The $61 billion worth of equity capital that had been raised since early 1991 is a big number.

The class A stock represents 22 percent of the company's equity capital.

And no significant efforts were made to raise equity capital.

The 2% difference makes income of $80 and another $100 is made by the return on equity capital.

The firm has over $2.9 billion in equity capital under management as of April 2012.

In 2007, the bank had initial equity capital of $100 million.

Certain individuals own the remaining 0.11% of the total equity capital between them.

"We want to make sure that tax rates remain low on equity capital."

That will be hard to do without fresh equity capital.

For the most part these businesses have little equity capital.

Some, though, have found an unusual way to put their home equity to work.

And while mortgage payments build home equity, insurance does not.

States generally do not ask about home equity when making those decisions, and the federal government stopped doing so during the Clinton administration.

Most of these areas have also seen large increases in home equity.

And that's been particularly the case with the boom in home equity.

But home equity does not work the same way.

Today, for the first time since the early 1970's, stock holdings have jumped well past the the value of home equity.

In economics, home equity is sometimes called real property value.

Many home equity plans set a fixed period during which the person can borrow money, such as 10 years.

Most contemporary wealth is built on the concept of home equity.

That will cut shareholder equity at more than a few companies.

In last year's third quarter, the return on shareholder equity was a negative 58.9 percent.

He said that "shareholder equity would have been reduced" as a result.

Over all, the company said the corrections would reduce shareholder equity by $2.7 billion.

Intel's shareholder equity, which stood at $38.6 billion in 2004, fell 6.2 percent last year.

Borrowing costs will also make a dent in shareholder equity.

It accounts for more than 95 percent of all the shares listed and the shareholder equity in the country.

Enron also announced a reduction in shareholder equity of more than a billion dollars.

Recent special dividends have depleted 94% of the shareholder equity.

Enron has also said it made a "mistake" that put an extra $1 billion into shareholders equity.