The name of a private limited company may not contain the word publikt ("public") and the name of a public limited company may not contain the word privat or pvt.
[1] A public limited company (publikt aktiebolag) is legally denoted as "AB (publ.)"
A Swedish public limited company must have a minimum share capital of 500,000 Swedish kronor and its shares can be offered to the public on the stock market.
is sometimes omitted in texts of an informal nature, but according to the Swedish Companies Registration Office, "the name of a public limited company must be mentioned with the term (publ.)
The term aktiebolag is also used in Finland Swedish, alongside the Finnish osakeyhtiö; the choice and ordering of terms tends to indicate the company's primary working language.