stockholders' equity
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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In addition, DuPont’s debt, which is a bit more than stockholders’ equity, is higher than I like.
From BusinessWeek • May 1, 2011
Yet profitability is high: Chevron earned 19 percent on stockholders’ equity last year.
From BusinessWeek • May 1, 2011
It must achieve a 30 percent return on stockholders’ equity in its latest fiscal year, and show 30 percent average annual earnings growth over the past five years.
From BusinessWeek • Apr. 10, 2011
Coster proposed a stockholders' equity receivership to get rid of the wholesalers, but Mr. Catchings talked him out of that.
From Time Magazine Archive
Actually a stock split does not of itself increase the stockholders' equity at all.
From Time Magazine Archive
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