It was recently announced by the Yamaha Corporation that there will be a sale of shares. We are talking about shares worth $8 million. These actually represent the holdings the Yamaha Corporation has at the Yamaha Motor Co. With shares worth this huge sum of money, this made Yamaha the majority shareholder and they will definitely hold their position as greatest shareholder even if the deal is to go through. It should also be noted that if this deal were ever to go through, there will be a significant benefit of close to 4 billion dollars. So just as some other go about the sale of shares. Yamaha shares will be sold to security companies whose names will not be disclosed. These security companies will in turn sell these shares in the open market and that is how each and everyone gets his own share of the pie.<\/p>\n
Also Read: BMW S1000RR Review<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n It is worth noting that though we have the Yamaha Corporation which is some sort of a “mother corporation” the motorcycle division which was previously a\u00a0\u00a0 subsidiary to this mother cooperation got an independent stand in 1955 as it broke away from the Yamaha Corporation. But as earlier stated, the Yamaha corporation still remains the majority shareholder with 42,642,790 of these shares in this division. So, if we were to do the math, if the sale of shares is to go through, this will see the company losing about 2.3% of what it used to have as voting power within this division. This will leave it at 9.9% of shares which if calculated gives about 34,642,790 shares. This will definitely have an impact on the company as a whole. Reason being, at a percentage of 9.93% the Yamaha corporation is still the greatest single shareholder of the motorcycle division, but given that it has fallen below the 10% baseline, it loses its tag of “majority shareholder”.\u00a0 This 10% was the threshold that was agreed upon for any party to be called a majority shareholder.<\/p>\n