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capital assets

British  

plural noun

  1. another name for fixed assets

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She was also part of WSJ teams that were awarded Pulitzer Prizes for national reporting on Elon Musk in 2025, and for the Capital Assets series in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal

The cost over 10 years, according to the Yale Budget Lab, would be $169 billion if the indexing rule were imposed only on newly purchased capital assets, but nearly $1 trillion if it were applied retrospectively to stocks and bonds already held by investors.

From Los Angeles Times

Because the index tracks changes in the price of purchased goods, it’s not necessarily the right measure to adjust the values of capital assets such as stocks and bonds.

From Los Angeles Times

Still, being asset-light means the balance sheets of many tech companies are stocked with intangible assets, including patents and licenses, rather than capital assets, such as factories or specialized equipment.

From MarketWatch

Ted Mortonson, managing director at Baird, has his eyes on one metric: free cash flow, or the money left over after a company spends on its operations and capital assets.

From MarketWatch