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stockholders

  1. The persons or corporations holding stock in a corporation.


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As a company that is beholden to stockholders, Kate Spade usually lags, not leads trends.

Stockholders get less than they paid for their shares, and may wind up with nothing.

Now GM, its stockholders, dealers, workers, indeed, the entire nation, are paying the price of this timidity.

Margin calls greased the slide as stockholders were unable to deliver.

In Ireland they have palpably and greatly benefited every class but the stockholders, and these they have well nigh ruined.

Two other kinds of stockholders still require mention, sellers and purchasers of stock and pledgors and pledgees.

Stockholders who thus appear on the stock books at the date of a meeting are entitled to vote the stock.

Unless this is fixed by charter or by the stockholders they can get nothing, for they cannot legally vote salaries to themselves.

Dividends must be distributed among the stockholders without unjust discrimination.

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