Sentences with phrase «less financial leverage»

On a regular repayment schedule, they have less financial leverage than borrowers with better incomes to pay down their debt early and keep up the pace with their interest rates.

The portfolio contains high - quality companies that employ better governance and disclosure, more conservative accounting, less financial leverage, and «best - in - class» management.

Not exact matches

Following massive regulatory changes in the financial sector, the U.S. banking sector is considerably less leveraged and arguably safer than it was pre-crisis.

High Risk — Income (H / INC) Medium to higher risk equities of companies that are structured with a focus on providing a meaningful dividend but may face less predictable earnings (or losses), more leveraged balance sheets, rapidly changing market dynamics, financial and competitive issues, higher price volatility (beta), and potential risk of principal.

Specifically, a recent analysis by Graham Secker, MS & Co.'s European equity strategist, found that recent disappointments in European corporate profits are a function of at least three important factors that may be reversing: idiosyncratic issues related to heavily skewed index exposure to financials and commodity - linked industries; weak operating profit leverage linked to declining emerging market sales; and less aggressive use of buybacks, tax optimization and non-operating cost reductions versus U.S. peers.

It therefore makes sense for financial institutions» bonds to offer less yield than before because their business is considerably less exposed to leverage and risks.

For example, micro-finance and social investment establishments that offer basic financial services and FinTech companies that are leveraging information technology to enhance access to finance to those that currently rely on informal markets would contribute to more business, employment, income generation and, hence, less poverty.

Obama remains weakened by the financial crisis and the increasingly dire picture in Afghanistan and may have less political leverage than he once had.

Following massive regulatory changes in the financial sector, the U.S. banking sector is considerably less leveraged and arguably safer than it was pre-crisis.

With this plan, you have access to the extra funds without paying, your lender has less leverage should you experience financial difficulties, and when you are ready to pay off the whole shebang you can do it with the funds you have invested.

Though we have difficulties at present from the housing overhang, and the unwind of financial leverage, there will be continuing difficulties over the next two decades as assets must be liquidated and taxes raised to support the promises of Medicare, and to a lesser extent, Social Security.

If an insurer begins to slip, initially it would pay the ratings agencies to delay the recognition of that, and work with them to lower leverage; the damage to the ratings agencies and financial guarantee insurers from a downgrade of a financial guarantee insurer to less than AAA would be huge.

For those that haven't read me much, the deadly trio of too much leverage, illiquid assets, and liquid liabilities is what causes most corporate defaults of financial companies, not lesser issues like mark - to - market accounting.

Of course, if a firm has high fixed costs and low variable costs (high operating leverage), its financial position is less stable than that of a company that has low fixed costs and high variable costs.

20 Pro Forma Financial Highlights Sources & Uses Refinance PENN Existing Debt: $ 2.7 billion Pre-spin redemption of Fortress Investment Group Conversion Shares: $ 412 million Pre-spin redemption of other Preferred Equity: $ 253 million (1) Cash portion of the Accumulated E&P Dividend: $ 438 million Transaction Expenses: ~ $ 145 million Total Transaction Debt: $ 3.75 — $ 4.25 billion Key GLPI (REIT) Stats Target Leverage: 5.5 x EBITDA Target Interest Coverage: 3.2 x Target Dividend Payout Ratio: ~ 80 % AFFO less employee option holder dividends Key PNG (OpCo) Stats Target Leverage: 3.0 x EBITDA Implied Adjusted Leverage: 5.6 x EBITDAR Target Rent Coverage: ~ 2.0 x Target Interest Coverage: > 5.0 x Includes $ 22.5 m Preferred Equity redeemed in the first quarter of 2013

Banks now have a practical, proven way to leverage distributed financial technology that delivers faster, more reliable, less costly cross-border payment services for their customers.

«Like - kind exchanges help investors more efficiently allocate capital and resources with less borrowed money into new investments that drive economic activity in communities across the nation,» said NAR President Chris Polychron, executive broker with 1st Choice Realty in Hot Springs, Ark. «Any tax reform plan repealing like - kind exchanges would hurt investors and small businesses, increase financial leverage, weaken growth and the economy, and result in the loss of jobs.»

But when looking to leverage some of their newfound financial strength to buy a home for themselves or their new families, millennials are finding a less optimistic picture.