shareholder
Definition
Individual, group, or organization that holds one or more shares in a firm, and in whose name the share certificate is issued. It is legal for a firm to have only one shareholder. Also called stockholder.
shareholder is in the Accounting & Auditing, Banking, Commerce & Finance, Investing and Securities & Futures Trading subjects.
shareholder appears in the definitions of the following terms:
cash-out merger,
de facto merger,
dissolution,
liquidator,
paid up,
return on equity (ROE),
voting trust,
members' voluntary liquidation,
statute barred debt,
secured lender
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