The elusive shareholder
(midwest.social)
The Picard Maneuver
Curated TumblrI've never quite understood, is a shareholder just someone with stock in a company or is it a level above that?
If it's just stocks I theoretically own a few in Disney somewhere. It was a gift for being born.
Yes, a shareholder is someone who owns part of the company, which is what stocks/shares are.
There are different stock types, though. Common stock is what everyone thinks of when they hear stocks/shared. You own a portion of the company and can vote on stuff, and maybe get some dividends.
Then there are preferred stocks which are basically a hybrid stock/bond with a fixed regular dividend. They also get first claim to the company assets if it goes under, but they usually don't have voting rights. Then there are subtypes of preferred stocks.
If you hold a share, you hold a share. makes you a share holder imho.
also: congrats on being born from me, too!
Sounds like something a shareholder would say.
Just about everyone with retirement savings or a pension is a shareholder, usually via index funds. I’m not sure if you can access your voting rights for those shares, or if they’re handled by the index fund manager (who for sure is voting for profit at all costs)
Typically, no. You don't get to vote for an index or mutual fund.
I've found stocks to be a fun thing to kind of collect. That company seems fun and stocks are $34. Eh, I'll buy one. And then just forget I have it. I don't do day trading or anything like that. So it's low stress and unless you are trying to buy a lot, relatively cheap. Occasionally you'll even get 24 cents back!
Technically speaking you're not the shareholder, but the fund is. You cannot get voting rights from owning ETFs.
I own 4 shares of IBM. A friend of my father's bought one for me as a birth present, and it split twice since then.
at this pace you'll own more shares than there are in the entire world by the time you're 64
Not sure if math joke or downfall of society joke.
Yes
it's chess
No fr, just hang out at coffee shops and bars in financial districts, these people have no tact
well they do view the constitution as weak...
And have proven it so repeatedly
