The term Aktiengesellschaft, abbreviated AG, is the German name for a stock corporation which is limited by shares and owned by shareholders; their shares may be traded at the stock market. Its form is roughly equivalent to the public limited company in the UK or the publicly held/open corporation in the USA. The term can be also found hyphenated as Aktien-Gesellschaft; an older spelling form would be Actien-Gesellschaft.
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