Texas Instruments' stockholder equity dropped from $13.1 billion in 2004 to $11.9 billion in 2005, a decrease of 9.2 percent.

Net worth, as measured by stockholder equity, has steadily grown from $17.9 billion in March 2002 to $35.6 billion through December 2011.

American Home's return on stockholder equity has been 30 percent or better for more than a decade.

Fannie Mae said its stockholder equity had risen about $8 billion in 2003, after factoring out dividend payments and stock repurchases.

The action will increase Mellon's reserves to well above regulatory standards but will reduce stockholder equity to a low level by industry standards.

First Executive's stockholder equity, a common measure of a company's financial condition, declined sharply in 1990, to $378 million, from $1.01 billion.

They are worried that sales at distressed prices would wipe out remaining stockholder equity at dozens of ailing banks and savings institutions.

And surely he said $1.2 million in reduced stockholder equity, not $1.2 billion.

"It's a reallocation of stockholder equity."

One notable element of Charter's bankruptcy was stockholder equity.