股东权益回报率(Return on Equity) 简称ROE，是一个衡量股票投资者回报的指标。它亦评价企业管理层的表现—盈利能力、资产管理及财务控制。
当然，股东权益回报率绝非华尔街赖以生存的首要指标。
To be sure, ROE isn't the be-all-end-all metric that Wall Street lives by.
2011年初时高盛曾承诺，全年股东权益回报率要达到20%。
Goldman promised earlier in the year that it would hit a respectable 20% ROE in 2011.
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。
As a result, the firms' return on common shareholder equity, or ROE, which measures the efficiency of a company's earnings power, has collapsed.
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