Overseas Equity
More than 97 percent of New Zealand businesses have less than 1 percent overseas equity.
Similar to previous years' results, very few New Zealand businesses have more than 1 percent equity owned by overseas shareholders. The largest businesses are the most likely to have overseas equity. Just over a quarter of enterprises with 100 or more employees had 50 percent or more overseas equity.
Table 9. Percentage of Businesses with Overseas Equity by EC Size Group, at February 2006
| 2006 |
EC Size Group |
| Overseas Equity % |
0 |
1 to 5 |
6 to 9 |
10 to 19 |
20 to 49 |
50 to 99 |
100+ |
Total Enterprises |
| Less than 1% |
98.41% |
98.14% |
97.24% |
95.74% |
92.08% |
83.46% |
69.13% |
97.75% |
| 1 to 24% |
0.24% |
0.26% |
0.43% |
0.60% |
1.17% |
2.21% |
3.36% |
0.32% |
| 25 to 49% |
0.11% |
0.12% |
0.23% |
0.28% |
0.45% |
1.47% |
2.22% |
0.15% |
| 50% or more |
1.25% |
1.49% |
2.10% |
3.39% |
6.29% |
12.86% |
25.28% |
1.77% |
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