Sentence examples for shareholders count from inspiring English sources

In Europe, meanwhile, shareholders count themselves lucky if they even have a vote.A new study prepared for the Association of British Insurers (ABI) by Deminor Rating, a Belgian governance consultancy, highlights the weakness of European shareholder democracy.

As shareholders count their blessings and head to Omaha, Nebraska, for Berkshire's annual jamboree on May 3rd, it is only right to pay tribute to Mr Buffett's outstanding success.Berkshire is into all manner of business, from insurance to ice-cream parlours.

Shareholders count on executives to prepare for unanticipated risk, and yet bankers were paid to hide risk in ticking time bombs called "collateralized debt obligations," "structured investment vehicles" and the like.

Q: At the annual election of our co-op's board, two shareholders counted the votes, announced the results, and went home to their apartments.

Broadly speaking, a federal equity crowdfunding law that passed in April as part of the JOBS Act will allow an American company to use an online crowdfunding platform to raise up to $1 million from the general public without these shareholders counting toward the company's private shareholder cap.

The pooled vehicles being set up to acquire Facebook stock, for instance, could push the company's shareholder count above 499 if the S.E.C. counted the number of investors in the funds.

Nelson says actual shareholder counts, maintained by the proxy services unit of Automatic Data Processing, are readily available and known to companies.

That makes sense, looking ahead to a time when the founders hold less sway and the votes of ordinary shareholders really count.

For appraisal litigation to proceed in the Dell case, a majority of the company's shareholders — not counting Mr. Dell — must first approve his offer.

While Wackenhut shareholders are counting their gains, other American investors will be left out of the acquisitive fun: Wackenhut is the only publicly held firm of its type in the U.S.

Meanwhile, ExxonMobil, whose scientists knew as early as the 1960s that catastrophic climate change would ensue if they didn't change course, has invested in climate denial in order to maximize their shareholder value, counting on us to not connect the dots.