[quickthrowman]

> It would seem we would gain a lot from greater transparency in who owns shares.

Major KODK shareholders: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/KODK/holders?p=KODK

Retail holds a small percent of pretty much anything, institutions dwarf retail.

[an_opabinia]

Almost all of those institutions are holding shares on behalf of normal "retail" people, not professional investors. The statistic you are seeing is both in support of the claim of how much retail is a bagholder and in support of the claim that the word "institutional" is misunderstood.