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public company

company that offers its securities for sale to the general public
Class type of: enterprise, joint-stock company Q891723
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Summary

public company is a legal form[1]. It is a type of enterprise[2] and joint-stock company[3].

Key Facts

  • Instance of: type of organization[4]
  • Owned by: shareholder[5]
  • Has characteristic: listing[6], public[7]
  • Different from: public enterprise[8], cooperative[9], Public corporation[10], government agency[11]
  • Properties for this type: P414[12]
  • Has part(s) of the class: security[13]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic → listing, public
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||3 */ Cleanup: remove wikimedia+self_stated_in refs ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
  2. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Reddit topic id → —
    Sciencedirect topic id → computer-science/public-corporation, economics-econometrics-and-finance/public-company, social-sciences/public-company +1
    Babelnet id → —
    Has part(s) of the class → security
    + 47 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ Yso id: 13349, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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