Majority Shareholder

Majority Shareholder - Majority Shareholder is a shareholder who is part of a group that controls more than half the outstanding shares of a corporation. A single shareholder who controls more than half a corporation's outstanding shares, or sometimes, one of a small group of shareholders who collectively control more than half of a corporation's outstanding shares. It is a person or conglomerate who owns 50% or more of outstanding shares in a corporation. It is buying that much interest in a corporation that gives an entity a huge amount of control. If the ownership is widely scattered, there are no majority shareholders.