Example sentences for: holdings

How can you use “holdings” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • First, there is no difference between a portfolio manager who recommends stocks in an interview to a reporter--which is the meat and potatoes of financial journalism--and a portfolio manager who recommends stocks in a column of his own--which is considered controversial--except that the second portfolio manager reveals his holdings while the first one doesn't have to.

  • Traditionally, real estate has represented households' largest asset; while the total value of households' real estate holdings grew by 50 percent over the 1990s, real estate steadily declined as a share of households' total assets from 31 percent in 1990 to 23 percent in 1999.

  • Individual shareholders then decide whether to sell their holdings; if the acquirer doesn't win a controlling stake, the offer is rescinded and the shares returned.

  • Within a week the snoop had discovered his unlisted phone numbers, bank balances, stock holdings, and salary, as well as the phone numbers of everyone he calls.

  • But a series of antitrust decisions after World War II ended these practices and forced the studios to divest themselves of their theater holdings, while also encouraging the development of independent production companies.


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