Shareholder vs. Stakeholder: What's the Difference? https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/... A stakeholder is anyone who is impacted by a company or organization's decisions, regardless of whether they have ownership in that company. Shareholders are those who have partial ownership of a company because they have bought stock in it. "All shareholders are stakeholders", but not all stakeholders are shareholder… CCAA makes no dofference.