Sentences with phrase «less debt relative»

Across a variety of disciplines, professionals who graduate from higher - ranked schools begin their careers with less debt relative to their income.

A low debt to equity ratio means lower risk to investors, since it means there is less debt relative to the available equity.

It has less debt relative to annual profits.

Not exact matches

«When house prices declined, ushering in the global financial crisis, many households saw their wealth shrink relative to their debt,» its authors observed, «and with less income and more unemployment, found it harder to meet mortgage payments.»

That would make REITs less attractive to investors relative to bonds, while raising the cost of their debts — cutting into profits.

In contrast, EM nations as a whole are carrying less debt as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) than in years past, and thus the EMD index may have garnered relative attraction among investors searching for yield.

The flip side of saving less is borrowing more, as evidenced by the leap in all consumer debt and debt service, both in relation to disposable (after - tax) income and relative to assets.

But relative to public four - year institutions, the for - profits were less able to get equivalent students through BA programs, and they left students in far greater debt.

First, it's none of their business, but more importantly, if you mention you are getting a settlement, tax return, or borrowing money from relatives, they may be unwilling to accept a lesser amount and press you for the entire debt.

As fixed claims grow relative to equity claims, the economy becomes less flexible, because many are counting on the debts for which they are creditors to be paid back at par.

Others point out that because interest rates are so low, the debt service payment on the national debt (about $ 250 billion) relative to the size of the economy is less than it was throughout most of the past three decades — 1.6 percent of American output vs. 3 percent or more during the four administrations prior to Obama.

This screen looks for unpopular dividend - paying companies with low price - earnings and price - to - book ratios that are exhibiting positive earnings and have a reasonable amount of long - term debt relative to net working capital (current assets less current liabilities).

Unemployment rates remain lower and earnings remain higher for college graduates relative to their less - educated peers, even if the rise in overall debt threatens to consume more and more of their income and savings over time.

In today's market it almost seems like the lawyer graduating from one of the more inexpensive schools (it's all relative) and offering competent legal services for less than the large law firms may be able to pay off their debts, and create a profitable practice, before their peers who beeline directly to Big Law for their temporary stint there.

Debt overhang and ongoing deleveraging on the part of firms and households are the main culprits as well as higher structural unemployment and the stultifying double entendre of more or less permanently high taxes and excessive regulation relative to our economic competitors.