How to Use stockholder in a Sentence

stockholder

noun
  • The hold-up came down to a single stockholder, the company has said.
    Jennifer Williams-Alvarez, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Under the terms of the deal, Vintage will pay Rent-A-Center stockholders $15 per share.
    Ben Tobin, USA TODAY, 18 June 2018
  • But here’s the big difference — like AT&T, when Xcel takes a hit, their stockholders lose.
    Jon Caldara, The Denver Post, 21 June 2019
  • But the move also lowers the value of each stockholder's share.
    Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 29 July 2019
  • But if either of those things falter in 2020, stockholders might not be so thrilled.
    Adam Epstein, Quartz, 20 Dec. 2019
  • These three will be paid a salary, and one or all can be replaced at any time by a majority vote of the stockholder fans.
    Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 7 Nov. 2020
  • The new shareholder payout will be made on or after May 15, to stockholders of record at the close of business on April 24.
    Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 14 Apr. 2020
  • The new shareholder payout will be made on or after May 15, to stockholders of record at the close of business on April 21.
    Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Will the government find a new tax to punish stockholders?
    Washington Post, 6 July 2019
  • But those changes did not benefit all of Airbnb’s stockholders.
    Erin Griffith, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Twitter is ready to schedule a stockholder vote on the Musk purchase as early as mid-August, the lawsuit said.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 12 July 2022
  • It’s been a bad couple of days for Tesla, but there’s no reason for the company or its stockholders to panic yet.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 21 Apr. 2023
  • With support from a group of current PG&E stockholders, the company is working on its own plan.
    J.d. Morris, SFChronicle.com, 24 July 2019
  • In rare circumstances, a defendant can prove that a stockholder brought the suit as a proxy for legal counsel.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2023
  • Still, if either the bondholders or the current stockholders prevail in their fight for control, the winning side could make a lot of money.
    J.d. Morris, SFChronicle.com, 23 July 2019
  • But the lawsuit filed on behalf of Adidas stockholders alleges that the company had for years been aware of the potential harm Ye could cause them.
    Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
  • Even a question from a stockholder asking what will happen to his shares if someone buys Twitter and takes it private was shot down.
    CBS News, 26 May 2022
  • Credit unions, on the other hand, don’t have stockholders and are considered non-profits.
    Nathan Bachrach and Amy Wagner, Cincinnati.com, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The rest of the corporate sector struggles to convince stockholders to believe that their projects will work out (with plenty of exceptions where the CEO has the trust of investors).
    James MacKintosh, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2019
  • The vote on the nonbinding resolution could give Amazon leaders a view of where stockholders stand on the issue.
    Benjamin Romano, The Seattle Times, 18 May 2019
  • In 1902, Allsopp became a minority stockholder in the Gazette when the paper was sold to the Heiskell family of Memphis.
    Tom Dillard, Arkansas Online, 15 Feb. 2021
  • The company has more than $60 billion in debt, borrowed to fund purchases of its own stock to buoy its price and to pay out stockholder dividends.
    New York Times, 23 June 2021
  • More than $200 million left the checkbook in the form of stockholder dividends and a smaller amount went for stock repurchases.
    Star Tribune, 22 May 2021
  • And the outcomes reflect the extent to which concerns over these issues are resonating with stockholders.
    Ed Silverman, STAT, 15 June 2018
  • The package was approved by the company’s stockholders two months later.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Sills also claimed to be a Disney stockholder at another point.
    NBC News, 4 Apr. 2021
  • The fail point from a cash stockholder perspective is limited to the non-invested cash a brokerage firm holds.
    Javier Paz, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • The conversion would dilute the common stockholders’ ownership, but allow AMC to pay down some of its $5.1 billion in debt.
    Reuters, CNN, 21 July 2023
  • To the stockholders there’s no problem with Disney’s business plan unless the remakes stop making billions.
    Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • At the end, stockholder sentiment was of little concern.
    Jack Nasher, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021

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