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I think for voting power in large companies, 200 shares and 2000 shares compare as approximately equal (probably 20,000 too).


There are, however, often institutional investors who own meaningful amounts of a conpany's shares.


I don't see how that is a however, my point was that there is some threshold below which an investor is basically irrelevant when it comes to control of the company, not something about whether there are large holders of shares. As a small investor, this usefully informs reasoning, because you are not buying control of the company, you are giving control over your investment to the people who do have meaningful amounts of stock.

(For instance, when Google IPO'd, they made sure that everybody buying stock in the IPO was irrelevant to control of the company by issuing a different class of shares to the founders/insiders)




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