shares, or 70.4% of the outstanding float. This is the highest institutional ownership ever. NP filings show another 25%+ of the float is owned. Add insiders with 10% ownership (Founder & CEO with 1.14 million shares), and the public float is almost gone. With such a small float, any news or buying could send $ROOT soaring. More institutions are getting in, with 57 creating new positions and 83 increasing their stakes, a 151.52% rise year-over-year. Notable moves include: -T Rowe Price adding 129,534 shares, now holding 809,230 -Citadel buying calls for 167,400 shares, total 292,500 -Capital Research Global Investors adding 127,684 shares, now at 496,598 -Ensign Peak Advisors entering with 264,354 shares -Morgan Stanley doubling their stake, adding 108,699 shares to 205,652 -Blackrock increasing their stake by 99,873 shares, now at 744,267 -Norges Bank starting with 86,577 shares -Goldman Sachs adding 53,000 shares, now at 87,470 -Vanguard increasing their stake by 45,922 shares, now at 575,477 $ROOT is revolutionizing the industry with leading prices, loss ratios, and AI/automation. It identifies risks better than others, boosting profits, making it 2x+ more efficient than legacy insurers. Big players are partnering with $ROOT, now having over 20 partners, including Hyundai, Goosehead, Carvana, and Experian. Since its public launch in Q4, $ROOT has onboarded 7,000 agents and 1,500 agencies in just 2.5 quarters, aiming for half the market in a few years, with $ROOT underwriting millions in policies or billions in revenue growth, valuing it over $60B or $4,000 PPS. $ROOT is trading at a fraction of its worth at $1.39B market cap. Institutions are buying aggressively, while retail investors remain unaware of $ROOT's disruption compared to legacy insurers Geico, Progressive, and State Farm. Legacy insurers have forward PEG values of 1-3+, while $ROOT has a forward PEG of.1. $ROOT could 10X today and still have cheaper forward PEG values. The $ROOT takeover is happening, with a $2,074+ price target from a DCF analysis using a 15% discount rate.
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