2011-12 0.97% 5.19% Shareholder\'s Equity (5 Year Growth) Total Capital Stock Re
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2011-12 0.97% 5.19% Shareholder's Equity (5 Year Growth) Total Capital Stock Retained Earnings Additional Paid In Capital Treasury Stock Adjustments for Foreign Currency Translation Shareholders Equity 2017-12 0.17% -2.69% 2016-12 0.17% 0.25% 2015-12 0.17% 1.32% 0.39% 14.75% 2014-12 0.00% 4.21% -2.71% 5.73% 2013-12 0.00% 4,07% -4 26% 3.01% 2012-12 0.97% 4.18% 2010-12 0.97% 6.08% 2009-12 0.97% 6.69% 2008-12 0.97% 8.08% 19.69% 1.29% 13.01% 20.36% 10.95% 1.14% 21.19% 5.00% 8.33% -12.18% -8.22% -3.74% 1.79% 4.52% 1.26% 0.87% 1.69% 5.74%Explanation / Answer
The numbers are for shareholders equity or from balance sheet I should say its the Equity part.
So here in first row its written 5 year growth of Shareholder's equity between years 2012-2017. Note that these are not cummulative these are discrete percentages taken for each of the two years seperately.
total capital stock is about the total common stock outstanding and the corresponding percentages indicate how much it has grown or changed over the period of 5 years, then 4,3,2,1 years. As in 2014-12 and 2013-12 columns there is 0% which indicates no change in capital stock between this time period.
Retained earnings is simply the amount of net income retained by the company for its own growth purposes and the percentages in that row indicate how much have these changed over that time. And we can see as the % change is positive though decreasing till 2016 but in 2017 its quite negative which shows company has either retained less compared to 2012 or the overall net income has gone down quite a bit.
Additional Paid in capital is due to some extra issunace of common stock to raise equity capital. This is growth to the figures that would have been there for 2012 and hence negative percentages indicate negative growth or decrement in % change amount from 2012. This can be also if anyof the owners would have contributed to the equity of the firm.
Treasury stock is basically a contra account for the repurchased shares of a firm.And here consistent increasing % form 2012 indicated that there has been increasing amount of repurchased shares. This shows that company thinks that its stock is trading less than the intrinsic value or should simply say its undervalued and hence buys back shares. This is not a good sign for a company like General Motors.
For adjustments in foreign currency there might have been a transfer of equity funds overseas and hence there is adjustment in foreign currency. May be shares might have been transfered.
So, basically these represent the changes in the various accounts of Equity section for 5 years prior to 2012 and 5 years after 2012. Showing the changes in form of growth rates for various accounts.
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