The corporate world is ending a five-year binge on capital spending, which has left it with a much higher ratio of fixed costs than when we started this recovery in 1991.
Cnooc said it will continue to track its debt-to-equity ratio to make it comparable with its peers, and will maintain healthy and stable financials.
The company has disclosed it held a private meeting with Ratio to discuss buying a small share of another, unstudied offshore gas license.
Bonhams say that the car's eight-litre, six-cylinder engine with a low gearing ratio allowed "it to creep powerfully through the roughshod jungles of Rajasthan".
Apple did it more efficiently, with a much lower ratio of research and development spending vs.
It's also an undeniably smart move to go with an aspect ratio that's much closer to the standard widescreen of 16:9, which should make it a much more enjoyable device to watch videos on.
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.
With an annual portfolio turnover ratio of 561%, it has estimated transaction fees of 4.74% annualized over three years.
Amex passed the test, which among other things assumed a dramatic 50% drop in equity markets and 21% decline in home prices, with a 10.8% capital ratio, meaning it is well capitalized to weather an economic storm.
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It features a Sharp LCD touchscreen with 16:9 aspect ratio (uncommon for a tablet).
Given its debt-to-asset ratio, it could load up the company with debt, says Wright.
The creation of VideoGameWriters.com brought with it an opportunity to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the gaming press.
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While this ETF is not actively managed like the CGM Focus Fund, it does track many of the same names with an expense ratio of just 0.2%.
And it is widely predicted that the central bank will soon announce measures to curb credit growth by increasing the ratio of bank deposits that must be kept with it in reserve.
So all else being equal, which they never are of course, a bank with a lower leverage ratio is a safer bank, because it has relatively more capital to protect depositors from losses.
It has a yield of 1.6% with an expense ratio of 0.19%, and gives one good exposure to the major oil companies.
Last year, if an investor randomly picked a fund with an expense ratio of 0.86% or less, putting it in the cheapest quintile of funds, he would have had a 45% chance of beating the index, according to Morningstar, instead of the 35% chance if he had picked any fund.
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It should be noted that the preferred shares are convertible, with a conversion ratio of 83.668.
It has an annual expense ratio of 0.40%, with gold held in vaults in London.
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It should be noted that the preferred shares are convertible, with a conversion ratio of: 20.
It should be noted that the preferred shares are convertible, with a conversion ratio of 0.846.
Earlier this month, it had a current dividend yield of 3.32% with a payout ratio of 33%.
It should be noted that the preferred shares are convertible, with a conversion ratio of 1.7361 to 2.0833.
It should be noted that the preferred shares are convertible, with a conversion ratio of 0.4582 to 0.5682 .
So for example, a country with 100% debt-to-GDP ratio would be expected to cut it by 2% a year.
JPMorgan Chase ( JPM - news - people ), for example, finished 2009 with a tier one capital ratio of 11.1%, a figure it boasted about in a press release.
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