• cattywampas@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Costco is publicly traded, anybody can buy their stock. Blackrock owning it should be irrelevant to public opinion of the company.

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      It’s also probably mostly BlackRock index funds. Which means tons of retail investors are part of this ownership.

    • iamthetot@piefed.ca
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      Well, except that I’m theory, owning a lot of shares in a company gives you some leverage over that company to drive its policies and direction.