The combination of slow economic growth, a rising debt-to-GDP ratio and a very high ratio of debt to exports make the debt burden unsustainable.
Italy has a high debt to GDP ratio: this is fine, as long as Italy can grow faster than the interest accumulates on the debt.
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).
All the acquisitions mean a high debt-to-capital ratio of 49%, versus 35% for peers.
Using big loans to finance expansion, it has a sky-high debt-to-equity ratio of more than 300%.
Worries about export earnings, given Argentina's high debt-to-export ratio, increase the interest-rate spread the country pays over United States interest rates, which have themselves risen this year.
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Or you may have a high debt-to-income ratio, anything that puts you sort of outside the realm of traditional prime lending, but you're not as risky as a subprime borrower.
That seems reasonable, since the main reason that Thailand's currency, the baht, collapsed two years ago was a high ratio of short-term foreign debt to foreign reserves.
In neither case is their debt-to-GDP ratio particularly high less than 50% for Malaysia and below 30% for Vietnam but any increase in this ratio could prompt a re-evaluation, particularly for Vietnam, which also suffers from high inflation and a weak banking sector.
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High GDP growth and inflation eventually brought down the debt-to-GDP ratio.
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In 1988, he got attracted to International Dairy Queen and bought 50 shares of its class A stock mainly because he thought it was a company that Buffett would favor, given its good products, easy-to-understand operations, high returns on equity, little debt, and a reasonable price-earnings ratio.
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Debt is a bit high, and liquidity a tad low, as measured by a current ratio below 1.
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It's important to know the generally acceptable debt-to-equity ratio for companies within an industry before you respond to a high number by dumping a stock.
Crew is a Wall Street darling, as you can see in its high enterprise multiple, defined as the ratio of enterprise value (market value of common, plus debt, minus cash) to Ebitda (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).
And the debt ratio actually rose, to 170% of GDP in 1930 and 190% in 1933, as high real rates and declining output wiped out the benefits of a primary surplus.
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