Went to My First AGM Last Friday

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So, last Friday I went to my first company Annual General Meeting. It's for a primarily local, FTSE-AllShare company with a market capitalisation of a bit over half a billion pounds. Not a huge company, but not the smallest either. I've owned shares in this company for years, but never thought of going to the AGM before. With it being a local company, the AGM was also local (unlike the other companies I currently own shares in). There wasn't a huge number of people there, maybe a dozen or so other shareholders, most quite a bit older than me. You could vote at the meeting, but frankly it likely made little difference. Most of the votes were both proxies and, probably, institutional shareholders. Still, I'm glad I went. It was interesting, and it made me feel a bit better about the company's future, something I've been uncertain of for a while. I found out some other areas it's working in other than its local quasi-monopoly. Image: Freeimages.com