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Margin Call
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The perils of disproportionate voting

ANALYSIS: A close look at why Class A shares carry diminished voting power compared with unlisted B shares held primarily by management interests.

Meta Platforms’ Class A shares are the 15th worst-performing stock in the MSCI United States index so far this year.

If you were putting up the majority of the capital required to establish or fund a business, would you allow your business partner uncontestable control over the finances and direction of the business even though they had only put up a minority of the total capital?

Most clear-thinking people would

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Nicholas Bagnall Tue, 15 Nov 2022
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