A statement of shareholder equity can tell you if your business is doing well or if it's time to fine-tune some of your ...

I am responding to Kevin Tice’s recent letter on equity. Tice wrote: “The concept of equity is literally discrimination whereby one group is favored and treated differently than another group.” Here ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Stockholders' equity is the value of assets a company has remaining after eliminating all its liabilities. Companies with positive trending shareholder equity tend to be in good fiscal health. Those ...

The return on equity and its more expansive variant, the return on invested capital, measure what a company is making on the capital it has invested in business, and is a measure of business quality.

Discover the differences between debt and equity financing, including costs, risks, and potential returns, to help you make ...