Equity

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Equity may refer to:

Finance, accounting and ownership

• Equity (finance), the value of an ownership interest in property, including shareholders' equity in a business. Equity or shareholders´ equity is part of the total capital of a business.
  • Stock, the generic term for common equity securities is 'stocks'
  • Home equity, the difference between the market value and unpaid mortgage balance on a home
  • Private equity, stock in a privately held company
  • Equity in income of affiliates, an accounting term referring to the consolidated or unconsolidated ownership in affiliate companies

Fairness

• Equity (legal concept), a branch of jurisprudence in common law jurisdictions.
• Equity (economics), the study of fairness in economics
• Educational equity, the study and achievement of fairness in education
• Intergenerational equity, equality and fairness in relationships between people in different generations (including those yet to be born).
• Equity theory, on the relations and perceptions of fairness in distributions of resources within social and professional situations.
• Employment equity (Canada), policy requiring or encouraging preferential treatment in employment practices for certain designated groups
• Health equity, fairness and justice in health and healthcare

Companies and organizations

The word equity is also used in the names of the following companies and organizations:

Companies

• Equity Bank Group, a financial services provider in East Africa, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya
• Equity Bank (Uganda), a subsidiary of the Equity Bank Group
• Equity Industries, an electronics subsidiary of Chiaphua Components Group
• Equity Music Group, a country music record label
• Equity Office Properties Trust, one of the largest owners and managers of office buildings in the United States

Organizations

• Actors' Equity Association, Labor union of actors and stage managers in the United States.
• Canadian Actors' Equity Association, an association in Canada
• Forum Party of Alberta, a defunct political party from Alberta, Canada also known as the Equity Party.
• Equity (trade union) (formerly British Actors' Equity Association), an association in the United Kingdom
• Transportation Equity Network, a grassroots organization advocating equity-based transportation policies in the United States

Other

• In poker strategy, a player's expected share of the pot
• Brand equity, in marketing, the value built up in a brand

See also

• Equality (disambiguation)
• Inequality (disambiguation)