stockholders' equity
Americannoun
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The Peoria, Illinois-based company has debt amounting to more than twice stockholders’ equity.
From BusinessWeek ● May 1, 2011
Yet profitability is high: Chevron earned 19 percent on stockholders’ equity last year.
From BusinessWeek ● May 1, 2011
In 2010 it posted a return on stockholders’ equity of almost 24 percent.
From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 27, 2011
Potential losses look more serious when compared with stockholders' equity, which can be thought of as what a bank would have left if it paid off its depositors and creditors.
From Time Magazine Archive
Damon, who inherited a debt of $56 million and only $6,000,000 in stockholders' equity, has upped the equity to $53 million and held the debt to $60.5 million.
From Time Magazine Archive
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