A C corporation is required to have shares - it is how ownership, profit sharing, and decision making is divided among the shareholders.
stock
By selling shares and stocks to their investors
The "stock market".
Corporations could continue to exist after managers died. Corporations could quickly raise money by selling shares of stock. Corporations can grow much faster.
The people who own the most shares in the corporation
Yes. But it's mostly small corporations.
Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company which invests in many other companies. They own millions of shares in Nike, Bank of America, Procter&Gamble, and many other corporations. They make money from dividends that those corporations pay, and by increases in those corporations share prices. When they make profits from corporations, Berkshire Hathaway either sells the stock and the invests in other corporations, or they hold they company and purchase more shares in it.
publicly owned corporation
Public Limited Company
Whether or not their stock is sold on the stock exchange. Is their stock sold to the public. The Corporation for Public Brodcasting I mean like 1967-1970 would Be 3 years after 1967 Or you could be blown up in World War II Shares of public corporations are traded on the stock market. Private corporations do not have shares for sale.
No. IC-DISC corporations must be C corporations.
A business with many owners with each owning shares of the firm is called a corporation. Corporations can be a profit or not for profit business.