Return On Average Equity - ROAE

  

Categories: Investing, Metrics

See: Return On Average Assets - ROAA.

Shareholders' equity measures the difference between a company's assets and its liabilities. Add up everything a company owns (that gives you the asset figure). From that, subtract everything the company owes (the liability number).

You're left with shareholders' equity, or book value. (Like Ulysses/Odysseus or Puff Daddy/P. Diddy, the term goes by two names.)

To figure out return on average equity, a company divides its net income (after taxes) by its average shareholders' equity. The average equity figure is derived by adding the amount of shareholder equity at the beginning of a financial period with the amount at the end, then dividing by two. Taking the average takes into account the change over time.

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waited return The lottery famously takes advantage of ignorant people

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which have horrible odds of any kind of decent pay

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graduate high school Right Well the time waiting is a

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big deal to in a world where the stock market

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broadly speaking doubles on its own About every eight nine

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ten twelve years Something like that This calculation is done

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over very long periods of time and it's held true

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he took thirty six years to double your money well

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thing Yeah that right there Seventy two divided by thirty

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