Sentences with phrase «balances on corporate balance sheets»

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Outgoing Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney famously chided corporate Canada this summer for sitting on mountains of «dead money,» the idle dollars on balance sheets that could instead feed economic growth.

It's a far cry from the days — say 15 years ago — when less than a dozen banks held a corporate loan on their balance sheet, and companies could renegotiate the terms of their loan with a single creditor, or a small committee.

Constituent companies are chosen based on their score on two sets of measures: a quantitative assessment consisting of their return on equity, balance sheet accruals ratio and financial leverage ratio; and a qualitative score derived from management's responses to a survey about such topics as corporate governance, risk and crisis management, customer relationships and tax strategies.

Because equity investors — that tend to get what they ask for — increasingly are saying enough is enough, and a lot of releveraging activity was front loaded, and with an expected more benign rate hiking cycle there is less urgency to pull the trigger on deals, we continue to think that corporate balance sheets (ex-energy, ex-materials) will improve in 4Q and into 2016.

«Thirty years ago, if you looked at the valuation of firms in, say, the S&P 500, you would find that the hard assets on the balance sheet more or less reflected the corporate value.

«Many nonfinancial firms do have the balance sheet capacity to expand investment, and reductions in corporate tax burdens could have a positive impact on their cash flow,» the IMF writes.

Barclays is giving advice «on value - boosting transactions — such as spinoffs, splitoffs and carveouts — to help deter activists,» and working with companies «to pinpoint the factors driving poor performance, such as the company's balance sheet, operating performance, or corporate structure.»

In New York, Chicago and other major cities (just as in London and other foreign centers) this gentrification is creating major new real estate investment opportunities — a fact not lost on stock speculators poring over corporate balance sheets looking for undervalued potentials that may be realized.

In a traditional divisional structure, each division head would be responsible for their own profit and loss line on the corporate balance sheet.

But what if I is the limiting factor and we have excess S, for instance through accumulation of cash on corporate balance sheets that isn't invested?

While the current price / peak - earnings multiple is already at an elevated level above 18, what I'll call the «P / E equivalent» multiples on other fundamentals are: 21 on the basis of book values, nearly 23 on the basis of enterprise value / EBITDA (which factors in the increasing share of debt on corporate balance sheets), over 25 on the basis of revenues, and 29 on the basis of dividends (largely because dividend payout ratios remain relatively low even on the basis of normalized earnings).

A stock buyback is basically a secondary offering in reverse — instead of selling new shares of stock to the public to put more cash on the corporate balance sheet, a cash - rich company expends some of its own funds on buying shares of stock from the public.

Cash on balance sheets remains three - to - five times higher than other developed market peers, and corporate governance reforms are encouraging delivery of excess capital to shareholders via share buybacks, dividends and acquisitions.

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Finally, higher interest rates can affect corporate balance sheets, which can potentially benefit strategies such as Long / Short Equity and Long / Short Credit that are predicated on distinguishing between financially strong and over-leveraged companies.

On the supply side, historically low rates have attracted plenty of corporate borrowers seeking to re-lever their balance sheets post-crisis.

This comparison points to the deeper imbalances that brought on the US recession in the first place — namely, the equity market correction, balance - sheet stress in the US corporate sector, low profitability, and an investment overhang, particularly in Information Technology (IT) and communications, all of which weighed on the ability of US businesses to invest.

Its Exposure Management module enables clients to track their global cash flow and balance - sheet exposures to determine if the hedges they have put on globally across subsidiaries are in line with their corporate hedging strategy.

At best, MCT is involved with only half a loaf: 100 % weight to flows and 0 % weight to the amount of net wealth existing on corporate balance sheets.

With cash on corporate balances sheets at high levels and dividend - payout ratios at their lowest levels since the start of the 20th century, there's good reason these types of companies make a good investment.

To fully understand it, it's worth your while to put in some reading time to get a basic understanding of how a company's corporate reports work and how to read the numbers on both a balance sheet and income statement.

The better people and corporate culture a company has, the bigger the chance they'll be winners on the balance sheet as well.

Just add enough RBC such that it takes away any yield advantage versus holding it on balance sheet, or versus the excess yield on equivalently rated average corporates.

The fate of pension plans and companies are more intertwined than ever, according to Mercer, as new accounting rules require that changes to the value of equities and the yields on bonds be reflected on corporate balance sheets.

A green future will also build on full - cost accounting in which a company's «hidden» expenses like pollution and resource depletion aren't foisted onto taxpayers but paid for on corporate balance sheets.

Burford's CEO Christopher Bogart forecasts the growth of Litigation Finance in 2018, highlighting he growing acceptance of the practice amongst both law firms and corporates, as well as the increased reliance on portfolio funding as a means of shifting risk off of balance sheets....

International studies of corporate performance agree that business - to - business (trade) debtors are one of the main assets on most corporate balance sheets.

Representation of Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank (CACIB) on the issuance of the Premium Green PLC Balance Sheet Notes pursuant to the PREMIUM Multi Issuer Asset Backed Medium Term Note Programme.

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third, many corporate and financial clients need to rebuild their balance sheets and to fund the repayment of loans due over the next two years before they will feel sufficiently confident to embark on a range of acquisition and financing activity.

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Such a change would represent a major shift for companies that have typically favored the off - balance - sheet treatment of operating leases, and it could have a significant impact on corporate decisions to lease or purchase real estate in the future.

They would rather have cash on their balance sheets rather than a lot of real estate,» said Richard J. Rouse, co-CEO of Lexington Corporate Properties Trust, a New York - based REIT that invests in single - tenant net lease properties.

By lowering the corporate tax rate, the tax reform has also lowered the value of an asset sitting on the balance sheets of Fannie and Freddie.

Vincent: Within our corporate healthcare group, we are cash flow lenders looking to grow and retain long term relationships on our balance sheet.

He noted that corporate balance sheets are leveraged on the backs of low interest rates, asking, «So when rates rise, how does debt get repaid?»

Corporate and institutional clients are especially finding sale - leaseback transactions useful when they seek to cash in on the equity from their real estate assets in order to grow their business and reduce some of the debt from their balance sheets; investors seeking more stable and predictable returns are also finding sale - leasebacks to be an attractive choice.

By lowering the corporate tax rate, it has also lowered the value of an asset sitting on the balance sheets of Fannie and Freddie: A so - called deferred tax asset, which reflects their ability to take past losses as a deduction against future profits.

Corporate America flocked to this financing method in the mid-1990s because it allowed companies to enjoy the tax benefits of ownership without listing depreciation expenses on their balance sheets.