Stockholders' equity is what's left when you take a company's assets and subtract its liabilities. Therefore, knowing the ending stockholders' equity balance for a particular time period gives you a ...

Public company share value is easily found via market price; private share valuation is complex. In mergers, deduct debts and payouts from the buyout sum to find common equity per share value. Deal ...

Return on equity (ROE) is a financial ratio that tells you how much profit a public company earns in comparison to the net assets it holds. ROE is very useful for comparing the performance of similar ...