(n.) One who holds or owns a share or shares in a joint fund or property.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(2) "We do not think the Astra management have done a good job on behalf of shareholders.
(3) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
(4) She added: “We will continue to act upon the overwhelming majority view of our shareholders.” The vote was the second year running Ryanair had suffered a rebellion on pay.
(5) "If you look at the price HP paid, it was an excellent deal for the Autonomy shareholders.
(6) "The company and its shareholders have been handsomely rewarded for that."
(7) Of course it is important to ensure shareholders enjoy the benefits of investing in the company, they are the owners.
(8) Sir James Crosby, the ITV senior independent non-executive director, explained why the board had opted to retain Grade's services for an extra year: "It was the unanimous view of ITV's independent non-executive directors that it would be in the best interests of the company and its shareholders to ask Michael to extend his time as executive chairman.
(9) We remain committed to delivering total shareholder value and look to the future with confidence."
(10) There must also be strict rules in place to reduce the risks they take with shareholders' funds.Yet the huge cost of increasing capital and liquidity is forgotten when the Treasury urges them to increase lending to small and medium businesses.
(11) Tomorrow the courts are expected to sign off a $97.5m payment by the company to its shareholders, after investors took a class action lawsuit against the company.
(12) But Mr Bolloré, with a 29% stake in Aegis, vowed to keep calling shareholder meetings until he gets his way.
(13) At yesterday's EGM in London some 93% of votes cast by non-Bolloré Group shareholders opposed his plan.
(14) According to shareholder Marvin Pearlstein, in a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan on Friday, the Canadian-based BlackBerry, formerly Research In Motion Ltd, misled investors last year by saying the company was "progressing on its financial and operational commitments," and that previews of its BlackBerry 10 platform had been well received by developers.
(15) And he failed to engage with these sensible proposals to limit bonuses to a maximum of a year's salary or double that if explicitly backed by shareholders - proposals which even his own MEPs have backed – until the very last minute.
(16) The company was “owned” by four bearer shareholders, which gave it an extra degree of secrecy.
(17) David Jeary, a retail analyst at Canaccord Genuity, said the terms of Sainsbury’s offer looked attractive for Home Retail shareholders given the business’s recent performance.
(18) Before bids being lodged, sources had indicated that Sky was not prepared to make a knockout bid to snatch back the rights from BT, which has justified the expense to customers and shareholders as “financially disciplined”.
(19) Shareholders stood up to criticise the Ardea acquisition at a time when the company is cutting thousands of its own research staff.
(20) Jay-Z has won control of a Swedish music streaming company after more than 90% of shareholders accepted the star’s $54m (£36m) offer.
Stockholder
Definition:
(n.) One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company.
Example Sentences:
(1) Existing stockholders, including the two founders, are cutting the number of shares they are selling in the IPO.
(2) Companies could spread the wealth, either giving it to stockholders or pumping it into the economy – wouldn't that be a nice change from what we hear about the unevenness of the economy, and companies hoarding cash while households struggle?
(3) While Zuckerberg's deputies received new shares last year, Facebook's compensation committee decided not to award more to the chief executive because "his existing equity ownership position sufficiently aligns his interests with those of our stockholders".
(4) Motive scores (needs for Achievement, Affiliation, and Power) of the chief executive officers of the nation's 50 largest industrial firms were determined using content analysis of letters to stockholders contained in the firms' annual reports.
(5) Today's report comes at a time when our business has never been stronger and we continue to demonstrate strong operational excellence focused on returning maximum value to all of our stockholders.
(6) And throughout it all, too many in our national media ... their corporate owners ... and their stockholders ... act as silent enablers, if not complicit co-conspirators.
(7) Can the Trust show us the evidence that its negotiations as a stockholder of Shell, BP and the other fossil fuel companies are the best route towards the rapid reduction of carbon emissions?
(8) Jim Payne, MoPub chief executive, and other MoPub stockholders, $667m 14,791,464 shares The mobile advertising exchange was bought by Twitter in September in an all-shares deal.
(9) Richard Gonzalez, AbbVie’s chairman and chief executive, said: “Although the strategic rationale of combining our two companies remains strong, the agreed upon valuation is no longer supported as a result of the changes to the tax rules and we did not believe it was in the best interests of our stockholders to proceed.” Shire waived a requirement for AbbVie to give it three days’ notice before its board meeting so that the US company could make its position clear.
(10) The board is confident that continuing to execute its strategic plan will create significantly more value for the company and its stockholders and is superior to any proposal that 21st Century Fox is in a position to offer,” it said.
(11) Can the trust show us the evidence that its negotiations as a stockholder of Shell, BP and the other fossil fuel companies are the best route towards the rapid reduction of carbon emissions?
(12) That’s the center of a whole movement called “corporate governance” where stockholders try to get companies to run themselves better, or at least more profitably.
(13) "Political rights won't be violated but will resemble those of a small stockholder in a giant enterprise," he wrote.
(14) The question is whether James, his father, the company and its stockholders believe that is fair enough in the light of Ofcom's conclusions.
(15) That is so even though the voter is also the taxpayer, who also has yet another alias as the selling stockholder in this venture – and thus a powerful reason for wanting to know what is going on with their investment.
(16) "Today's report comes at a time when our business has never been stronger and we continue to demonstrate strong operational excellence focused on returning maximum value to all of our stockholders.
(17) Lagardère, a conglomerate whose interests span publishing and airport retail, released a statement criticising the terms of the tie-up, in which EADS shareholders will emerge with 60% of the business while BAE stockholders take 40%.
(18) Still, there remains a question of whether the offshore tax holiday was ever really a plausible corporate problem, or one hyped by CEOs as an excuse to inflate their company's coffers and their stockholders' wallets rather than invest in new initiatives.
(19) "The founders of the Ponzi Victims Coalition are dedicated to pursuing legislative and litigative actions to mitigate the devastating effects these schemes have had upon fundholders, pensioners, stockholders, and all investors – direct and indirect – in these tainted investment instruments," it says.
(20) The company responded that it would oppose the resolution, which it said is not in the best interest of its stockholders, according to Natasha Lamb, Arjuna Capital’s director of equity research and shareholder engagement.