Shareholders Shareholders or stockholders own parts or shares of companies. In large corporations, shareholders are people and institutions that simply invest money for future dividends and for the potential increased value of their shares, whereas in...

A shareholder or stockholder is an individual or company (including a corporation) that legally owns one or more shares of stock in a joint stock company. A company's shareholders collectively own that company. Thus, such companies strive to enhance...

Federal regulators are debating proposals related to shareholders gaining access to company ballots. One plan, setting a minimum level of stock ownership for the investors to get that access, has already stirred opposition from shareholder activist groups.The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering two alternative...

After months of arguments from rival bidders, Caremark shareholders will decide Friday whether to accept the CVS offer favored by managers or hold out for the chance to be taken over by Express Scripts.As expected, CVS Corp. shareholders on Thursday approved a stock and cash...

Several Supreme Court justices challenged shareholder groups who were arguing Wednesday against standards that could make it tougher for investors' cases to go forward when they sue companies for fraud.Appeals courts have been split on whether a stricter standard should be applied for initially making...

Aquila Inc. shareholders on Tuesday voted in favor of selling the regional utility's electric operations to competitor Great Plains Energy Inc.The Kansas City-based company, operator of electric and natural gas utilities in Missouri, Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas, said 88 percent of votes cast at...