单词 | return on capital |
释义 | > as lemmasreturn on capital e. return on capital and variants: the financial benefit achieved (or achievable) through the investment of capital or other assets in trade (see quots.), esp. as a measure of performance. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > return from capital or investment return on capital1776 pay-off1955 payback1959 1776 T. Pownall Let. to A. Smith 24 A Circuitous Trade or commerce is that by which receiving, with the due profits of the return of capital, some article of trade or some commodity, which is better to go to market with than money, I go to market with that commodity so received. 1807 Rep. Comm. Commerc. State West India Colonies (House of Commons) App. 19 What, according to the best average computation you can make, may be the expence attaching in the West Indies to the production of 1 cwt. of Muscovado or Raw Sugar over and above the produce of Rum,..exclusive of any allowance of return on capital? 1849 H. Scrivenor Railways U.K. Statistically Considered 55 On £4,945,231 assumed return on capital invested on subsidiary lines as per schedule 3. 1879 Pop. Sci. Monthly Feb. 446 Were it found that the average return on capital in publishing was larger than in other businesses, there would immediately be more publishers,and competition would lower the returns. 1938 W. L. Crum in Harvard Business Rev. 16 336 The return on invested capital is one of the most significant..among possible measures of corporate performance. No entirely satisfactory determination of the average rate of return on invested capital..can be made, but data accumulated over recent years..enable us to prepare a fairly close estimate. 1962 A. Battersby Guide to Stock Control x. 94 ‘Return on capital’ has been used in this book as a concise description of the cost of holding stocks, for two principal reasons—it is often the predominant cost and the most readily variable. 1970 M. Greener Penguin Dict. Commerce 285 Return on capital, a rather nebulous phrase. In the terminology of investment analysis and accounting it means the profit earned by capital... In company accounts return on capital is often the ratio that the profit bears to the total equity funds or shareholders' funds employed... The phrase ‘return on capital’ is frequently used when what is really meant is dividend yield or earnings yield. 2007 G. Clark Farewell to Alms i. ix. 168 So typically in England the nominal return on assets..provided a good measure of the real return on capital before 1800. < as lemmas |
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