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balance sheet is a financial statement that shows a snapshot of a company's financial position at a specific point in time. It lists a company's assets (what it owns), liabilities (what it owes), and shareholders' equity (the company's value after subtracting liabilities from assets). It helps give a clear picture of a company's financial health and its ability to pay off debts.
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Using default rates for loans
on balance sheet for those that are sold to third parties?
Spend time trying to find good companies with
strong balance sheets in industries with lousy pricing power, and cheap companies in good industries, where the trends are not fully discounted.
The long - term focused management team has done a great job of maximizing margins and maintaining one of the strongest
balance sheets in the industry.
$ 11 trillion was wiped out of private sector
balance sheets as «paper gains» turned into real - life losses.
If you enjoy reading
balance sheets for hours on end, you just found your perfect investment strategy.
We believe the recent sell - off in the energy sector has presented an opportunity to buy solid companies with strong
balance sheets at a significant discount to their intrinsic value.
Running the printing press like never before has indeed produced a mountain of cash on
bank balance sheets, but they aren't lending it out much to consumers and business.
The healthy state of
corporate balance sheets overall is also apparent in corporate bond spreads, which remain at relatively low levels.
Corporate
balance sheets look surprisingly weak, according to one of the analysts, who said leverage ratios had risen and interest - coverage ratios had fallen.
In particular, consumers — benefiting from
improved balance sheets (in part due to higher home values) and reduced gas prices — showed strength.
Banks initially tried to avoid a fire sale of their loan assets by issuing billions of dollars in new equity to
strengthen balance sheets.
Banks have seen
healthier balance sheets from potential borrowers, and are now more willing to lend than they were during the credit crunch.
In 2008 when the markets took a major hit, these guarantees became major
balance sheet liabilities to carriers as you can well imagine.
Unlike most periods after the Great Recession, the ongoing improvement in
balance sheets did not result in a decline of the savings rate at the end of 2012.
Revised and updated financial reports
including balance sheets, quarterly reports, and cash flow estimates for the six entities involved with [company name].
I tend to use industry selection and other factors,
like balance sheet strength and reliability of cash flows as my main risk reduction tools rather than outright reduction of equities owned.
So far, for a variety of reasons, companies have chosen to fund these special dividends mostly by taking on debt instead of
using balance sheet cash.
The amount of net assets belonging to the owners of a business (or shareholders of a company) based on
balance sheet values.
These metrics represent a very solid
balance sheet showing a reasonable overall debt load and more than sufficient earnings to cover interest payments.
Thus, when you see financial firms with
weak balance sheets taking on significant credit risks, be wary, it is often a sign that the credit cycle is about to turn.
But like many would - be entrepreneurs, I don't know much
about balance sheets, cash flow, marketing budgets, ad sales, or other essentials for running a company.
With a growing labor market and continued household
balance sheet repair, household formations are up in 2012, increasing demand for both renter - and owner - occupied housing.
The start date for
balance sheet reduction is not finalized, but will likely begin later this year in addition to another 0.25 % Federal Funds rate increase.
The commission's discussion also suggested sovereign bond - backed securities to make bank's
balance sheets more diversified and interconnected.
In addition, an increasing number of
balance sheet lenders are being forced to compete to lend aggressively.
Keep in mind, there is an exceptionally high correlation between the pace of central bank
balance sheet expansion and stock prices.
These two stocks are growth stocks that have extremely solid
balance sheets over the last 10 years and have recently gone on sale due to the «cold winter».
These off -
balance sheet arrangements meant that the shareholder's equity line ignores a significant amount of the resources that a company uses in its operations.
Further, how valuable is the cash on corporate
balance sheets if there is an equally large debt balance on the other side of the ledger (there is)?
Corporate cash balances are «at an all - time high,» he notes, and quality companies have solid
balance sheets without too much leverage.
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