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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
- Stock, the generic term for common equity securities
- Home equity, the difference between the fair 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 refering to the consolidated or unconsolidated ownerhsip in affiliate companies
Fairness
- Equity (law), a branch of jurisprudence in common law jurisdictions
- Equity (economics), the study of fairness in economics
- In many political and legal systems, a concept encompassing ideals of justice (fairness) or equality of opportunity.
- Intergenerational equity, equality and fairness in relationships between people of different ages
- 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
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 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
- Equity Party, also known as the Forum Party of Alberta, a defunct political party from Alberta, Canada
- Equity (trade union) (formerly British Actors' Equity Association), an association in the United Kingdom
Other
- In poker strategy, a player's expected share of the pot
- Brand equity, in marketing, the value built up in a brand
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