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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Privately held companies of the United States. This category is for companies headquartered in the United States that do not have stock that trades on a stock market and are not subsidiaries or joint ventures of companies that are publicly-traded.
A joint-stock company is a business owned by people called shareholders. Each shareholder owns company stock in proportion to the number of their shares (certificates of ownership). [1] . Some shareholders may own a larger proportion of a company's share than others.
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or over-the-counter.
This is a list of the world's largest non-governmental privately held companies by revenue. This list does not include state-owned enterprises like Sinopec, State Grid, China National Petroleum, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, Pemex, PDVSA and others. These corporations have revenues of at least US$10 billion.
Public companies possess some advantages over privately held businesses. Publicly traded companies are able to raise funds and capital through the sale (in the primary or secondary market) of shares of stock. This is the reason publicly traded corporations are important; prior to their existence, it was very difficult to obtain large amounts of ...
Help. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Privately held companies by country. This is a container category. Due to its scope, it should contain only subcategories. Subcategories. This category has the following 58 subcategories, out of 58 total. Employee-owned companies by country (7 C) A. Privately held companies of Australia (2 C, 95 P)
Both privately-held and publicly-held companies are commonly referred to in casual parlance as "private companies" (in the sense of not being State-owned). "Private company" may mislead readers without familiarity with technical nomenclature to assume this article refers to all private sector companies.
