Promoter holding tracker: what to look for

A promoter holding tracker follows how much of a listed company its promoter group owns, and how that stake moves over time. The data comes from the quarterly shareholding pattern that companies file with the stock exchanges under SEBI LODR Regulation 31. Read on 29 September 2026, Regulation 31(1)(b) gives companies twenty one days from the quarter end, so the patterns for the quarter ending 30 September 2026 are due by 21 October 2026. A good promoter holding tracker turns those filings into a dated, sourced view of the promoter stake, the change from one quarter end to the next, and how much of it is pledged or otherwise encumbered.

Where does a promoter holding tracker get its data?

Every listed company files a shareholding pattern each quarter, and it must reach the exchanges within 21 days of quarter-end.

That filing breaks ownership into promoter and public, and within promoter into individuals and bodies corporate. The pledge and encumbrance columns sit in the same filing, and the promoter's own event disclosures under SEBI's takeover code add the dates between quarter ends.

Why the promoter figure is a group total

The headline promoter number is the total for the Promoter and Promoter Group, not for the founder alone. Regulation 31(4) requires every entity in the promoter and promoter group to be disclosed separately in the pattern on the exchanges' websites, and the summary adds them up. NSE's own shareholding-pattern list, read 29 September 2026, carries one combined promoter and promoter group percentage per filing. A family member moving shares to a family trust inside the group can leave the total unchanged, so the group line and the named entities under it are worth reading together.

Compare quarter end with quarter end

Regulation 31(1) also asks for a pattern one day before listing and within ten days of a capital restructuring that moves the paid-up capital by more than two per cent. Those filings are not quarter ends. A tracker that diffs a listing-day or restructuring pattern against the next quarterly one reports a change that spans an odd period, so the clean comparison is 30 June 2026 against 30 September 2026. Flock's Smart Money Report for Q2 FY27 ranks the changes as patterns are filed, 1 to 21 October 2026.

What a promoter holding tracker should show

Since the data is public, the value of a tracker is in how cleanly it handles it. Look for these:

Why pledging sits next to holding

A promoter's stake and the pledged part of it are two different things, and both matter. A promoter can hold a large stake while having pledged much of it as collateral. SAST Regulation 31 asks the promoter to disclose a pledge, its invocation or its release within seven working days, but a proviso in force since 1 April 2022 switches that duty off where the encumbrance is undertaken in a depository (SAST Regulations, 2011, consolidated to 5 December 2025, read 29 September 2026). So a missing event filing does not prove there is no pledge, and the quarterly pattern is the fuller record. See what promoter pledging is and how to check promoter pledging for the detail. A tracker that shows holding without pledging tells only half the story.

How current is the data?

The shareholding pattern is a quarterly snapshot, filed within 21 days of quarter-end, so it is not live. Event disclosures of pledges, where they are filed, are more timely. Either way, the filing date is the thing to check first. A promoter holding tracker is only as good as that date. Flock reads these public disclosures, keeps each promoter figure dated and source-linked, and shows the change over time. What any change means for your own decision is your call to make.