Your question is a good one! Why? Because without understanding the deeper issue of shareholders is shareholders, it is very easy to put our interests and the interests of the listed company against each other, the formation of "hostile relationship". After reading the replies of several people upstairs, except for wangxiaofei33's answer is correct, everyone's perception of this issue is biased. \x0d\ We first need to figure out what the concept of shareholders is. \x0d\ Shareholders are the contributors or called investors in a joint stock company. A shareholder is a person who holds shares in a joint-stock company - a person who, by contributing money to the company or by other legal means and acquiring an equity interest in the company, enjoys rights and assumes obligations towards the company. \x0d\ Since a shareholder is "a person who contributes capital to a company or through other legal means and acquires equity in the company? people", then, the shareholders through the legal stock market to contribute to the purchase of shares of any company, they become shareholders of the company, and enjoy the rights and obligations to the company.