Sentences with phrase «give shareholders voting»

Common stock is securities that give shareholders voting rights and equity (asset) ownership in the company.

Requiring that companies give shareholders a vote on such a choice episodically (e.g., every five years) would also be a way to help solve shareholders» inevitable collective action problems without forcing a one - size - fits - all solution on companies generally.

But, in my view, it would be a serious mistake to give shareholders a vote (advisory or otherwise) on companies» campaign spending.

«There is no point giving shareholders a vote on executive pay without the greater transparency needed so they can discern the aggregate remuneration executives receive under the complex arrangements currently in place - David Cameron has shown he is simply out of touch.»

Not exact matches

Dual - class share structures, which give controlling shareholders more than one vote per share or designate some shares as non-voting, are particularly unpopular among governance wonks and institutional investors.

As with many all - stock mergers, T - Mobile and Sprint have decided there is no need to give their minority shareholders a vote on the deal, the sources said.

The power behind Fink's threat to enforce his views hinges, in part, on the standard of one share, one vote — that shareholders» voting power is based on the number of shares they own in a given company rather than the votes of entrenched founders or early investors.

Because the founders currently hold majority - voting rights, the plan does not require that shareholders give their consent to the dilution of their future voting power.

Turner says he'd also give shareholders the right to annually vote on the appointment of auditors selected by the audit committee.

Of course, given that a similar proxy access proposal received 49.9 % of the vote last year, compared to this year's 57 %, company responsiveness to shareholder desires doesn't seem to be deeply ingrained.

Dual classes give some shareholders more voting rights per share than others.

If you are a shareholder of record and you indicate that you wish to vote as recommended by our Board or if you sign, date and return a proxy card but do not give specific voting instructions, then the proxy holders will vote your shares in the manner recommended by our Board on all matters presented in this Proxy Statement, and the proxy holders may determine in their discretion regarding any other matters properly presented for a vote at our Annual Meeting.

The firm, created for the sole purpose of lobbying Taseko to replace two directors and give it a say in key company decisions, had no choice: by the meeting's cut - off date for advanced voting, with 50 % of the votes in, shareholders had voted a resounding 94 % against the dissident's proposals.

If your Shares are held of record by a bank, broker, or other nominee, we urge you to give instructions to your bank, broker, or other nominee as to how you wish your Shares to be voted so you may participate in the shareholder voting on these important matters.

Shares that are properly voted by the Internet or telephone or for which proxy cards are properly executed and returned will be voted at the Annual Meeting in accordance with the directions given or, in the absence of directions, will be voted in accordance with the Board's recommendations as follows: «FOR» the election of each of the nominees to the Board named herein; «FOR» the ratification of the appointment of our independent auditors; «FOR» approval, on an advisory basis, of our executive compensation as described in this Proxy Statement; and «AGAINST» the shareholder proposal.

Last month, it gave Listed an update, noting, «The CSA has heard concerns about the role of proxy advisers in influencing shareholder voting and has solicited formal feedback on this issue.

Although they are fiduciaries charged with protecting the shareholders» interests, the disparate voting rights plan typically will give them voting control.

Given the high level of discontent expressed on the say - on pay proposal last year, when 56.6 % of non-state shareholders voted against, securing support for the proposed remuneration policy may be a challenge.

Shares that are properly voted via the Internet, mobile device, or by telephone or for which proxy cards are properly executed and returned will be voted at the Annual Meeting in accordance with the directions given or, in the absence of directions, will be voted in accordance with the Board's recommendations as follows: «FOR» the election of each of the nominees to the Board named herein; «FOR» the ratification of the appointment of our independent auditors; «FOR» approval, on an advisory basis, of our executive compensation as described in this Proxy Statement; and «AGAINST» each of the shareholder proposals.

Employee stock ownership under ESOPs gives workers confidential voting rights on major corporate issues, so that they have some formal corporate governance rights in closely held corporations, and in stock market companies, employee owners have the same rights as other public shareholders.

This way the shareholders can retain their level of control in the company without having to go out and purchase more shares just for the power of the vote that will give the shareholder more clout at the board level for his / her interests in corporate activities.

Additionally, for the third year in a row, shareholders will vote on a shareholder proposal requesting that Chipotle enhance its sustainability reporting, an issue that may have special significance given the recent food safety incidents.

Michael Cuggino, president and portfolio manager at San Francisco - based Permanent Portfolio of Family Of Funds, which is the fifth largest voting shareholder in Viacom and CBS, applauded Dauman's appointment, and was willing to give him time to improve the company's performance.

Most of the time being a shareholder would give you voting rights on issues within the corporation.

Second, shareholders voting by proxy will be given the relatively unusual opportunity to vote on director candidates individually thanks to an early request for cumulative voting submitted well before the deadline of 48 hours prior to the meeting.

EterPay is Eterbank's official token, its purpose is to give each investor shareholder status in Eterbank acting de facto as a share and following Eterbank's development EterPay will allow its holders to receive dividend payouts from Eterbank's revenue, voting shares and it will be one of the available payment methods for buying products and services in the real world through EterPOS.

The approach of targeting poor performers was met with a favourable response from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which stated that «introducing a targeted [rather than for all votes at all companies] binding vote regime would focus attention on the most concerning cases and give shareholders the teeth to truly have the final say on top executives» pay.»

Shareholder participation in the governance of corporations in this manner gives meaning to the vote and should be promoted.

«To ensure public shareholders are not disadvantaged, any takeover bid would need to be put to a shareholder vote and any recommendation by the board would have to be based on an appropriate premium as well as safeguards for future probity given past track records of the businesses controlled by the Murdoch family», said Kieran Quinn, chairman of Britain's Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF).

The showdown also marks the first time in recent memory shareholders of a major oil and gas company have been given a choice of directors between what the company wants and what the dissident group wants (it is pushing for four of its nominees to be voted to the board).

Shares that are properly voted via the Internet or by telephone or for which proxy cards are properly executed and returned will be voted at the Annual Meeting in accordance with the directions given or, in the absence of directions, will be voted in accordance with the Board's recommendations as follows: «FOR» the election of each of the nominees to the Board named herein; «FOR» the ratification of the appointment of our independent auditors; and «AGAINST» the shareholder proposals.

The Shareholders lack of voting rights gives all control under the Trust Agreement to the Sponsor and the Trustee.

Please don't think that by joining a group on Facebook or moaning on twitter we will get change.Its now or never that a lame duck CEO (who can't sack his own employee) and a majority shareholder (who can vote to pay himself # 3mill) and Arsene should give way for passionate people ie....

This would be very similar to the way that publicly held company stock gives weighted voting to shareholders.

We clearly need to give more powers to long term shareholders, reduce the voting rights of short term speculators, reduce the power of CEOs on boards, and increase the power and independence of non-executive board members.

Given that Rio Tinto and Mitsubishi Development in aggregate hold more than 20 per cent of Coal & Allied, in accordance with the requirements of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), Coal & Allied shareholders (other than Rio Tinto and Mitsubishi Development and their respective subsidiaries) will need to vote to approve the relevant joint bid arrangements between Rio Tinto, Mitsubishi Development and Hunter Valley Resources and their respective related bodies corporate («Coal & Allied Shareholder Approval») before the Scheme can proceed.

«Vince Cable has already made clear that he would like to see more action on this, such as giving shareholders a binding vote on pay packets.

The sum total of all shares, theoretically, equals the entire value of the company, and so with N shares in existence, one share is equivalent to 1 / Nth the company, and entitles you to 1 / Nth of the profits of the company, and more importantly to some, gives you a vote in company matters which carries a weight of 1 / Nth of the entire shareholder body.

This Proposal (scheduled for shareholder vote on February 22nd) would give the Company the ability to issue 12,500,000 millions shares of Class A Common Stock under their Form S - 3 covering the sale of up to $ 30,000,000 of securities.

Written authorization given by a shareholder to someone else, who need not be a shareholder, to represent him or her and vote his or her shares at a shareholders» meeting.

An arrangement to place the control of a company in the hands of certain managers for a given period of time, or until certain results have been achieved, by shareholders surrendering their voting rights to a trustee for a specified period of time.

Shareholders are given the right to vote on the board of directors and other major decisions at an annual meeting or via a proxy ballot.

Since many small shareholders simply don't vote, that will give more power to institutional and activist shareholders who do.

«Preferred» stock usually gives up the voting rights, but pays a higher dividend percentage (maybe double or triple that of common stock) and may have payment guarantees (if a promised dividend is missed in one quarter and then paid in the next, the preferred stockholders get their dividend for the past and present quarters before the common shareholders see a penny).

The shareholders voted against the liquidation on Friday so this probably gives greenlight to pursue acquisitions.

Given that the vast majority of the fund's shares (70 % of the retail and 95 % of the institutional shares) are owned by the family of Alpine's founder, Sam Leiber, I've got a feeling that the shareholder vote is a done deal.

New ideas are often most potent at their beginning, and given the delay between notifying mutual fund shareholders, voting and implementation, critical time is sacrificed, and some of your shareholders may front - run you.

Thus, even a simple application of voting power analysis has profound implications — given the choice, Quicksilver can buffer its loss of influence by a whopping 13 % by distributing its shares to smaller shareholders, rather than selling a lump sum to Baupost.

Given a choice between cold hard cash, or a brand new long - term bet on management, what do you reckon the majority of other / smaller shareholders would vote for?!

The launch of the financial think - tank's first roadmap comes as BP adopts a shareholder resolution on the risks climate laws pose to its business and as Royal Dutch Shell gives its backing to a similar resolution to be voted on at its forthcoming AGM.