stockholders' equity
Americannoun
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Yet profitability is high: Chevron earned 19 percent on stockholders’ equity last year.
From BusinessWeek • May 1, 2011
It has a strong balance sheet, with debt only 11 percent of stockholders’ equity.
From BusinessWeek • May 1, 2011
In the fiscal year that ended in January, the company posted a red-hot return on stockholders’ equity, 38 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
Coster proposed a stockholders' equity receivership to get rid of the wholesalers, but Mr. Catchings talked him out of that.
From Time Magazine Archive
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