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A company can improve its return on equity in a number of ways, but here are the five most common. 1. Use more financial leverage. Companies can finance themselves with debt and equity capital. By increasing the amount of debt capital relative to its equity capital, a company can increase its return on equity. We'll use a (fictional) lemonade stand as an example for how the use of debt can increase a company's return on equity.
Equity investments result in an increase in assets with no offsetting liability, and thus result in an increase in equity that did not come from earnings. We have to subtract any investments back out from the change in equity from year to year. Suppose a company reports the following at year end 2014: Assets: $1,000.