stockholder of record

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   the stockholder whose name is registered on the books of the corporation as owning the shares at a particular time

   Broaderstockholder

Questions about stockholder of record

What does stockholder of record mean?

stockholder of record means "the stockholder whose name is registered on the books of the corporation as owning the shares at a particular time".

Is stockholder of record a common word?

stockholder of record is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.