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

Equity (law), 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

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

Equity Group Holdings Limited, a financial services provider in East Africa, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with international subsidiaries
Equity Bank (Uganda), a subsidiary of the above company
Equity Industries, an electronics subsidiary of Chiaphua Components Group
Equity Music Group, a defunct American country music record label, founded by Clint Black
Equity Office Properties Trust, one of the largest owners and managers of office buildings in the United States

Actors' Equity Association, United States labor union of actors and stage managers
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

Equity, Ohio, a community in the United States
In poker strategy, a player's expected share of the pot
Brand equity, in marketing, the value built up in a brand
Equity (film), a 2016 American film directed by Meera Menon
Equity, also known as Ehrhardt, a font designed by Matthew Butterick
Environmental equity, refers to the equal dispersion of risks associated with the environment, and is described as a culmination of intergenerational equity, social equity, geographic equity, and procedural equity.^[1]

↑ Moseley, Perramond, Hapke, Laris, William, Eric, Holly, Paul (2014). An Introduction to Human-Environment Geography: Local Dynamics and Global Processes. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4051-8931-6.

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