How to Use equity capital in a Sentence

equity capital

noun
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Cash calls from companies seeking to shore up their balance sheets have been an outlier in an otherwise gloomy year globally for equity capital markets bankers and will continue to thrive as debt becomes more expensive and economies slow.
    — Julia Fioretti, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The government is providing most of the equity capital because investors are reluctant to buy shares of lenders given their concerns over profitability and asset quality.
    — Anto Antony, Bloomberg.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • DailyPay has raised over $1 billion, including $175 million in equity capital and the remainder in a revolving credit facility and a term loan.
    — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Institutions and rich investors poured $71 billion in equity capital into private real estate funds that closed last year, according to Preqin.
    — Ken Brown, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2018

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