Sentence examples for ranks of shareholders from inspiring English sources

Even after tumbling this year, the stock market produced substantial gains for the growing ranks of shareholders.

Ms. Kimura is part of an emerging breed of individual Japanese investors who are starting to break the traditionally docile ranks of shareholders and hold company managers accountable, for issues like missed management targets and corporate scandals.

The ranks of shareholders, who seem to have clung to some kind of option value by keeping the companies' market capitalizations not far off $1 billion each, will no doubt be further reduced to those who can tolerate illiquid over-the-counter trading.

Gemstar once again dipped into to the ranks of shareholder News Corp. for its new helmsman.

The nation's largest public pension fund said Wednesday that it would withhold its votes for Michael D. Eisner, the besieged chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, signaling that the ranks of disaffected shareholders are growing ahead of next week's annual board election.

Joining the growing ranks of real estate companies asking shareholders for more cash, Jones Lang LaSalle said late Tuesday it would sell 5.5 million shares to pay down bank loans.

Stock in Guess, a clothing maker, gained 49 cents to close at $25.74 after it joined the ranks of companies pledging special dividends to shareholders before favorable tax rates on dividends expire at the end of the year.

He rallied support from thousands of shareholders.

Speaking of shareholders.

It evaluates compensation not on the basis of what other companies pay but how well it aligns the interests of senior executives with those of rank-and-file shareholders.

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