FINANCEanyshareholderwhoownsfewersharesin acompanythan themajorityshareholder(= the one whoownsthe most):Thefundis thelargestoutsideshareholder, with a 21%stake.(Definition ofoutside shareholderfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofoutside shareholder
outside shareholderThere is a discrimination against the employee acquiring ownership in a company by this method as compared with theoutsideshareholder.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0This means they use their money to run their services and reward their members not to pay outside shareholders.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Since decisions about how to run a cooperative are not made by outside shareholders, cooperatives often exhibit a higher degree of social responsibility than their corporate analogues.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Company constitutions typically require that existing shareholders have a pre-emption right, to buy newly issued shares before outside shareholders and thus avoid their stake and control becoming diluted.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There are three classes of agents interacting at the firm level : the manager of the firm, a representative single worker, and outside shareholders.From theCambridge English CorpusThus the drawbacks for outside shareholders are the power sharing and the eventual dilution costs.From theCambridge English CorpusConsequently, with the latter method, outside shareholders benefit from the monitoring conducted by the worker without explicitly paying for it.From theCambridge English CorpusAs usually stated in the corporate finance literature, outside shareholders are diversified, so they act as risk neutral agents by maximizing their expected final wealth.From theCambridge English CorpusOutside shareholders gain from the productivity of the worker in the value creation process.From theCambridge English CorpusOutside shareholders gain from the effort exerted by the worker.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/outside-shareholder##
