Equity

"Inequity" redirects here. For the absence of equality, see Inequality.

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), 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

• Social equity

Companies and organizations

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

Companies

• 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
• American Society of Equity, United States agrarian reform organization
• Canadian Actors' Equity Association, an association in Canada
• Equity (British trade union) (formerly British Actors' Equity Association), an association in the United Kingdom
• Forum Party of Alberta, a defunct political party from Alberta, Canada also known as the Equity Party
• 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
• In backgammon, the average expected value that will be won or lost
• Brand equity, in marketing, the value built up in a brand
• Equity (film), a 2016 American film directed by Meera Menon
• Equity (typeface), also known as Ehrhardt, a font designed by Matthew Butterick
• Urban forest inequity

See also

• Equity Bank (disambiguation)
• Equality (disambiguation)
• Inequality (disambiguation)