Any person, company or other institution that owns at least one share of a company’s stock. Shareholders are a company’s owners. They have the potential to profit if the company does well, but that comes with the potential to lose if the company does poorly. SPVs are the shareholders of companies they invest in and the SPV investors are called SPV members.
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