To the contrary, the longer he operated the team, the worse the debt equity ratios.
Korean Air is not the only South Korean firm with excessive borrowing: the top 30 chaebol have around five times as much debt as equity, and the five conglomerates that went bust this year all had debt-to-equity ratios of more than 400%.
Coke has a debt to equity ratio of .99-meaning that debt is about equal to equity in the company.
The main difference between debt and equity is that debt has to be serviced, in good times and bad.
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In debt exchanges, companies typically ask creditors to swap current debt for equity, new debt with a lesser value that matures later, or a combination of the two.
While we had the option to try to raise debt or equity capital, we knew debt capital was incredibly difficult to raise in the current economic environment.
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This both increases the volatility of equity returns and transfers value from debt to equity in the presence of default risks but has little to do with the Modigliani-Miller theorem in which default risk plays no part.
Stephen Pope is the chief global equity strategist of Cantor Fitzgerald in London, covering debt and equity markets as well as economics, politics and corporate strategy.
In the case of John Ramig, however, whether his advances to his corporation represented debt or equity would mean the difference between taking an ordinary worthless debt deduction under Section 166 when the debt went bad, or be stuck with a capital loss upon liquidation in some future year.
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With a debt to equity ratio of 60%, OC has significant although not unmanageable debt, and pays no dividend.
The Templeton Emerging Markets Balanced Fund (TAEMX) invests in both emerging markets debt and equity.
These closed-end products offer a chance to invest in the debt and equity of private companies.
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But American trusts can't issue new debt or equity, so their reserves are a dwindling asset.
Greater use of leasing and factoring is reducing their ratios of bank debt to equity.
This complex and risky hybrid of debt and equity was sometimes sold as a safe investment.
Germany is waiting for details of a debt-equity swap that Russia proposed last month.
Relatively low profitability has not often prevented major Japanese firms from attracting capital, either debt or equity.
Traditionally CDOs buy assets at par and use the cash flows to pay debt and equity investors.
That put the company's ratio of debt to equity at 5.53, compared with 2.94 a year earlier.
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When we are working on complex debt or equity issues, I rely heavily on my financial VCs.
The strings: GMAC had to convert 75% of its debt to equity by last Friday at midnight.
There has been explosive growth in new financial products bridging the old gap between debt and equity.
Verghese notes that Olam's bankers have capped the company's ratio of debt to equity at five times.
This would put stocks and bonds on an equal footing and slow the substitution of debt for equity.
Even Hyundai Motors, Korea's largest and most sophisticated automaker, is carrying 3.5 times as much debt as equity.
In the first three years in business, VTB Capital has participated in 170 debt and equity capital transactions.
Colgate too has reduced its debt to equity ratio of 2.5 in 2005 to below 1 by 2009.
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Japanese firms are deeply indebted by the standards of other countries, with an average debt-equity ratio of 4:1.
If the ratio is greater than one, the company is operating more on the basis of debt than equity.
Alibaba intends to finance the repurchase through a combination of its own cash resources, debt, equity and equity-linked financing.
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