Is it a matter of public record on who owns shares of a company stock? How can I find this out?
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You probably cannot find this out.  Shareholder lists are not public information, but can be made available to existing shareholders.  However, a shareholder needs to have a reason, such as a proxy fight, in order to get them.  To do that, you need to put up an enormous amount of money and have a reason to try and take over a company.\n\nIt is perfectly legal for someone to do business with a firm they also own and of course they would want the price to go up.  They would be nuts to want it to go down.\n\nIt could potentially be unethical, but it certainly isn't illegal.  Now it could violate her contractual obligations to her employer, but only if the employer has such a policy, it is part of her contract and is materially detrimental to the firm.\n\nThis is how capitalism works, everyone works in their own self interest and as a result we have gone from a near starvation economy to an economy where very few people farm or provide basic services and mostly live in luxury.\n\nIt sounds more like you either are jealous, a pharisee and feel a rule is being broken, or have some personal moral issue in a morality owned by you that other people don't share but you feel they should.
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I think you can just go to YahooFinance and find prices for the history of a stock.  Good luck.
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Gap, Inc. is a publicly traded corporation, so it will be in the footnotes to the financial statements in their 10K, which should be available on the SEC Edgar system.  Also in their annual report, which should be mailed with proxy materials to each shareholder.  Most sophisticated public corporations these days have both available online in the Investor Relations section of their web site.
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Probably not.  It would be proof of holding stock at that particular period of time only.  A person should be able to get a record from the custodian of the shares to prove current ownership of shares.  Since shares are mostly dematerialized nowadays, they are held in your name by a custodial company.
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The capital of a joint stock limited company shall be divided into shares of equal value.\nThe shares of the company shall take the form of share certificates, which are vouchers issued by the company to certify the shares held by their shareholders.\nThe issue of shares shall be in compliance with the principles of publicity, fairness and justice. The same shares must carry the same rights and the same benefits.\nShares of the same issue shall be issued on the same conditions and at the same price. A unit or an individual subscribing to shares shall pay the same price for each share.\n Shares issued by a company to sponsors, a State-authorized investment institution or legal persons shall be registered shares which shall state the names of the sponsors, State-authorized investment institution or legal persons. Such shares may not be registered in other names, or names of their representatives.\n\n　　Shares issued to the general public may be either registered shares or bearer shares.\n\n　　Where registered shares are issued, the company shall prepare a roster of the shareholders, in which the following items shall be recorded:\n\n　　(1) the names or titles, and domiciles of the shareholders;\n\n　　(2) the number of shares held by each shareholder;\n\n　　(3) the serial numbers of the share certificates held by each shareholder; and\n\n　　(4) the date on which each shareholder obtained his shares.\n\n　　Where bearer shares are issued, the company shall keep a record of the number, the serial numbers and the issue date of the share certificates.
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Unfortunately, all the accounting catches in the world don't prevent someone from having a duplicate set of data, which is the most common way to "cook the books".  If you could interface between their books and the actual stock price, and you had some serious computing power, you might be able to tell that something fishy was going on, but you'd have to have access to the data.
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Most libraries carry old newspapers on microfiche, so if you can know a date you can go back and get the actual pricing for that date.\n\nBut that information may not be entirely useful.  Because of stock splits, taxable spinoffs, acquisitions, etc., the share price on any given day in the mid-80's may not be comparable to the current price.\n\nSempra's Investor Relations department would be able to help you out in that regard:\nhttp://www.shareholder.com/sre/
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For stocks that have JUST started trading:\n\nhttp://www.hoovers.com/business-information/--pageid__10008,PDate__M:2006:01--/global-ipoc-index.xhtml\n\nFor future companies going public:\n\nhttp://www.hoovers.com/business-information/--pageid__10005,Date__2006:1--/global-ipoc-index.xhtml\n\nJust be aware that MOST companies do not perform like Google did.
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Through a private person.  All companies will report.  Ask the companies if they are a "reporting" company.
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If you go to the company website, you should find what you need in their investor relations pages.  Otherwise, they might have their latest annual report online, which you can check too.\n\nFailing that, if it is a public company, you can search their filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) at SEC.GOV.  They have a database called Edgar where they keep all filings, which are public record.\n\nIf it is a private company, try www.hoovers.com.  They have some free information, which could include basics like the officers names.  Most other information costs money though.
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Think of this as the first step in performing adequate research into  stock. Use yahoo finance, look in the business section of the newspaper, go to the library and get a s and p stock guide. If you can't find it in one of those sources, chances are that it either is not a publicly traded company or it isn't worth your time.
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http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001326380&owner=include
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It is a state owned business. \nWhat that means is no private person/firm/company can own shares in that enterprise. It is 100% controlled by the state. When it gets privatized then it is a public business.
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Ask your broker for a copy of the Red Herring.  Otherwise, the SEC(Securities and Exchange Commission) web-site likely has all filings for ipo's. Good luck.
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Companies house, there a plc (public Limited Company) they have to supply this information!
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no, shares are for parent companies only. I would recommend opening a second.
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Well, for publicly traded companies, just call their investor relations departments and ask for the annual shareholders' report.  They'll be happy to send it to you because they would like you to believe giving them your money is a good idea.\n\nCompanies that aren't publicly traded aren't required to have annual reports or tell anyone anything about their businesses.