CAPITAL INVESTMENTS ANALYSED
The average investor, very wisely, likes to spread his shareholdings over a fairly large numtoer of companies, so that his stake in each is generally small. How small it is is seldom realised. " Some time ago I caused an investigation to be made, through the courtesy of the Financial News, of approximately 44,000 entries in the shareholders' registers of ten leading British companies. This research established the fact that, of the entire shareholders in these concerns, 41 per cent held less than 100 shares each, 26 per cent held between 100 and 200 shares, and 20 per cent held between 200 and 500 shares. If these figures can be taken as even broadly representative of the distribution of capital ownership, in a country where the majority of company shares ar*e of £1 denomination, we arrive at the most significant conclusion that, in any given company, two-thirds of the total proprietors have a stake (at par value) of less than £2OO, and nearly 90 per cent have a stake of less than £SOO. . ."
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Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3504, 11 August 1934, Page 3
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175CAPITAL INVESTMENTS ANALYSED Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3504, 11 August 1934, Page 3
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