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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.
== == A partnership can not own an S corporation. It is not a person, and does not qualify as a Q-Sub trust. The references as to who can own a S corporation can be found at the following government web address: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2006/aprqtr/pdf/26cfr1.1361-1.pdf
A corporation can own itself. There can be just one owner or there can may owners of the corporation.
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A corporation is a legal entity registered with the state in which it is formed. A corporation is owned by stockholders (the people who buy shares of stock issued by the corporation). The stock of a public corporation can be purchased by anyone through the stock exchange where the corporation is listed. This is simple. It is an economical society of pupils/ adults, working together as a cooperation team.
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.
It is called a stock repurchase and is posted to an account called Treasury Stock, a contra-account in the Equity section.
They own a share of a company.
1. Treasury stock is a corporation's own stock that has been issued, fully paid for, and reacquired by the corporation and is being held in it's treasury for future use.
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.
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A corporation might repurchase its own stock in order to invest in itself. This allows the company to retain ownership of itself.
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Yes.
The people who buy stock and own the company.
People who buy stock and own the company.
The people who buy stock and own the company.