the.com/shareholder
A part-owner of a company who risks money so executives can risk nothing.
means A person or entity that owns one or more shares of stock in a company, giving them a partial ownership stake and a claim on its profits.
from A transparent compound of "share" + "holder" — quite literally one who holds shares. "Share" descends from Old English "scearu," meaning a division, cutting, or portion (a cousin of "shear" and "share" the plow-blade — both about cutting things into parts). "Holder" is simply one who holds, from Old English "healdan." The financial sense of "share" as a divided unit of company ownership took root as joint-stock companies spread, and "shareholder" followed naturally to name the people clutching those slices.
- one share
- Can legally make you a company co-owner
- voting power
- One share, one vote in many companies
- limited liability
- You can lose investment, not your house
- oldest stock
- Dutch East India Company, traded since 1602
- activist shareholders
- Buy in just to force board changes
softbank group shareholders — masayoshi son and public shareholders own japan's $50+ billion tech conglomerate
tesla public shareholders — elon musk (13%) and millions of others own shares in the $800+ billion electric vehicle company