Sentence examples for a common shareholder from inspiring English sources

Dick Parsons, Citi's chairman, has been openly looking for new board members for some weeks.As a common shareholder, the taxpayer will be taking more risk.

For institutions in which the federal government becomes a common shareholder, we will seek to maximize value for taxpayers and enable these companies to attract private capital, thereby reducing government ownership as quickly as possible.

Hiring an independent environmental expert to sit on a board is a common shareholder request these days and asking the S.E.C. to review a company's disclosures is fair game for shareholders.

Evri and Radar shared a common shareholder, Vulcan Capital, which raised additional issues of insider dealings.

In short, if the preferred stock goes up, you make $13 more than a common shareholder makes, and if the stock declines, your loss will be about $20 less than a common shareholder's loss.

The proposal included a provision that would require a common shareholder vote before Apple could issue any preferred stock, something Einhorn and his hedge fund Greenlight Capital have been seeking from Apple to unlock more of the value of Apple's cash pile for shareholders.

On the other side, he said Fannie and Freddie "will no longer be managed with a strategy to maximize common shareholder returns, a strategy which historically encouraged risk-taking".

In March 1998 Allergan spun off the unit, distributing its Class A common stock to Allergan shareholders.

Edison, based in New York, said that it would issue 2.75 million Class A common shares and that certain shareholders would sell 2.75 million existing shares.

Return on average common shareholder equity, a measure of profitability, rose to 15.1percentt from 14percentt.

The government has the biggest stake in A.I.G., and the biggest common shareholder is Mr. Greenberg and a group of entities he controls.