Only if the corporation decides to allow it. Usually this would mean the current owners are privately selling a portion of their company to you.
A certificate of ownership in a corporation can be either a stock or share, depending on how you buy in and how the corporation is set up.
The corporation exists to make a profit. The generosity of the corporation is admirable. The corporation has great benefits for their employees.
"He worked for the large corporation."
A corporation is an institution recognised a separate legal entity distinct from its members.
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A corporation can be any size, what makes it a corporation is that it issues shares and is owned by its shareholders. In principle one person could create a corporation and buy all of its shares himself, making it a privately held corporation with only one shareholder (but this is rare).
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Most corporations are owned in whole or in part by individuals. When you buy shares of common stock, you become a partial owner of a corporation. There is no reason why one individual can't own 100% of the shares of a given corporation.
Selling the shares to someone else is one way to give the shares back to a corporation. Another way is to sell the shares back to the corporation.
I think you mean "close." One that is not public. The shares are not the subject of a public offering.
what happened to shares of standard prdential corporation
Generally, yes; however, there may be restrictions on each corporation's power to vote the shares and courts may invalidate the arrangement. Section 3.02 of the American Bar Association Revised Model Business Corporation Act allows a corporation to buy shares in any other entity. However, section 7.21(b) of the Act prohibits the voting of shares held by a corporation that is itself a majority-owned subsidiary of the corporation issuing the shares. Moreover, this section does not affect the possible application of court decisions that may invalidate circular holding situations not literally within the prohibitions of the section.
People that own shares of the corporation.
authorized shares are the maximum number of shares of stock that a corporation can issue.
A closely held corporation is one whose shares are owned by a few shareholders who are often family members, relatives, or friends. These "close" shareholders are often involved in the direct management of the corporation and sometimes enter into buy-and-sell agreements that prevent outsiders becoming shareholders. Conversely, publicly held corporations often have many shareholders, for which shares are traded on organized securities markets. These shareholders rarely participate in management activities.