public company

company that offers its securities for sale to the general public
class legal_form Q891723
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public company

Summary

public company is a legal form[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of legal_form entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,827 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • public company's instance of is recorded as legal form[3].
  • public company's instance of is recorded as type of organization[4].
  • public company is owned by shareholder[5].
  • public company is a type of enterprise[6].
  • public company is a type of joint-stock company[7].
  • public company's Commons category is recorded as Publicly traded companies[8].
  • public company's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Publicly traded companies[9].
  • public company's has characteristic is recorded as listing[10].
  • public company's has characteristic is recorded as public[11].
  • public company's different from is recorded as public enterprise[12].
  • public company's different from is recorded as cooperative[13].
  • public company's different from is recorded as Public corporation[14].
  • public company's different from is recorded as government agency[15].
  • public company's properties for this type is recorded as P414[16].
  • public company's has part is recorded as security[17].

Why It Matters

public company ranks in the top 3% of legal_form entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,827 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). public company. Retrieved April 1, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/public-company
MLA “public company.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 1 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/public-company.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_public-company_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{public company}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/public-company}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-01}}
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Edit History

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  1. 13d 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 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 13349, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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