Quote from: Syke on May 17, 2017, 05:25:11 PM

Quote from: phatsphere on May 16, 2017, 07:52:18 PM

You also cannot by the entire company by their shares. E.g. if I had a GOOG share and I don't sell it, you can jump around as much as you want and you won't get it.

Sure you can, it happens all the time in buyouts and mergers.

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/5-facts-about-stock-buyouts-that-may-surprise-you-cm217964

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If you don't want to sell, then there isn't much you can do to block a deal

For example, the Dell deal.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131029006453/en/Dell-Completes-Go-Private-Transaction

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Dell stockholders will receive ... $13.88 per share in cash.

Whether you (as a minor shareholder) agreed with the buyout or not, your share got sold for cash.

Yep. Hapenned to me when Telefonica/Movistar adquired its filial Terra. Didn't want to sell, yet my shares got converted to a ridiculous small number of Telefonica shares.