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How do you find the Total Shareholder Return for a company? If you know how, would you be able to help me figure it out for Microsoft in 2016?
Total shareholder return or return on equity can be calculated using the following formula:
Return on equity = Net Income/ Average Shareholder’s equity
For the Microsoft Corporation, we have following data for the year 2016:
Net income = $ 16,798,000,000
Beginning shareholder’s equity = 9,43,89,000,000
Ending shareholder’s equity = 12,14,71,000,000
Average shareholder’s equity = (94,389,000,000 + 121,471,000,000)/2
= $107,930,000,000
Return on equity = $ 16,798,000,000 / $107,930,000,000
= 15.56%