A public company is a company whose shares can be bought by the general public.
[business]
public company in British English
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
public company in Finance
(pʌblɪk kʌmpəni)
Word forms: (plural) public companies
noun
(Finance: Investment, Stocks)
A public company is a company whose shares can be bought by the general public.
Shares in a public company can be bought and sold on the stock exchange and so can be bought by the generalpublic.
A public company is usually defined as one whose shares are sold or issued to the public and whichmust have at least two directors.
A public company is a company whose shares can be bought by the general public.
Related wordsTypes of companyA startup is a new company that is just beginning operations, and a small-cap company is worth under $1 billion.A corporation is a large business or company.A partnership is owned by two or more people. In a limited partnership, some of the partners contribute only financially and are liable only to the extentof the amount of money that they have invested. An LLP, or limited liability partnership, is a type of partnership that limits the amountof liability undertaken by the partners to the amount that they have invested in thepartnership.
public company in Accounting
(pʌblɪk kʌmpəni)
Word forms: (plural) public companies
noun
(Accounting: Investing)
A public company is a company whose shares can be bought by the general public.
SIMILAR WORDS:
publicly traded company
Shares in a public company can be bought and sold on the stock exchange and so can be bought by the generalpublic.
A public company is usually defined as one whose shares are sold or issued to the public and whichmust have at least two directors.
A public company is a company whose shares can be bought by the general public.
Examples of 'public company' in a sentence
public company
But it is less clear that public companies should enjoy the same right to confidentiality.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Fans hoping the club will become less opaque as a public company may be left disappointed once again.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Frontier is a well-established small public company with annual turnover of nearly 20 million.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
When a public company makes a general cash offer of debt or equity, it goes through the same procedure as when it first went public.
Charles A. D'Ambrosio & Stewart D. Hodges & Richard Brealey & Stewart Myers Principles of Corporate Finance (1991)
In other languages
public company
British English: public company NOUN
A public company is a company whose shares can be bought by the general public.
American English: public company
Brazilian Portuguese: sociedade anônima aberta
Chinese: 上市公司
European Spanish: empresa pública
French: société anonyme
German: Aktiengesellschaft
Italian: società per azionicostituita tramite pubblica sottoscrizione