(1) Furthermore, high debt levels may negatively affect common stockholders , who are last in line for claiming payback from a company that becomes insolvent.(2) A dividend is a cash payout a company gives stockholders .(3) Because many of the tax law's provisions are aimed squarely at investors, his strategists hope to score points with a burgeoning group of stockholders .(4) But just because Microsoft is handing a load of cash to stockholders doesn't mean it won't have plenty of dough to invest in its future.(5) Most of the family members are stockholders , he said.(6) Let me begin by recalling and further welcoming the remarkable range of guests who are signalling their stockholding in the HSRC by joining in this important event.(7) That's no simple question, as the hundreds of pages filled with figures and legalese that Viacom dropped on its stockholders make plain.(8) Options are both compensation for executives and also potential costs to stockholders , since their exercise dilutes stockholder ownership rights.(9) But, there is also a lot to be said for corporations having the freedom to let people go to improve bottom lines so their stockholders get more profits.(10) On Thursday, the company set aside nearly £50m from profits to cover the 5% stockholding the employees voted to accept.(11) In tender offers, corporations issue public promises to purchase the stock of targets directly from their stockholders at preset prices.(12) I wish BusinessWeek would report on what happens to Aetna's insureds while they are making all this money for themselves and their stockholders .(13) The report said that new Treasury-imposed accounting rules - known as resource accounting - may also have resulted in ‘poor decision making’ about the appropriate levels of stockholding .(14) In an attempt to create a corporation where stockholders ' interests are looked after, many firms have implemented a two-tier corporate hierarchy.(15) At the bankrupt Cone Mills, unhappy stockholders and board members have accused him of conflict of interest.(16) The stockholding banks increased their assets by 34.3 per cent to 4.09 trillion yuan, while liabilities rose 34.5 per cent to 3.95 trillion yuan.
