Sentence examples for shareholder stand from inspiring English sources

Laxey Partners, the club's single-biggest shareholder, stand to make £150,000 in either interest or shares by the time their money is repaid by the agreed date of 1 September.

One shareholder stood up and surveyed the room.

"I would just like to caution our company not to get on this global-warming bandwagon," one shareholder stood up to say.

During one of the first annual meetings I attended, one shareholder stood up and advised me and everyone in attendance that I should resign.

So if the bank takes big risks that promise big profits, its shareholders stand to enjoy the full gains but to bear only part of the losses.

At the annual general meeting shareholders stand by his image and wave their fingers at Mukesh, reminding him of his father's promise to pay bigger dividends.

It assumed wrongly; this person is now suing the co-op, and the shareholders stand to lose a lot of money because of her lawsuit.

In addition, executives, who are often large shareholders, stand to benefit from even a small, short-term jump in stock prices.

But while Bear Stearns shareholders stand to lose billions of dollars, Mr. Dimon has scooped up potentially lucrative businesses and Bear's soaring New York headquarters on the cheap.

The subordinated-debt holder receives at most the interest on his debt; he has no stake in the upside of any hazardous escape plans, whereas shareholders stand to win the jackpot.

The usual argument is that shares carry more risk than government bonds: as the residual owners of a company, shareholders stand to lose their entire investment in the event of bankruptcy.