Examples of publicly held corporation in the following topics:
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- Amtrack is an example of a publicly owned corporation that was started in 1971 to provide inter-city rail transport in the US.
- It is partially owned by the government because all its preferred stock is under government ownership while its common stock is held by the public.
- There is no standard definition of a publicly-owned corporation or state-owned enterprise (SOE), although the two terms can be used interchangeably.
- For example, in 2007 the Chinese Investment Corporation agreed to acquire a 10% interest in the global investment bank Morgan Stanley, but it is unlikely that this would qualify the latter as a government-owned corporation.
- There are multiple ways of defining GLCs, depending on the proportion of the corporate entity a government owns.
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- Usually, security of a publicly traded company is owned by many investors while the shares of a privately held company are owned by relatively few shareholders.
- This is the reason publicly traded corporations are important; prior to their existence, it was very difficult to obtain large amounts of capital for private enterprises.
- New companies, which are typically small, tend to be privately held.
- After a number of years, if a company has grown significantly and is profitable or has promising prospects, there is often an initial public offering, which converts the privately held company into a publicly traded company.
- This method provides capital for various corporate purposes through the issuance of equity without incurring any debt.
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- Historically, corporations were created by a charter granted by government .
- Corporations generally have a distinct name.
- This requirement generally applies in Europe, but not in Anglo-American jurisdictions, except for publicly traded corporations where financial disclosure is required for investor protection.
- Some corporations choose not to have a descriptive element.
- Bylaws outline a number of important administrative details such as when annual shareholder meetings will be held, who can vote and the manner in which shareholders will be notified if there is need for an additional "special" meeting.
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- According to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, the top 100 individual super PAC donors in 2011–2012 made up just 3.7% of contributors, but accounted for more than 80% of the total money raised, while less than 0.5% of the money given to "the most active Super PACs" was donated by publicly traded corporations.
- In 2010, the United States Supreme Court held in Citizens United v.
- Federal Election Commission that laws prohibiting corporate and union political expenditures were unconstitutional.
- Citizens United made it legal for corporations and unions to spend from their general treasuries to finance independent expenditures, but did not alter the prohibition on direct corporate or union contributions to federal campaigns; those are still prohibited.
- According to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, the top 100 individual super PAC donors in 2011–2012 made up just 3.7% of contributors, but accounted for more than 80% of the total money raised, while less than 0.5% of the money given to "the most active Super PACs" was donated by publicly traded corporations.
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- In countries with public trading markets, a privately held business is generally taken to mean one whose ownership shares or interests are not publicly traded.
- Often, privately held companies are owned by the company founders or their families and heirs or by a small group of investors.
- Most small businesses are privately held.
- Though most companies start out privately held, there are situations in which a publicly traded company becomes privately acquired.
- Investor involvement: A publicly traded company's shareholders are a large, anonymous, and mostly uninformed group.
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- The sole proprietor is generally held accountable for all products and/or services produced by the business, as well as debts and liabilities of the business.
- Corporations must also submit identification and governing documents such as Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws.
- Corporate entities are generally required to be kept in active status through annual updates to a regulatory authority.
- Corporate entities may vary in numbers of owners from a single shareholder to an unlimited number.
- For example, US corporations with publicly traded shares are regulated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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- These main six corporate departments represent the major managing resources within a publicly traded company; though there are often smaller departments either within the major segments or in autonomous form.
- Another way a corporate structure can be defined is by business divisions.
- Hewlett Packard (HP) is a good example of a corporate structure including multiple divisions.
- Google Video is a division of Google, and is part of the same corporate entity.
- Hewlett Packard is an example of a corporation with multiple divisions and subsidiaries.
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- They are often mutually held (often called mutual savings banks), meaning that the depositors and borrowers are members with voting rights, and have the ability to direct the financial and managerial goals of the organization like the members of a credit union or the policyholders of a mutual insurance company.
- While it is possible for an S&L to be a joint stock company, and even publicly traded, in such instances it is no longer truly a mutual association, and depositors and borrowers no longer have membership rights and managerial control.
- All three note-issuing banks are in this shot: Bank of China, HSBC (Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation), and Standard Chartered Bank.
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- Government corporations are revenue generating enterprises that are legally distinct from but operated by the federal government.
- A government-owned corporation, also known as a state-owned company, state enterprise, publicly owned corporation, or commercial government agency, is a legal entity created by a government to undertake commercial activities on behalf of the government.
- In some cases, government-owned corporations are considered part of the government, and are directly controlled by it.
- Corporations in this category include the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, The National Park Foundation, and many others.
- Lastly, the government sometimes controls government acquired corporations--corporations that were not chartered or created by the government, but which it comes to possess and operate.
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- Market actors include individual retail investors, mutual funds, banks, insurance companies, hedge funds, and corporations.
- Specifically, market actors include individual retail investors, institutional investors such as mutual funds, banks, insurance companies and hedge funds, and also publicly traded corporations trading in their own shares.
- A few decades ago, worldwide, buyers and sellers were individual investors, such as wealthy businessmen, usually with long family histories to particular corporations.
- Issuers may be domestic or foreign governments, corporations, or investment trusts.
- An index fund or index tracker is a collective investment scheme (usually a mutual fund or exchange-traded fund) that aims to replicate the movements of an index of a specific financial market, or a set of rules of ownership that are held constant, regardless of market conditions.