To the contrary, the longer he operated the team, the worse the debt equity ratios.
It amused him to claim that he was a financial dunce, uninterested in such matters as debt-to-equity ratios.
You've got companies with 500% to 600% debt-to-equity ratios and not enough profits.
Moreover, the German and French banks that hold Greek government debt would have their debt-to-equity ratios severely impaired and they could quite arguably become insolvent themselves.
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The Fed has restored family wealth to its pre-recession high-water mark and individual and institutional debt-equity ratios still rest too heavy in the fixed income sector.
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Debt is rising fast: a survey of the top 16 companies by share value showed that their debt-to-equity ratios have tripled over the past three years.
From there, the field is narrowed down to those with debt-to-equity ratios of less than 1.0, eliminating those stocks whose debt burdens may prevent them from growing distributions substantially going forward.
When I am measuring the true indebtedness of an enterprise, I like looking at liabilities as a percentage of oversimplified enterprise value even more than I like looking at debt to equity ratios.
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This will relieve the chaebol of their crippling interest payments and help them to reduce their debt-equity ratios to a target of less than 200% (compared with 400-500% now) by the end of next year.
With the fundraising has come higher debt-to-equity ratios, which will likely soar to an average of almost 50% for the three companies this year, Bernstein Research senior analyst Neil Beveridge said, from around 20% in 2007.
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%.
In stress test results released last Thursday, Citigroup and Fifth Third Bancorp were projected by the Fed to have Tier 1 common equity ratios in excess of 8.0% in a stressed economic scenario of a deep recession, 12%-plus unemployment, a 20% slump in housing prices, and a 52% drop in U.S. stock markets.
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When choosing stocks, he concentrates on finding the right sector first and then drills down to equities with relatively attractive price-to-sales ratios and return on equity.
Regulators have got strong grounds to intervene on pay only if banks cannot make enough money, or attract enough new equity, to raise their capital ratios to the required level.
Smaller firms, which account for more than three-quarters of the economy, have ratios of debt to equity almost twice those of big companies and are thus more vulnerable to rising rates.
Greater use of leasing and factoring is reducing their ratios of bank debt to equity.
Without the equity from these assets, their various balance sheet ratios could not support any additional assets with implied risk.
Cutting the amount of assets to be supported by a given amount of equity can also help a bank improve its capital ratios.
The price ratios of MSCI Emerging Market index stocks and MSCI World Equity are converging, meaning lower beta equity prices are moving in line with higher beta.
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For long picks, the Ward Ferry team puts a lot of emphasis on such classic numbers as return on equity, free cash flow, dividend yields and price-to-book ratios.
Since its capital ratios are too low to support fast growth, SBI needs to raise more equity.
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While the rate of negative equity is comparable between the two sets of borrowers, the delinquency rate and loan-to-value ratios are substantially lower for borrowers who purchased homes in 2010 (see Figure 2).
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