>Companies literally keep a big list of all the people who have shares and how many, in case they want to send out a dividend or something. If they think it is

>Companies literally keep a big list of all the people who have shares and how many, in case they want to send out a dividend or something. If they think it is important to check it is easy to do once they have a name. I thought companies only knew the brokerage, and it was the brokerage who could tie it back to a specific person ?