As a result, the firms' return on common shareholder equity, or ROE, which measures the efficiency of a company's earnings power, has collapsed.

因此，这些银行反映盈利效率的指标——普通股东权益回报率都大幅下降。

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If a company that you own stock in goes bankrupt, as a common shareholder, you won't receive money until the creditors, bondholders and preferred shareholders have all been paid off.

假如你所持股票的所属公司破产了，除非是债权人、债券持有人及大股东获得了赔偿，否则你作为普通股票持有者将无法将钱收回。

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Assuming that those were common stock shares, it seems unlikely that eBay as a minority shareholder has any real influence over the strategic direction of the company.

假定这些股份是普通股，eBay作为Craigslist的少数股东，对公司战略方向的影响是微不足道的。

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But as a common shareholder.

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Or like the need to build equity capital to meet higher regulatory requirements, lest at some point they are forced to dilute shareholder value by having to issue more common stock.

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