shareholders
Company part-owners
Shareholders are the people or entities that own shares in a company.
Owning shares entitles them to a portion of the company's profits, typically through dividends, and usually grants voting rights on major corporate decisions.
The shareholders voted to approve the merger.
A company's leadership is technically accountable to its shareholders, though in practice this accountability varies widely.
Recurring yearly organizational assembly
- board of directorsGoverning body of organization
- proxy voteDelegated electoral choice
- corporate governanceCompany direction and control
- fiduciary dutyObligation to act loyally
voting rights · general assembly · AGM · chairperson · disclosure · transparency · executive compensation · quorum
Goods kept for sale
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
- holdingsProperty one owns
- portfolioCollected works or assets
- common stockBasic corporate ownership units
preferred stock · book value · market capitalization · dilution · appreciation · capital gains · stock options · vesting
Profit relative to cost
- riskPossibility of harm
- institutional investorEntity investing pooled capital
- retail investorNonprofessional who trades securities
- hedge fundPrivate investment partnership
long-term investment · pension fund · mutual fund · index fund · diversification · speculation · value investing · growth investing
Corporate profit share
- payoutMoney distributed to recipient
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- distributionAllocation across recipients
- ex-dividendAfter payout eligibility ends
payment date · dividend yield · retained earnings · stock split · buyback
annual meeting
Recurring yearly organizational assembly
- board of directorsGoverning body of organization
- proxy voteDelegated electoral choice
- corporate governanceCompany direction and control
fiduciary duty · voting rights · general assembly · AGM · chairperson · disclosure · transparency · executive compensation · quorum · bylaws
stock
Goods kept for sale
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
- holdingsProperty one owns
- portfolioCollected works or assets
common stock · preferred stock · book value · market capitalization · dilution · appreciation · capital gains · stock options · vesting · float
return on investment
Profit relative to cost
- riskPossibility of harm
- institutional investorEntity investing pooled capital
- retail investorNonprofessional who trades securities
long-term investment · hedge fund · pension fund · mutual fund · index fund · diversification · speculation · value investing · growth investing · activist investor
dividend
Corporate profit share
- payoutMoney distributed to recipient
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- distributionAllocation across recipients
ex-dividend · payment date · dividend yield · retained earnings · stock split · buyback
- ownershomeowner, homeowners, landowner, landlords, business owner
- investmentinvestor, foreign investment, financier, direct investment, backer
- business ownershipowner, sole proprietor, sole proprietorship, co-owner, proprietor
- corporate historyincorporation, chartered companies, limited liability, corporate law, mergers
- investorsinvestor, retail investors, retail investor, angel investors, institutional investors
- capitalismcapitalism, free market, free enterprise, private property, profit motive
shareholdersemployees
Paid staff members
workers · creditors · bondholders · debtholders · labor
shareholdersworkers
People doing jobs
employees · labor · proletariat · working class · rank and file
- shareholder meetingsGatherings of equity owners
- shareholder returnsProfits paid to owners
- shareholder valueEquity investor financial returns
- shareholder activismOwners pressuring management for change
- majority shareholderInvestor with voting control
- shareholders' meetingOwners' formal corporate gathering