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public company
noun
- a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
public company
noun
- a limited company whose shares may be purchased by the public and traded freely on the open market and whose share capital is not less than a statutory minimum; public limited company Compare private company
Example Sentences
It’s the latest sign that investors may be growing more demanding of the world’s most valuable public company and others that have ridden the artificial intelligence boom to stratospheric valuations.
They don’t produce income like bonds, and their prices can’t be pegged to liquid markets like those of public company securities.
About 80% of public company stock in the United States is owned by institutional investors, most of which have one objective: to maximize profits, largely in the short term and without regard to the costs for society.
It issues all the disclosures required of a public company in the U.S., but anyone reading them would be well advised to open a window first.
It just reported a quarterly profit, barely for the first time as a public company, something it achieved by drastically shaving its “customer acquisition cost.”
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