holding company

noun

Finance.

1. a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (parent company ).

holding company

noun

1. a company with controlling shareholdings in one or more other companies

holding company

1. A company that controls other companies.

Word History and Origins

Origin of holding company¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Citi accepts that its calculations provide “a very rough proxy for OpenAI” because SVF2 also includes other private companies, and it also does not take any holding company discount into consideration.

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Lufthansa, which already owns a host of carriers and is Europe's biggest airline group by revenue, said it had submitted a bid to the state holding company that owns TAP.

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Third-quarter revenue at the healthcare holding company came in at $1.34 billion, topping the $1.11 billion analysts were anticipating, even though earnings of 32 cents a share missed the 45 cents Wall Street had projected.

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The German airline group said Thursday that it sent a letter expressing its interest to Parpublica, the Portuguese holding company that officially owns TAP.

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Many of the most befuddling stocks reviewed by Barron’s are holding companies incorporated in the Cayman Islands or the British Virgin Islands with investors or subsidiaries that are also Caribbean holding companies.

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