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Table 16.—Return on Assets of Nonfinancial U.S. Affiliates and U.S. Domestic Nonfinancial Corporations, 1984-95

Nonfinancial U.S. affiliates/1/ U.S. domestic nonfinancial corporations: Rate of return/4/ (percent)
Billions of dollars Rate of return ((col.1/col.4) × 100) (percent)
Property income Total assets/3/
Total Profit-type return/2/ Monetary interest paid
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
1984 29.7 12.7 17.1 455.5 6.5 8.0
1985 24.8 9.5 15.3 477.5 5.2 8.0
1986 23.4 7.1 16.3 523.0 4.5 7.5
1987 26.6 8.7 17.9 581.8 4.6 7.8
1988 33.0 8.7 24.3 695.3 4.8 8.4
1989 37.2 4.9 32.3 856.8 4.3 8.5
1990 32.5 -5.1 37.6 1,018.9 3.2 8.3
1991 31.6 -7.6 39.2 1,123.0 2.8 8.2
1992 32.3 -3.3 35.6 1,157.1 2.8 8.2
1993 37.2 2.3 34.9 1,208.7 3.1 8.6
1994 55.1 19.8 35.3 1,289.1 4.3 9.3
1995 64.3 23.7 40.6 1,355.7 4.7 n.a.
  1. Excludes finance, except depository institutions, and insurance (in addition to depository institutions, which are excluded from all data on U.S. affiliate operations).
  2. Profit-type return as shown in table 15 plus a capital consumption adjustment (CCAdj). (Estimates of CCAdj by industry are not available.)
  3. Average of beginning- and end-of-year value.
  4. Equals the ratio of property income to total assets. Data on property income of U.S. domestic nonfinancial corporations are from tables 1.16 and 8.18 in the national income and product accounts Data on total assets are from Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Balance Sheets for the U.S. Economy, 1945-94 (Washington DC: June 1995).

n.a. Not available.