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The Chinese company then spent the next decade struggling under the debt it took on for the purchase and technology quickly became obsolete.
Meanwhile, despite their faster growth potential, high profit margins and little to no debt, many technology companies are trading at valuations below that of the broader market, he says.
Unlike slower-changing industries like supermarkets, which can appropriately assemble a balance sheet with more debt, technology is an inherently risky business and needs a strong balance sheet to survive.
Now much of the debt is passed on to drug companies and health-care technology suppliers.
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Those technology companies with strong balance sheets--and little debt--may soon start doing some bargain-basement shopping for smaller tech shops.
Following the U.S. debt downgrade, we see more cyclical technology industries, such as semiconductors and semiconductor equipment, as more vulnerable, reflecting greater macroeconomic uncertainties and potential challenges associated with supply-chain financing.
It is part of any, we think, balanced approach towards reducing our deficits and getting our spending and revenues in line in a way that puts our fiscal house in order, reduces our long-term debt, allows for the investments that we need in education, research and development, energy technology, to be economically competitive and dominant in the 21st century.
Technology companies usually are not highly geared, since they are capitalized more through equity than debt and usually have very little foreign debt.
The materials and technology sectors led an advance in U.S. stocks as worries about Europe's debt crisis eased.
Moreover, the technology companies that tend to acquire such start-ups are extremely cash-generative and relatively debt-free, making them pretty aggressive acquirers.
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