Whereas Europe's average ratio of public equity value to gdp is 114% and the U.S.' ratio is nearly 200%, Germany's is just 67%.
In the meantime the total number of banks in the US continues to decline while the ratio of tangible equity to tangible assets stands higher than any time in the 1984-2010 period.
Coke has a debt to equity ratio of .99-meaning that debt is about equal to equity in the company.
That put the company's ratio of debt to equity at 5.53, compared with 2.94 a year earlier.
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Verghese notes that Olam's bankers have capped the company's ratio of debt to equity at five times.
Japanese firms are deeply indebted by the standards of other countries, with an average debt-equity ratio of 4:1.
These companies are forever seeking the right mix in their ratio of debt to equity now trying to please shareholders, now creditors.
Every Web site, with the exception of Prosper, mandates that users meet certain criteria: credit scores of approximately 640 and a debt-to-equity ratio of around 30%.
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That problem is ongoing, because Asian leverage has not declined, it's merely been transferred to the state, enabling the corporate sector to get its ratio of debt to equity down.
Equity fund investors in 2012 paid an average expense ratio of .77 percent for equity funds that are actively managed by professionals, according to the Investment Company Institute.
Using big loans to finance expansion, it has a sky-high debt-to-equity ratio of more than 300%.
This debt-financed deal will leave Allied Waste with a heart- quickening debt-to-equity ratio of 7-to-1.
One caveat: The company is highly leveraged with a debt-to-equity ratio of .95.
Colgate too has reduced its debt to equity ratio of 2.5 in 2005 to below 1 by 2009.
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With a debt to equity ratio of 60%, OC has significant although not unmanageable debt, and pays no dividend.
Mr Miles said that the optimal ratio of core tier one equity capital to risk-weighted assets would be 19%.
Unilever has reduced leverage over the past five years from a debt to equity ratio of 1.6 in 2005 to 0.73 in 2010.
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Pride is also highly leveraged with a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.173, making it the 15th most leveraged company in an industry typically associated with high debt loads.
Requiring banks to maintain a ratio of 10 percent of equity capital to total assets would make them less likely to need a government bailout in the next financial crisis.
Aside from the surprise profit and dividend cuts, the company also reported a net debt-to-equity ratio of 61%, double that of last year because of new loans, though Wu says much of that is for project financing.
Many firms deliberately manage their ratio of outstanding debt to shareholder equity.
Naturally there are many other things to consider, like the nature of the assets and liabilities, whether the company is currently making profits or losses, and the ratio of its liabilities to its equity.
The Vickers Commission, set up the chancellor, recommended that there should be a ratio of 4.06% of pure equity capital to gross loans and investments, as what is known as a "backstop leverage cap", for the biggest banks.
My Lynch-based method also likes financial intermediaries to have an equity-to-assets ratio of at least 5% and a return on assets of at least 1%.
Equity Income Fund has an expense ratio of 0.71% and an R-squared of 89%.
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In another measure, the ratio of price to tangible book value (shareholders' equity minus intangibles like goodwill), Citi is close to typical at 3.6.
Even when I diversified into property and later into multinational businesses, I was still vigilant about maintaining a healthy debt to equity ratio, well within the margin of errors.
It's yielding 4.8% and has a fortresslike tangible equity ratio (capital minus intangible assets) of 13.9%.
Its ratio of assets (loans and investments) to loss-absorbing equity capital is a fraction over 20 times, down from 50 times in the autumn of 2008, when it was rescued from the brink by taxpayers.
If a buyback raises the debt-to-equity ratio, it can lower the firm's overall cost of capital (because in most countries interest payments, unlike dividends, are tax deductible).
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