The difference between a business that is owned by the shareholders and a business that is owned by the stockholders can be quite large. In either case, the employees have to be paid and the shareholders have to be compensated for the risk they place in the business.
The shareholders of a business don’t have to be shareholders; they just have to get paid a fair amount of money for the ownership of that company. They may have other interests that they don’t want to share with the shareholders, but the shareholders have to be compensated for that risk.
The amount of stockholders that a company may have depends on the size of the company and the market value of the stock. In the case of a company being privately held, the stockholders are usually family members, not shareholders.
We can take a look at the stockholders on our own website, but if you want to get some insights about how the stockholders work, I recommend consulting the excellent book “The Company of the Future” by Michael Porter.
We’ve got a pretty good list of stocks that have been owned by a number of investors, so if you’re interested in learning more about them, feel free to ask some questions. If you’re not, I recommend checking out the website by Michael Porter.
So we can take a look at the companies on our own website, but it’s important to know who owns which companies, and when. This stuff is complicated, but here are some of the most common situations you might run into.
It really boils down to this: If your company is owned by a single shareholder, you can technically run it as a single family business. When someone owns 50% or more of your company, they can be described as a single shareholder.
If your company has multiple shareholders, it’s called a corporation.
I know the definition of a corporation is not the same as a business. You need a company name to run it as a corporation. Most of our ideas on the internet are simply the name of the company. If your company has a single shareholder, then you can run a corporation as a corporation.
