This ratio also is helpful in evaluating dividends at money-losing companies, which defy analysis using a traditional earnings payout ratio.

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Elliott Wave analysis makes good use of this ratio as well.

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If the equity ratio is comfortable, it suggests the ragamuffin under analysis carries the capacity to refinance some of its debt unless the situation deteriorates after your entry point.

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But before its relevance could be fully determined, an analysis would need to be made of each call to determine the ratio of calls made relative to blacks, whites and Hispanics, whether other strangers who weren't black were ever seen in the complex and not called on and whether unknown black men were ever seen in the complex and the police not called.

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