Equity vs Shareholding - What's the difference?
equity | shareholding |
value of some business.
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, title= (legal) A legal that deals with remedies other than (l) relief, such as injunctions, divorces and similar actions.
* Macaulay
(legal) of property minus liens or other (l).
(legal) An equitable claim; an equity of redemption.
* Kent
(accounting) Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from (l).
Justice, impartiality or fairness.
* Tillotson
Owning shares.
* 1846 June, “The , Number 198 Volume 32,
The owning of shares
* 2008 , Mathias M. Siems, Convergence in Shareholder Law , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521876753, page 144,
The amount of capital held as shares
As nouns the difference between equity and shareholding
is that equity is value of some business while shareholding is the owning of shares.As an adjective shareholding is
owning shares.equity
English
(wikipedia equity)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
- Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application.
- an equity''' to a settlement, or wife's '''equity , etc.
- I consider the wife's equity to be too well settled to be shaken.
- Christianity secures both the private interests of men and the public peace, enforcing all justice and equity .
References
*shareholding
English
Adjective
(-)]G. W. Nickisson, [http://books.google.com/books?id=9D28w6Iaz1YC&pg=PA749&dq=shareholding page 749,
- Such are the returns of profits on the broad and the narrow gauge lines, which £. s. d. submits to the consideration of the shareholding world—and of the Great Western shareholders in particular.
Noun
(en noun)- Since in these countries shares are traditionally held directly by banks, other firms and the state, the problem of fiduciary shareholding arises less often.