What's the difference between shareowner and stockholder?
Shareowner
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Stockholder
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(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.
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(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.