Correlations at other times in the sample period (not shown in the table) are similar. Overall, it appears that firms with weaker shareholder rights tend to be large S&P firms with relatively high share prices, institutional ownership and trading volume, relatively poor sales growth, and poor stock-market performance. The 1990s were a time of rising activism by institutional investors and more attention to governance provisions; thus, we might expect to see some reduction in the institutional ownership of high-G firms. In untabulated tests, we find no evidence of such a reduction, with both pairwise correlations and multivariate analysis suggesting no robust relationship between G and changes in institutional ownership.