direct investment

Definitions (2)

1. An investment which is sufficiently large to affect a company's subsequent decisions. This is sometimes a majority ownership, but sometimes it's just a significant minority ownership.
2. An investment through a DRIP or DPP.

Use direct investment in a sentence

We would do a direct investment with them and not waste any time beating around the bush and seeing what else we could do.


Because of the new stockholder's direct investment, the operation schedule for the factory quarter was sped up dramatically, to our benefit.


They had made a direct investment, and the move paid off massively over the next several years, with analysts that had been skeptical were now singing their praises.


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