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Equity may refer to:
Finance, accounting and ownership
- Equity (finance), ownership of assets that have liabilities attached to them
- Stock, equity based on original contributions of cash or other value to a business
- Home equity, the difference between the market value and unpaid mortgage balance on a home
- Private equity, stock in a privately held company
- The equity method of accounting for large investment interests
Business, justice and law
- 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 population-proportionate group inclusion and credentialing 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 the hiring of disenfranchised minorities
- Health equity, fairness and justice in health and healthcare
Education and social sciences
Companies and organizations
The word equity is also used in the names of the following companies and organizations:
Companies
- 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
- EQ Office, one of the largest owners and managers of office buildings in the United States
Organizations
- 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 (British trade union) (formerly British Actors' Equity Association), an association in the United Kingdom
- Transportation Equity Network, American organization advocating equity-based transportation policies
Other
- 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
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