Shareholders are investors or investors of joint-stock companies.

According to the status of shareholders, it can be divided into institutional shareholders and individual shareholders. Institutional shareholders refer to legal persons and other organizations that enjoy shareholder rights. Institutional shareholders include all kinds of companies, all kinds of enterprises owned by the whole people and collectively, all kinds of non-profit legal persons and funds and other institutions and organizations. Individual shareholders refer to ordinary natural person shareholders.

Shareholders are shareholders of a joint stock limited company or a limited liability company, and have the right to attend the shareholders' meeting and have the right to vote. They also refer to investors in other joint ventures.