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The people who buy stock and own the company.
People who buy stock and own the company.
The people who buy stock and own the company.
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A corporation might repurchase its own stock in order to invest in itself. This allows the company to retain ownership of itself.
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The people who buy stock and own the company.
People who buy stock and own the company.
The people who buy stock and own the company.
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the stockholders of a corporation can lose only what they have invested in the corporation
Yes, a corporation can be a stockholder in a regular C corporation. A common form of this is called a "holding company" but other types of companies regularly buy stock in other companies too. However, a corporation cannot own stock of an "S" type corporation. Only actual people can own shares of an S corporation.
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.
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Sometimes a single stock-holder buys all the stock of a particular corporation, but the corporation itself would not buy all of its own stock and become self-owned, because, after all, a corporation is just a legal structure, there is no actual self. A corporation owned by itself is owned by nobody, and that would be pointless.
the people who buy stock and own the company