What is another word for stockholder?

Pronunciation: [stˈɒkhə͡ʊldə] (IPA)

A stockholder is also known as a shareholder, investor or equity holder. All of these terms refer to individuals who own shares of a company's stock. Other synonyms for "stockholder" include stakeholder, owner, partner, member, and proprietor. Each of these has a slightly different connotation, but they all refer to a person or group that has a financial interest in a corporation. In general, a stockholder has a vested interest in the success of the company. They often receive dividends based on the company's profits and can participate in important corporate decisions through voting rights. Understanding the various synonyms for "stockholder" can help provide clarity when discussing these financial investments. Regardless of what you call them, stockholders play a key role in the success and growth of many businesses.

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Usage examples for Stockholder

We encamped on a beautiful spot, the sight of which would have rejoiced the heart of a stockholder.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell
But now let us suppose that one of the men on the island is strong and aggressive; he takes a club and knocks down the other five men, and compels them to sign a piece of paper agreeing that hereafter he is the president of the land development company of the island, the chief stockholder in the goat-raising company, and owner of the fishing concession and the cocoanut grove; also, that hereafter goods shall not be bartered in kind, but shall be exchanged for money, and that he is the banker, and also the government, with the right to issue money.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
The stock was held by a small group of men, of whom my father was the principal and the majority stockholder.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford

Famous quotes with Stockholder

  • Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
    T. Boone Pickens
  • Amongst the great and numerous dangers to which this country, and particularly the monarchy, is exposed in consequence of the enormous public debt, the influence, the powerful and widely-extended influence, of the monied interest is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it necessarily aims at measures which directly tend to the subversion of the present order of things...I mean an interest hostile alike to the land-holder and to the stockholder, to the colonies, to the real merchant, and to the manufacturer, to the clergy, to the nobility and to the throne; I mean the numerous and powerful body of loan-jobbers, directors, brokers, contractors and farmers-general, which has been engendered by the excessive amount of the public debt, and the almost boundless extension of the issues of paper-money.
    William Cobbett

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