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Equity Cap
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Equity cap
An agreement in which one party, for an up-front premium, agrees to pay the other at specific time periods if a designated stock market benchmark tops a predetermined level.

Equity Cap
1. The maximum amount of equity in a company an investor or class of investors is allowed to hold. A government may place an equity cap on the amount of equity a foreign national or company may possess in domestic companies, or in certain industries thought to be important.

2. Informal for equity capital. Equity capital is money raised by owners of a company. A common example of equity capital is the funding raised by issuing stock.


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