corporation
A corporation might repurchase its own stock in order to invest in itself. This allows the company to retain ownership of itself.
Officially ownership is represented by who holds the equity of a company. Corporations have shareholders and they are the owners. Whomever holds more shares owns a greater portion of the company.
From a tax standpoint, there are some benefits for a small business to form a corporation, of course there are different forms of corporations and the benefits differ. The primary reason and benefit in forming a corporation is the limited liability involved. A corporation is like an individual taxpayer or person in that if the corporation is sued from some reason and don't have enough insurance to cover the loss, the suit cannot generally take the assets of the business owners except for the value of their ownership in the business. A business owners home and family are protected from attachment due to this issue. They may loose their business but not everything in their life.
Barclays has a public limited type of ownership.
Ownership in a corporation is typically imparted through the ownership of shares of stock in the company. Shareholders own a portion of the corporation proportional to the number of shares they hold.
Most corporations can be owned by any number of people. Ownership in a corporation is represented by shares of stock. Each "share" represents an equal portion of ownership, and can be owned by a single person, more than one partners, or even another corporation. A special kind of corporation, called a Subchapter-S Corporation, receives certain tax benefits but cannot have more than 75 individual owners at a time.
It is owned by stockholders.
A stock.
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Stock imparts ownership in a corporation.
Stockholder.
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By the transfer of equity.
The articles of incorporation defines ownership and operating procedures and conditions for a corporation
A corporation shields one from personal liability. A corporation can keep ownership confidential. A corporation may have income tax advantages.
Stockholder.