Coke has a debt to equity ratio of .99-meaning that debt is about equal to equity in the company.
With a debt to equity ratio of 60%, OC has significant although not unmanageable debt, and pays no dividend.
Colgate too has reduced its debt to equity ratio of 2.5 in 2005 to below 1 by 2009.
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Japanese firms are deeply indebted by the standards of other countries, with an average debt-equity ratio of 4:1.
So your debt to equity ratio, the amount that you owe, what you are worth, is going to change dramatically.
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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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.
The cash flow available for stocks is as least a trillion bucks as individuals and corporate pension funds reverse course and move back to an historical norm on debt-equity ratio composition.
That also brought down the debt-equity ratio to 1:1.2.
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So Mr Shimpi tells his clients to overcome their preoccupation with the debt-equity ratio and to concentrate instead on the underlying issues: how much capital does the company need, and how much should be on and off the balance sheet to minimise its total cost?
Others lenders were willing to extend higher amounts of credit than the company was seeking, but in our view, the debt to equity ratio they were being offered was not healthy for the company, and not something that Hercules would support in either a bull or bear market.
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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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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.
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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As a result, the team lowered its debt-to-equity ratio to 1.8 from 2.
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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.
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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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.
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.
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