Current assets include investments in Portuguese banks and Portuguese TV and Internet company Zon Multimedia.
Its current ratio, a measure of liquidity, is low, with current liabilities often bigger than current assets.
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Comparing long-term debt to current assets helps measure financial stability and highlights a potentially worsening situation within a company.
Frontline wasn't a classic Graham value play since it didn't have much in the way of net current assets.
Graham liked to buy companies for less than net current assets, meaning cash, inventory and receivables minus all obligations.
Property, plant, and equipment have increased progressively, and so have non-current assets.
This is why a high current ratio (current assets divided by current liabilities) raises my level of skepticism when I look at a company.
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The Financial Times, which first reported the story on Thursday, said the sales could amount to nearly 20% of Citi's current assets, and would take place over several years.
Also on the plus side were a more than doubling of net current assets, to 769 million pounds and a debt-to-equity ratio that actually improved to 0.7 from 1.1 the previous year.
Basically, should the company ever need to sell current assets to raise cash, they would only be able to do so through selling out inventory, something that is not attractive for an investor.
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This bill should maintain - or preferably increase - current levels of funding, provide strong federal leadership for national transportation priorities, protect current assets and expand system capacity, retain the user fee principle for federal highway and transit financing, and expedite the process of transportation project review and approval.
The premium is what investors are bidding on above and beyond the cash flows from current intangible assets.
The implication of my view of the way monetary policy works for the assets of the Fed is that the current level of total assets is a result of past policy and that continued slow growth is needed to support the real economy going forward.
How much is our current mismanagement of natural assets costing the global economy today?
Under current law, retirement assets are generally not protected against an IRS levy.
Liquidity for major non-financial corporations has never been better as measured by the high ratio of liquid assets to current liabilities.
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"We continue to believe that the private market is way ahead in properly valuing newspaper assets versus current public newspaper multiples, " he wrote.
On August 10th most of Japan's 150 regional banks and smaller trust banks valued their assets for the current six-month period.
Banks should like it because interest-only mortgages earn a premium rate and they get to lock in low-risk assets at their current depressed values.
This regulation required the balance sheets of financial institutions to list assets at their current market prices every day, rather than their historical costs or their expected values based on their probable future income streams.
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Under current law, donations of assets that have risen in value, such as shares of stock, often qualify for a deduction at the full market price, enabling donors to skip paying capital-gains tax on the appreciation.
Typically a bypass trust is worded so that at the time of death assets equivalent to the current legal estate tax exemption divert to the trust, generally benefiting the children.
It has become clear that TEPCO, the operator of the Dai-Ichi plant, has covered up safety and maintenance issues for years and may have dragged its feet responding to the current crisis trying to preserve its assets.
The keener investors are to hold a country's assets, the bigger its current-account deficit will tend to be.
And a great antidote to deflation is current income: so investing in real assets that also provide yield is a double-purpose move.
All three formulas weigh current income much more heavily than accumulated assets.
If they hadn't, Zuckerman says, her current husband would be entitled to those assets, which he could bequeath to his own children or a new wife if he remarried.
Since then American spokespersons have criticised Venezuelan officials for their involvement in the drug trade, skewering the country in annual drug reports and freezing the assets of at least seven current or former Venezuelan officials.
Such assets are marked up to their current value and become part of an estate.
Instead, the yen's strength is a by-product of private sector recycling of the current account surplus and international purchases of Japanese assets.
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