At least three big stockholders, the ones that sold Lotus shares, presumably did not see the bid coming.

They speculated that several corporate raiders would soon turn up as big stockholders.

Fortunately, a majority of the big stockholders didn't agree; they finally bullied him into agreeing.

For all I know, he may be a big stockholder.

Thus Kennof became a big stockholder although the value of his stock was virtually nil.

The United States is the biggest stockholder of the 44-nation institution.

Afterward, several big stockholders threatened to sell their shares and objected to the way the meeting had been handled.

He was one of the biggest stockholders in the railroad and he tried to blast the express.

Like the other big stockholders, I'm already in up to the neck.

In total the Busch family owned only 4 percent of the company and were not even the company's biggest stockholders.