How to Use equity capital in a Sentence
equity capital
noun-
The purchase price is expected to be funded by a combination of equity capital from new and existing.
— Evan Clark, WWD, 3 July 2024 -
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 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
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