The brand name firms are usually public companies that have layers of people who benefit from their production of revenue and profit: shareholders, directors, executives, management, and financial advisers.
Exchange executives complain that the shares of their companies — many of which transformed themselves in recent years from nonprofit enterprises owned by their seat-holding members to for-profit, shareholder-owned corporations — are suffering collateral damage from the credit squeeze.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange said today that it had set a vote for June 6 on a plan to convert the member-owned exchange to a for-profit shareholder-owned organization after the Securities and Exchange Commission approved its stock registration.
If there was good to be done with those profits, shareholders should do it.
In the end, it is not the profit or shareholder value that should matter when judging a company.
We don't have to earn a profit for shareholders".
Most businesses are there to make profit for shareholders and no more.
In the new economy, it isn't enough to show a profit for shareholders.
"No customers means no profit," the Shareholders United vice-president Oliver Houston warned yesterday.
Crucially, a profit for shareholders and directors, not we the public.
