Why would a company own stock in another company? Shouldn’t they IDK, build a factory or something or pay some dividends with any extra money instead. Unless they are an investment bank I suppose?
Why would a company own stock in another company? Shouldn’t they IDK, build a factory or something or pay some dividends with any extra money instead. Unless they are an investment bank I suppose?
Not really because both of those are set by the company in question unless there are specific government regulations for that industry.
Sometimes they do. An example in Australia is Woolworths, our largest supermarket, they also own Kmart (a clothing store) BigW (a general store), BWS (an alcohol store), plus have a lot of land holdings for those stores.