TABLE 1.  Employer Stock Held in Pension Plans: Comparison by Plan Type and Whether Company is Publicly-held
Based on federal Form 5500 data for all large pension plans (100+ participants) for FY98 (latest data available)
from Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. Excludes terminated plans and those not reporting assets.
Compiled by Prof. Douglas Kruse, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University, Feb. 2002  
  Number of Number of Total employer Employer Total plan Employer stock
  plans participants stock held by stock per assets as pct.of
  plans (millions) participant (millions) total assets
      (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
All defined contribution plans
All   50,769 50,933,238 $330,529.6 $6,489 $1,671,703.6 19.8%
Privately-held   46,664 30,609,811 $73,346.0 $2,396 $753,571.8 9.7%
Publicly-held   4,105 20,323,427 $257,183.6 $12,655 $918,131.8 28.0%
 
ESOP non-401(k) plans  
All   2,056 3,170,045 $53,677.1 $16,933 $69,635.8 77.1%
Privately-held   1,672 1,291,957 $26,358.4 $20,402 $34,900.0 75.5%
Publicly-held   384 1,878,088 $27,318.7 $14,546 $34,735.7 78.6%
 
ESOP 401(k) plans  
All   613 4,757,356 $129,609.8 $27,244 $332,712.8 39.0%
Privately-held   331 770,202 $10,310.1 $13,386 $29,110.1 35.4%
Publicly-held   282 3,987,154 $119,299.6 $29,921 $303,602.7 39.3%
 
Non-ESOP 401(k)'s with employer stock
All   2,275 11,037,790 $132,899.4 $12,040 $472,176.1 28.1%
Privately-held   1,141 3,183,154 $31,794.0 $9,988 $115,436.7 27.5%
Publicly-held   1,134 7,854,636 $101,105.4 $12,872 $356,739.4 28.3%
 
Non-ESOP 401(k)'s without employer stock
All   36,832 23,474,392 $0 $0 $567,223.1 0.0%
Privately-held   35,013 18,887,780 $0 $0 $419,586.3 0.0%
Publicly-held   1,819 4,586,612 $0 $0 $147,636.9 0.0%
 
Profit sharing and other defined
contribution plans with employer stock
(non-ESOP non-401(k))  
All   355 1,377,825 $14,343.3 $10,410 $47,501.5 30.2%
Privately-held   227 749,471 $4,883.4 $6,516 $20,111.4 24.3%
Publicly-held   128 628,354 $9,459.9 $15,055 $27,390.1 34.5%
 
Profit sharing and other defined
contribution plans without employer stock
All   8,633 7,115,015 $0 $0 $182,432.0 0.0%
Privately-held   8,275 5,726,432 $0 $0 $134,404.9 0.0%
  Publicly-held   358 1,388,583 $0 $0 $48,027.1 0.0%
Note: Employer stock figures include imputations of employer stock in common/collective trusts based on 1996 spread files.