Also on the plus side were a more than doubling of net current assets, to 769 million pounds and a debt-to-equity ratio that actually improved to 0.7 from 1.1 the previous year.

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Be wary of outfits that have a high ratio of debt to tangible net worth (that's the net worth minus paper assets like goodwill).

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