Who owns the company Texas Instruments?

Answer 1

Texas Instruments is a publicly-traded corporation. It is owned by millions of shareholders, either directly or through mutual funds.

Many companies are publicly traded. In each case, there are majority shareholders, often the company itself, so-called 'parent' companies, or corporations that have deliberately set out to purchase a majority of shares for various reasons having to do with profitability.

When a company starts out, the majority shareholders are the founders of the company. Then, when the company goes public, the founders usually retain a very strong position in the company, with strong blocks of voting shares and/or preferred shares that pay interest or a dividend.

At any time, other wealthy individuals or companies may purchase large numbers of shares in order to gain a majority vote that does not depend upon proxy voting in shareholders' meetings.

In almost every case, there remains a majority shareholder, holding the decision-making balance of votes and hence control over and the largest profit share of a publicly traded company. When this occurs, the majority shareholder is regarded as the company's majority owner, even though each holder of a single share owns a little piece of the company.

Perhaps the question may be re-worded to avoid confusion by asking, "Who or what owns the majority of shares in Texas Instruments?"