Sentence examples for portion of shares from inspiring English sources

When a single shareholder or group owns a dominant portion of shares, that shareholder or group generally controls the company.

Meanwhile, he bought a controlling portion of shares in the Houston Colt.45s, an undistinguished baseball team which had been franchised in 1962.

A.I.G. wants a controlling stake, with the government taking over a significant portion of shares to help relieve pressure on the three heavily indebted companies.

There is a parallel to 1999, when only a small portion of shares in many American technology companies had been sold to the public, creating a limited supply as investors crowded in.

The Russian state electricity monopoly, Unified Energy Systems, will be disbanded on June 30 after spinning off dozens of subsidiaries and floating a portion of shares in those companies on the Russian stock market, then selling the balance at auctions.

But neither adjusts for the small portion of shares that are actually available to investors: an important omission, because the government typically owns about two-thirds of the firms listed.

Will naming-and-shaming about paying a fair portion of shared infrastructure continue?

Again, we calculated the portion of shared objects for each shared predicate and stored a vector of predicate-number pairs to represent their indirect similarity.

We will explore how to determine what portion of shared costs should be allocated to each function, and how to document these allocation calculations.

Therefore, we conducted PCA on the mean HR, LF-HRV and HF-HRV to reduce the dimensionality into one latent variable summarizing the largest portion of shared variance, that is, the first principal component (PC1).

You may consider buying a gift of shares direct, but buying small portions of shares is usually expensive: most stockbrokers operate a minimum charge.