- Dividends will be sent to shareholders on March 31.
- The company's shareholders have voted to remove the executive board.
- The company secretary has written to all the shareholders to apologize for the mistake.
- Existing shareholders subscribed to only 49% of the new share issue.
- The shareholders are planning to wrest control of the company away from the current directors.
Meaning of shareholder in English
shareholder | American Dictionary
shareholder | Business English
It has not been demonstrated that good environmental and social practices create value for shareholders, but it is clear that bad ones can destroy it.
Examples of shareholder
shareholder
Even under limited liability, therefore, shareholders of corporations that take greater risks will be "penalized" with higher interest rates on corporate borrowing.
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It clearly is not exactly the same as a business - we do not have shareholders that want financial return!
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It was the distribution of the ' surplus ' to non-producing shareholders which aroused trade union anger, rather than the creation of profits themselves.
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Here the breweries had to negotiate a global industry while retaining home support from patriotic customers and shareholders.
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According to critics of the sector these profits were used to enrich the companies' shareholders through the payment of high dividends.
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Corporate directors apparently succeeded in their efforts to maximise profits for their shareholders, fulfilling their primary responsibility as managers of a capitalist enterprise.
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These fortunate circumstances meant that the company could pay its shareholders their capital back and even distribute a per annum dividend of 2 per cent.
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But we do have shareholders that have expectations of return, that of a high quality medical service.
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Superintendents of individual-run, enterprise-run and shareholder-run homes are more likely to describe the linkage as 'guidance'.
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Under existing arrangements, companies paid income tax at the standard rate on all their profits, and the dividends paid to shareholders showed this tax deducted.
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Shareholder-run units are formed by a number of investors jointly contributing capital divided into shares; the funding source is mainly private.
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Therefore, shareholders have two instruments to overcome perks from the manager.
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We know that pension funds are not yet large shareholders of publicly traded firms in developing countries.
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Alternatively, shareholders appoint one of their cohort to manage the firm, realizing that his or her preferences over future consumption are identical to their own.
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These transfers can be between the sponsoring company of a fund (shareholders) and the fund participants.
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Collocations with shareholder
shareholder
These are words often used in combination with shareholder.
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employee shareholder
Employee shareholder trusts are an excellent way of encouraging just that.
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existing shareholder
The order of events will be that the company will offer to allot securities to an existing shareholder in that same group of class of shares and then renounce.
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individual shareholder
As to limited companies, we are told that the individual shareholder should know in order that, if he wishes, he should be able to challenge.
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