publicly held

publicly held definition - business

publicly held

  1. Of, relating to, or being securities that are freely transferable among investors. For example, stock owned by institutional investors is publicly held, but unregistered stock held by a firm's founder is not publicly held.
  2. Of, relating to, or being a publicly traded company.

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