Insiders’ trades

13.651 percent.

(Note. When added, the percentages exceeded 100 percent by 0.018 because of the rounding of numbers.)

At the same time, Lopez Holdings said 8,599 Filipino stockholders paid for 3.998 billion LPZ common shares, or 86.349 percent.

The Lopezes are the majority stockholders of Lopez Holdings thru unlisted Lopez Inc., which the same GIS listed it as holder of 2.455 billion LPZ common shares or 53.025 percent.

Filipino- controlled

In a public ownership report (POR) dated June 30, 2018, Holcim Philippines listed its public stockholders as holders of 920.377 million Holcim common shares or 14.26 percent.

Holcim said it has three principal stockholders with combined holdings of 5.532 billion Holcim common shares or 85.74 percent. As the biggest stockholder, Union Cement Holdings Corp. owns 3.906 billion Holcim common shares or 60.55 percent.

- lion Holcim common shares or 18.11 percent and Cemco Holdings Inc., 456.69 million Holcim common shares or 7.08 percent. Union Cement also topped the list of Holcim’s top

However, Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co. Ltd. owned more Holcim common shares than Cemco. The top 100 list showed the Japanese company with 594.953 million Holcim common shares or 9.22 percent against Cemco’s 456.69 million Holcim common shares or 7.08 percent.

As record stockholder, PCD Nominee Corp.

held 160.829 million Holcim common shares or 2.49 percent, and 134.525 million Holcim common shares or 2.08 percent for foreigners and Filipinos, respectively.

In a consolidated quarterly financial filing, Holcim had total current assets of P13.444 billion against total current liabilities of P17.313 billion.

Due Diligencer’s take

It’s obvious that the acquisitions of additional VITA common shares by Kormasinc resulted from open market transactions. The identities of the sellers in a disclosure posted on the website of the Philippine Stock Exchange

The case of Lopez Holdings is another story. In an