Neither of these two things are true.

Public companies are legally required to put shareholder interest first - that’s what the whole point of this facet of capitalism is: to provide profit to the “owner” class of society, at the cost of worker exploitation.

Get Adam Smith’s boot out of your mouth and recognize that literally anything a corporation does is for the goal of profit. Corporations are not human - and only have a decision making process that puts “return” first. Zero of them are “not evil.”

No, they are not. And they definitely aren't required to care about the interests of 49% of them.

> Get Adam Smith’s boot out of your mouth and recognize that literally anything a corporation does is for the goal of profit.

Is everything an animal does for the purpose of finding food? (No.)