Were it not for this bit of accounting legerdemain, the true Debt to GDP ratio would show up as a ratio of 119 percent.
But even by the end of the decade its debt as a ratio of GDP will be 120% - the same as Italy's now.
Both companies are similarly valued if you look at market capitalization plus debt as a ratio of earnings before accounting charges, a common valuation tool for telecom firms.
Debt is a bit high, and liquidity a tad low, as measured by a current ratio below 1.
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Economists have posited a 90% debt-to-GDP ratio as a tipping point, but in practice there's a wide range of experiences.
Qatar Holding, which owns about 12% of Xstrata, had said it would block the merger as it wanted a ratio of 3.25.
It said that while this was progress, it was "not the destination", as it believes a ratio in the mid-30s is a sustainable position in the medium term.
Apple selling since September has shot down the share price about 20% and put its share price valuations into old school company territory, as in a PE ratio of about 12.
Over the years, I have found that even a short interest ratio as low as 5, when combined with a positive technical pattern, can set up a good trading opportunity.
That led to the widespread use of the Sharpe ratio as a measurement tool.
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Its stock has soared over the past year, not so much on rising profits as on a rising PE ratio.
But here is where we bump up against my point: the fallacy of the PEG ratio as a valuation measure.
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He specifically cites and disparages his previous book, Superstocks, that introduced the price-to-sales ratio as a way to find undervalued stocks.
It included the staff-student ratio as a measure of teaching quality.
As a result, the ratio of output to input for those final-goods producers, which is to say their productivity, would be higher: it would reflect the unmeasured improvement in service-supplier productivity after all.
It also includes the price-earnings ratio as a basic valuation measure, the earnings growth rate to examine recent growth, and the 52-week relative price strength to highlight stock market performance relative to other companies.
Many analysts have attempted to value gold in other ways, such as by assuming a constant ratio between the gold price and consumer prices, personal incomes, the amount of U.S. dollars in circulation or the value of the world's financial assets.
Of the other 58, a handful had equal participation among the sexes, but the majority showed fewer women entrepreneurs than men -- with a ratio as low as 1:5 in South Korea, meaning there were five male entrepreneurs for every female entrepreneur.
As it happens, the Basel gurus are introducing a 33-to-1 gross leverage ratio - which many would see as a step in the right direction, but British MPs and lords on the standards commission think is too high.
As a result of excellent results, the combined ratio had a 9.9% improvement (before catastrophe losses) to 96.1% for the full year 2012.
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Would it be criminally insane to trust the banks with more discretion about how they lend and invest, so long as they never breached a relatively low leverage ratio (which research indicates might need to be as low as 10 to one, and certainly no more than 20 to one)?
Conceptually, one can think of the final PRVit score as a ranking based on the ratio of intrinsic value (calculated from performance and risk) relative to current market value.
Similarly, if a high balance is reported as your credit limit and your spending is fairly consistent, your utilization ratio will hover near 100% on a monthly basis as well.
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"This is in spite of the fact the prison as a whole, has a high staff-to-prisoner ratio when compared with other prisons, " he said.
Their prices average about seven times this year's expected earnings, compared with a price-earnings ratio of about 11 for emerging markets as a whole.
The company reported a decline in operating income of 3% year-over-year as the operating ratio increased four-tenths of a percent to 70.5% from 70.1%.
As the ratio goes down, a car is transformed from a locomotive to a rocket.
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Not quite as good but a better price performance ratio than the now more expensive palladium.
The Integrity Index identifies companies that have promising increases in dividends while still honoring a low payout ratio as well.
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Some experts argue that youth unemployment is better and more accurately represented by using a ratio, calculated as the share of total number unemployed.
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