shareholder
n.a person or company that owns at least one part of a business. Because they own a piece of the company, they can get a share of the profits and sometimes vote on how the business is run.
n.an individual or institution that legally owns one or more shares of stock in a public or private corporation. This ownership typically grants rights to a portion of the company's earnings and the ability to vote on corporate policy.
“The company sent a report to every shareholder.”
“The board of directors met yesterday to discuss how to increase value for each shareholder after a difficult fiscal year.”
“Institutional shareholders often exert significant pressure on executive boards to adopt more transparent environmental policies, leveraging their massive equity stakes to force a vote during the annual general meeting.”
Often used in the plural when discussing corporate governance or market reactions.
“That suggests the group will be in pole position to become majority shareholders if Fenway wants to sell up, but according to one source, no commitments have been made to do so.”
“What he found was the firms that kept their DEI policies or voted down anti-DEI shareholder resolutions did just as well financially, even after Trump’s executive order, as firms that didn’t.”
Common in sport and health writing
From share + holder.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.