what is the institiution sales?

Question

how does this work?

Answer 1

institutional sales are large-scale sales, mostly to corporations. This is as opposed to retail sales where the seller merely sells items per piece. Institutional sales are bulk-sales where the buyer almost always gets a good discount.

the standard retail price is normally paid by a retail consumer, while the institutional buyer gets a discount from the standard retail price.

Answer 2

institution sale is related to corporate sales. Where the product is made available to the employees of organization or the organization itself. But the product may need not be usefull for the client oprganization's business.
For example: selling insurance cover to all the employees of the organization or selling investment plan to the organization itself.

Selling packed milk to hotels. (product needed in the business of employee)

Institutional sales has advantage of bulk business over ratail business.

Answer 3

I believe the institutions refer to the big mutual funds that buy many shares of stock at a time, and are a major factor in what the stock market does.

On CNBC you can look up what the institutions are buying.

I use this information when determining whether to buy or sell a stock.

Answer 4

When you talk about institutional traders, those are the large entities like mutual funds, hedge funds, banks, etc. They are large volume traders that have hundreds of millions of dollars at their disposal and trade for the institution. The trading desk of Deutschebank will buy/sell for the bank, the hedge funds for their accounts and same for the mutual funds.

In basic terms, it's an entity (corporate, etc.) that invests in the markets.