company that offers its securities for sale to the general public
A public company is a business that sells its ownership shares (called securities) to anyone in the general public who wants to buy them. This matters because it allows regular people to own a piece of successful companies and potentially earn returns on their investment, while giving companies a way to raise money for growth.
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The New York Stock Exchange Building in 2015
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).