Compare and contrast mutual and stockholder-owned savings and loan associations.
Some loan and savings associations are owned by stockholders, just as commercial banks and other corporations are owned by their stockholders. Other S&Ls called mutuals are owned by their depositors. When a person deposits money in an account at a mutual S&L that person becomes a part owner of the firm. The mutual S&L's profits if any are put into a special reserve account from which dividends are paid from time to time to the owner/depositors.