How to Use equity capital in a Sentence

equity capital

noun

• For starters, most of the debt and equity capital sources are from overseas.
  — Peter Grant, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
• The Swiss bank had an equity capital ratio of 13.5% as of the end of June, considered strong among its peers.
  — Margot Patrick, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2022
• In the run-up to the crisis, banks on average kept about 8 to 10% of their assets as equity capital.
  — Alan Greenspan, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2018
• At the time, Faure was global head of the legal team in charge of debt and equity capital markets.
  — Gaspard Sebag, Fortune, 4 June 2024
• The fifth farm, in Baltimore, will be Gotham Greens’ biggest to date, and has raised $45 million in equity capital.
  — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2019
• The rest of VW’s investment will buy a 20% stake in Northvolt itself, as part of an equity capital raise by the company.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 13 June 2019
• The amount of equity capital raised in London was up over 38% year-over-year—more than the next two biggest European exchanges combined.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 16 May 2024
• Hong Kong’s equity capital markets are perking up, after a punishing first half for what has long been one of the world’s largest venues for stock issuance.
  — Dave Sebastian, WSJ, 8 July 2022
• In other words, there is plenty of scope to replace dear equity capital with cheap debt capital.
  — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
• Entering the throes of the crisis as the smallest bank by market value of those five, Morgan Stanley took moves to bolster the bank’s equity capital by issuing more shares.
  — Michael Wursthorn, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
• Its own central-bank governor reckons equity capital is taxed up to five times.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• The growing supply of private forms of equity capital is even more remarkable.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• Stricter regulation of European banks since the financial crisis has required that banks hold more equity capital than in the past.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2018
• Net earnings from markets were up 130% from a year earlier, even though the business had only 3% more equity capital allocated to it.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2020
• James said the group now leads multiple calls a week to help members access equity capital to increase their service capacity.
  — Chauncey Alcorn, CNN, 9 June 2021
• The purchase price is expected to be funded by a combination of equity capital from new and existing.
  — Evan Clark, WWD, 3 July 2024
• The rental giant emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June, with restructuring and fresh equity capital having slashed its debt levels by 80%.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2021
• Both firms are expected to directly access the debt and equity capital markets to fund their respective growth strategies.
  — Joe Cornell, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
• In this sense, Piketty is like a modern-day Ricardo, betting too much on the significance of one asset in the long run: namely, the kind of sophisticated equity capital that the wealthy happen to hold today.
  — Tyler Cowen, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2014
• For bankers, the sudden rush is a happy surprise in an otherwise quiet year for equity capital markets, when IPOs have been in a rut, on track for their slowest year in decades, and follow-on stock offerings also have been rather anemic.
  — Corrie Driebusch, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
• Out of view for most of us, supermarkets are changing hands, with more transnational and private equity capital ownership.
  — Ramón Borges-Méndez, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• There have been two significant changes in the past year – one is the rapid adoption of digital services and the other is positive receptivity of the equity capital markets for new listings.
  — Jack McCullough, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• Revenue at the investment bank’s unit that houses advisory as well as debt and equity capital markets services rose 52% from a year earlier.
  — Myriam Balezou, Fortune Europe, 7 May 2024
• The latter could include requiring money funds to be backed by equity capital in the way that banks are—although similar proposals have been rejected before.
  — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 19 July 2021
• Bank of America recently ranked first in the debt capital markets league tables in the U.S. and fifth in equity capital markets, according to first-quarter bank filings citing Dealogic.
  — Liz Hoffman, WSJ, 3 May 2018
• As recently outlined in a major study, business owners of color overall, both male and female, are plagued by the challenges of finding equity capital to launch a new venture, or of accessing bank credit for expansion.
  — Charisse Conanan Johnson, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2020
• Historically, the role of private equity capital in the oil industry hasn't been to fund substantial production gains, but to prove oil and gas can be captured economically.
  — Collin Eaton, Houston Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2018
• Tesla would be wise to take advantage of its surprisingly strong quarter to raise as much equity capital as possible given those obligations.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2018
• That cancellation, coupled with the termination of a Series B equity capital round and the inability to close a senior debt financing deal plunged the company into a cash flow crisis.
  — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 12 Feb. 2020
• Adding to that is that many emerging market success stories raise equity capital on American financial markets.
  — Radu Magdin, Forbes, 29 June 2021

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024