Will companies always sell stock? Have most major companies got there money from investors?

Question

I mean what if they find another way to get money instead of selling stock. ALSO IS IT TRUE THAT MOST MAJOR COMPANIES GOT THEIR MONEY from investors using stock i.e. companies like wal-mart?

Answer 1

There are many large companies that are private such as Subway. Companys can raise money be selling corporate bonds. Ford Motor Company, among others, have billions tied up in bonds.

Answer 2

Almost all companies start off privately held. They frequently have venture capital supplied by large companies, banks, or Venture Capitalists.

These early contributors typically get a special type of stock that gives them certain 'rights'. They will typically have a seat on the board, and they will have first claim on funds if the company folds.

When a company gets to a size where it needs to expand, it will usually opt to go public. This allows them to raise capital by selling stock.

Companies are not required to go public; and some companies, having gone public, decide to buy back all the stock and become private again. There are some advantages and disadvantages to both positions.

The most likely situation where a company would start off public is if it is 'spun off' from a parent company. It will already have products and market share in place, so it doesn't need venture capital to get started, but it does want the sustaining capital provided through stock sales.

Answer 3

Will post this again, it is the answer..When he says that this is happening once in a century" Paulson knows the problem was caused beginning in 1913. Please read the following famous quotes from some of our most prominent historical figures. "I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world . . . no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men." Woodrow Wilson (He was the President that signed the creation of the Federal Reserve into law in 1913.) "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt." Henry Ford "Fifty men have run America, and that's a high figure." Joseph Kennedy, 1936 "The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson." Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933 "We shall have world government whether or not you like it . . . by conquest or consent." James Warburg (Rothschild banking agent, financial adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt), 1950 "The real rulers in Washington are invisible, [and] exercise power from behind the scenes." Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1952 "The case for government by elites is irrefutable." William Fulbright, U.S. Senator, 1963 "The Trilateral Commission is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States... They will rule the future." Barry Goldwater, U.S. Senator, 1964 "We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to bright lights and publicity during those years. But the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past centuries." David Rockefeller (Trilateral Commission Founder), 1991 "Today, America would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow, they will be grateful! This would especially be true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by a World Government." Henry Kissinger, 1991 "In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all." Strobe Talbott, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, 1992 "We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as words and money." Arthur Schlesinger, Pulitzer Prize recipient, American historian, special assistant and "court historian" to the President in John F. Kennedy's administration Finally, ask yourself the question, "What is the real motivation for the passage of the following directive?" The National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, signed on May 9, 2007, declares that in the event of a "catastrophic event," George W. Bush can become what is best described as a "dictator": "The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government." This directive, completely unnoticed by the media and given no scrutiny by Congress, literally gives the White House unprecedented dictatorial power over the government and the country, bypassing the U.S. Congress and obliterating the separation of powers. The directive also placed the Secretary of Homeland Security in charge of domestic "security." --------------------------------------...