Aside from having a higher debt-to-equity ratio than Hyundai, it was particularly dependent on short-term debts.
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.
The company pays a 2% dividend, the current ratio is 1.8 and long-term debt-to-equity is .39.
One caveat: The company is highly leveraged with a debt-to-equity ratio of .95.
We then put a number on the debt-to-equity ratio: Less than 100%, or what we call one time.
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The balance sheet must be strong with a current ratio above 1.0 and a debt-to-equity ratio below 50%.
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It amused him to claim that he was a financial dunce, uninterested in such matters as debt-to-equity ratios.
As a result, the team lowered its debt-to-equity ratio to 1.8 from 2.
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You've got companies with 500% to 600% debt-to-equity ratios and not enough profits.
It admits to being more highly geared (its net debt-to-equity ratio is 95% and rising), but not to being more risky.
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.
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.
Moreover, the German and French banks that hold Greek government debt would have their debt-to-equity ratios severely impaired and they could quite arguably become insolvent themselves.
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Debt is rising fast: a survey of the top 16 companies by share value showed that their debt-to-equity ratios have tripled over the past three years.
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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Ihe industry debt-to-equity ratio jumped from 9 percent to 18 percent over the past five years, which means there is less flexibility to do a big deal.
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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.
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).
The listed company has been cleaning up its balance sheet, bringing down the consolidated debt-to-equity ratio from 1.72 at the peak in 2009 to 0.57 this year.
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The Index measures solar players according to their financial performance and operational efficiency, with an emphasis on revenue growth, working capital, EBIT percentage and debt-to-equity, among other measures.
The current ratio is 2.7 and long-term debt-to-equity is .14.
From there, the field is narrowed down to those with debt-to-equity ratios of less than 1.0, eliminating those stocks whose debt burdens may prevent them from growing distributions substantially going forward.
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.
Number-wise, Nieman is fond of the company's dividend yield (0.9% as of Nov. 30) and low price-to-earnings, price-to-book and debt-to-equity metrics, but also sees potential in the company's active pursuit of alternative energy solutions.
With the fundraising has come higher debt-to-equity ratios, which will likely soar to an average of almost 50% for the three companies this year, Bernstein Research senior analyst Neil Beveridge said, from around 20% in 2007.
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.
Korean Air is not the only South Korean firm with excessive borrowing: the top 30 chaebol have around five times as much debt as equity, and the five conglomerates that went bust this year all had debt-to-equity ratios of more than 400%.
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