Equity
Assets less liabilities — what would be left for the owners if everything were settled.
Equity is share capital plus reserves plus retained profit (or accumulated loss) from prior years and the current one.
Negative equity is the single most important signal on a balance sheet. It means liabilities exceed assets: accumulated losses have eaten the owners' contributions. It is not automatically insolvency — a company may be supported by shareholder or group loans — but it is not a state to be in by accident.
Equity growing year on year without new contributions means the company is earning and not distributing all of it.
Equity in figures
Values from published annual reports. 400,892 companies could be ranked — a company that did not report this figure is not in the list.
- 1АКЦІОНЕРНЕ ТОВАРИСТВО "НАЦІОНАЛЬНА АКЦІОНЕРНА КОМПАНІЯ "НАФТОГАЗ УКРАЇНИ"₴398,462,135,000
- 2АКЦІОНЕРНЕ ТОВАРИСТВО "НАЦІОНАЛЬНА АТОМНА ЕНЕРГОГЕНЕРУЮЧА КОМПАНІЯ "ЕНЕРГОАТОМ"₴264,487,177,000
- 3АКЦІОНЕРНЕ ТОВАРИСТВО "УКРГАЗВИДОБУВАННЯ"₴217,843,305,000
- 4АКЦІОНЕРНЕ ТОВАРИСТВО "УКРАЇНСЬКА ЗАЛІЗНИЦЯ"₴180,775,880,000
- 5КОМУНАЛЬНЕ ПІДПРИЄМСТВО "КИЇВСЬКИЙ МЕТРОПОЛІТЕН"₴143,811,293,000
Where this figure comes from
Row 1495 of the Balance Sheet, closing column.