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Equity vs Shareholding - What's the difference?

equity | shareholding |

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

  • value of some business.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • (legal) A legal that deals with remedies other than (l) relief, such as injunctions, divorces and similar actions.
  • * Macaulay
  • Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application.
  • (legal) of property minus liens or other (l).
  • (legal) An equitable claim; an equity of redemption.
  • an equity''' to a settlement, or wife's '''equity , etc.
  • * Kent
  • I consider the wife's equity to be too well settled to be shaken.
  • (accounting) Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from (l).
  • Justice, impartiality or fairness.
  • * Tillotson
  • Christianity secures both the private interests of men and the public peace, enforcing all justice and equity .

    References

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    shareholding

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Owning shares.
  • * 1846 June, “The , Number 198 Volume 32, ] 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)
  • The owning of shares
  • * 2008 , Mathias M. Siems, Convergence in Shareholder Law , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521876753, page 144,
  • Since in these countries shares are traditionally held directly by banks, other firms and the state, the problem of fiduciary shareholding arises less often.
  • The amount of capital held as shares