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September 10, 2007

What is the difference between stockholder and stakeholder?

A stockholder or shareholder is the holder or owner of stock in a corporation.

A stakeholder is anyone that has an interest or is affected by a corporation. In other words, the stockholder isn’t the only party having a stake in the corporation. Other stakeholders in a corporation include the employees, the employees’ families, suppliers, customers, community, and others.

Some organizations do not have stockholders, but have stakeholders. For example, the state university doesn’t have stockholders, but it has many stakeholders: students, the students’ families, professors, administrators, employers, state taxpayers, the local community, the state community, society in general, custodians, suppliers, etc.

Learn more about Stockholders’ Equity.

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9 Responses to “What is the difference between stockholder and stakeholder?”

  1. sushilpatel on January 31st, 2008 2:02 pm

    accounting

  2. ABUBAKAR on October 9th, 2008 11:56 am

    A stockholders are the stockbrokers in the market while the shareholders are the owner of share( those who bought the share

  3. piya on October 22nd, 2008 10:56 am

    Thanks
    there is no difference between stock holder and share holder they are the same and they are the owner of the stock in acarporation but stake holder is the organization or person or any one which is effected by the carporation.

  4. salman khan on November 10th, 2008 1:55 pm

    Simply i will say that the stockholder or shareholder is the OWNER………….of what………..OF your firm assats

    While stakeholder are those which are intrested in your profit only there eye are only on your profit they need interset of it

    All stockholder are stakeholder but not vice versa

    for more information u can contect directly on my email id that is skkhan_242@yahoo.com
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  5. mohammed saad (from lebanon) on March 7th, 2009 10:51 am

    stakeholder has a percentage of profit from the corporation between 30% and 40%. but stockholders has a number of share and geting divident from the company.

  6. ANN on April 9th, 2009 6:01 am

    what benefits do i stand to gain if i buy a share, and which way is the best way or past firm to buy a share from.

  7. leonah on May 7th, 2009 2:23 am

    you stand to get dividends if the compony makes money, you also partly own the compony, you can use your shares as security to obtaian a loan form abank, you have voting rights in the compony.

    the best way is to go through a brocker or brockerage compony.

  8. sonu on July 6th, 2009 5:31 am

    thanks
    stockholders and stakeholders are near about same in meaning but the stakeholders are those who get approaach by the company.

  9. UDDIN on August 12th, 2009 6:37 am

    Shareholders are the primery owner of the company/corporation and get divident when it earn resonable profit. At first when a company enter in market, it collect capital with selling share to the public. A share amount may be 100% paid up or partial paid up. In practices, a company or a corporation firstly issue share to general public.

    Stock holder, also the owner of the corporation/company and get divident when it earn resonable profit. Only 100% value paid up share may be convert into stock. One fully paid up share may be converted into more stock, as per company’s/corporation’s market position.

    If any one like for more sharing may contact to ( uddin_kafil@yahoo.com) call to : 088 01713488234.

    Thanks

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