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Shareholders from WikiPedia:

A mutual shareholder or stockholder is an individual or company (including a corporation) that legally owns one or more shares of stock in a joint stock company. A company's shareholders collectively own that company. Thus, the typical goal of such companies is to enhance shareholder value.

Stockholders are granted special privileges depending on the class of stock. These rights may include:

• The right to vote on matters such as elections to the board of directors. Usually, stockholders have one vote per share owned, but sometimes this is not the case.[citation needed]
• The right to propose shareholder resolutions.
• The right to share in distributions of the company's income.
• The right to purchase new shares issued by the company.
• The right to a company's assets during a liquidation of the company.

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