Maintaining Shareholder Value in a Company that has Reached Critical Mass

by Bjørn Møller, Teekay Shipping Corporation

The topic of my discussion is “maintaining shareholder value in a company that has reached critical mass”. To address this topic, we need to clarify what it is shareholders want. This is not intended to educate you in something you probably understand as well as I do, but the answer forms the backdrop for my comments.

Ultimately, what all shareholders want is maximization of their share price. For this to happen requires the creation of Shareholder Value. As the company’s management, everything we do should be for the long term interest of our shareholders, with the ultimate aim of raising that stock price.

However, there is an important distinction to be made between the priorities of shareholders in private companies and of those in public companies.

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