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Capital Turnover
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Capital turnover
Calculated by dividing annual sales by average stockholder equity (net worth). The ratio indicates how much a company could grow its current capital investment level. Low capital turnover generally corresponds to high profit margins.

Capital Turnover
A ratio of how effectively a publicly-traded company manages the capital invested in it to produce revenues. It is calculated by taking the total of the company's annual sales and dividing it by the average stockholder equity, which is the average amount of money invested in the company. A high ratio indicates that the company is using its capital well, while a low ratio indicates the opposite. It is also called equity turnover.

capital turnover
A measure indicating how effectively investment capital is used to produce revenues. Capital turnover is expressed as a ratio of annual sales to invested capital.


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The National Stock Exchange's equity turnover fell 35 per cent to Rs 7,765 crore.
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With 377 companies worth some 680 billion zloty (165 billion euros, 248 billion dollars) traded on the WSE, it is the largest exchange in central and eastern Europe in terms of equity turnover value and market capitalisation, surpassing Vienna, according to the Federation of European Securities Exchanges.
 
 
 
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