noun
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an owner of corporate capital stock
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a person who keeps livestock
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of stockholder
Explanation
A stockholder is someone who has shares in a company. Stockholders own a piece of that company. If you’re a stockholder in the latest, greatest, financially sound new start-up company, your stock is probably worth a lot of money! Stockholders are people who hold stocks — in other words, own shares — in a corporation. When you buy stocks, it's like buying part of the company. The more shares you buy, the more invested you are in a company. The value of the stock goes up when the company does well and goes down when the company does poorly, so stockholders want the company to succeed. If you want to become a stockholder, start following the stock market.
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Personal Finance and Financial Literacy - High School
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Example Sentences
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Under these current offerings, token holders aren’t granted the same benefits as shareholders, including dividend payouts and voting rights on stockholder proposals.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
The oil-and-gas company announced an offering of 11 million shares by a selling stockholder, a position valued at about $1.96 billion as of Tuesday’s close of trading.
From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026
Netflix said the change “simplifies the transaction structure, provides greater certainty of value for WBD stockholders, and accelerates the path to a WBD stockholder vote.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026
These advisory firms emerged during the 1980s as a stockholder reaction to the mayhem of leveraged buyouts and proxy battles taking place during the Gordon Gekko era on Wall Street.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 9, 2026
“I’ll get a job as a runner at the Exchange, then a clerk. I’ll become a stockholder and then a proper merchant, and then I’ll make my fortune.”
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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