Obviously yes.
Well not so obviously, it used to be illegal. I would like to learn the history of how it became legal for one corporation to own another corporation.
A corporation might repurchase its own stock in order to invest in itself. This allows the company to retain ownership of itself.
To keep from being taken over by another corporation or even an individual, If you own 51% of the stock for A company, you in essence OWN IT>its true that a corporation would buy its own stocks which referred as " Treasury stocks" for not being taken by others ... but also this acquisition decreases its total asset and total equity. besides we shouldn't forget that its a contra stockholder equity account.
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.
Those shares are shown as a contra-account in the Equity section of the Balance Sheet called Treasury Stock.
The Sara Lee Corporation owns Hillshire Farms
A corporation might repurchase its own stock in order to invest in itself. This allows the company to retain ownership of itself.
Yes.
The people who buy stock and own the company.
To keep from being taken over by another corporation or even an individual, If you own 51% of the stock for A company, you in essence OWN IT>its true that a corporation would buy its own stocks which referred as " Treasury stocks" for not being taken by others ... but also this acquisition decreases its total asset and total equity. besides we shouldn't forget that its a contra stockholder equity account.
Yes. One legal entity can own shares in another legal entity just as an individual can have ownership.
People who buy stock and own the company.
NO
The people who buy stock and own the company.
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.
Yes, a corporation can be a stockholder in a regular C corporation. A common form of this is called a "holding company" but other types of companies regularly buy stock in other companies too. However, a corporation cannot own stock of an "S" type corporation. Only actual people can own shares of an S corporation.
own the company’s stock
Sometimes a single stock-holder buys all the stock of a particular corporation, but the corporation itself would not buy all of its own stock and become self-owned, because, after all, a corporation is just a legal structure, there is no actual self. A corporation owned by itself is owned by nobody, and that would be pointless.