"Less leverage" means having less power, influence, or control over a situation or outcome.
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In aggregate, our holdings are growing faster and generating higher returns on capital, and they are doing so with
much less leverage.
A lower debt - to - equity number means that a company is
using less leverage and has a stronger equity position.
Moreover, dumping a big group of REITs into a single package doesn't allow you to differentiate between those with high leverage and those with
somewhat less leverage.
All REITs are leveraged to some degree, but some REITs have a
lot less leverage than others.
He said the push would continue in budget talks, but acknowledged he has
less leverage now that the money is out the door.
You are also more likely to have a stronger influence within the organization, but the organization itself will probably have
less leverage on national or international policy.
Also, because you have
less leverage during the lying leg curl, it is more likely that you will cheat or compensate by moving the lower back during the lying leg curl.
If you're the type of credit card customer who pays their balance in full each month then you will have
less leverage when requesting lower interest rate.
I'd also like to see a
little less leverage — I'd prefer a 50 % Debt: Equity ratio, but 100 % + Debt: Equity ratios are far more likely.
But that doesn't mean organizations have a handle on managing this diversity,
much less leveraging it for competitive advantage.
It doesn't really impact the enterprise value much, with less debt there is
somewhat less leverage to the price of gold but also less interest charges.
Mr. Swetman said that most corporations tried to hold up their end, since noncompliance equals
less leverage in future negotiations.
These, along with most of the policy proposals Governor Andrew Cuomo included in his initial spending plan, fell off the negotiation table into post-budget purgatory, when the governor has
considerably less leverage over the Legislature.
Or you can practice Gomukhasana on your back instead of in a seated position, which will apply
less leverage against your piriformis.
Latham's 550 strong partnership will be unaffected by the cuts, says Dell, explaining that «current and future client demand would likely
require less leverage.»
Most clients — one - time or first - time customers, often in the dark about (and a little intimidated by) dealing with a lawyer — have little knowledge and even
less leverage with which to establish a better relationship with their lawyers.
You don't have to be a genius to understand that «less competition» means these women aren't getting competing job offers, and that therefore they've got
way less leverage to negotiate any lowball offer Thornley throws their way.
Finally, as in most recessions, entrepreneurs have
less leverage because there are more early stage startups than in previous years.
As a result, America may find its words carry less gravitas and its
diplomacy less leverage than in previous years.
If Robert Downey Jr. was a calculated risk on a wayward star, Norton was
slightly less leveraged: a celebrated actor five years removed from his last hit (The Italian Job) and perhaps questing for a big project.
Hold the multiple constant (though one might argue one ought increase the multiple for
less leverage risk and you get a sizable transfer of value into the market cap portion of EV.
[For example, Fortress funds appear to rely on / require
far less leverage than (say) KKR & Co (KKR: US) or Blackstone Group (BX: US) to deliver attractive returns, particularly on a risk - adjusted basis.
Remember, as you are a finance buyer, you have a
bit less leverage with sellers than cash buyers do, so you'll want your offers to be relatively strong in other areas (if you are asking for concessions you are likely not to get an accepted offer on an income producer).
For Cuomo, the budget has become the easiest way to grease the skids for policy proposals that he would otherwise have
less leverage in negotiating during the remainder of the non-budget session, which runs through June.
«Once the cooperating defendant is sentenced, the prosecutor has
much less leverage to encourage cooperation,» Sandick said.
It doesn't really impact the enterprise value much, with less debt there is
somewhat less leverage to the price of gold but also less interest charges.
It has little foreign contact, which means both
less leverage against it (has no foreign trade to lose if an embargo is placed) and less knowledge of its internal politics (what things are they interested in and which things they see as threatening).
Law firms are nothing — literally, nothing — without the professionals who populate their halls, and they have less and
less leverage over those professionals all the time.
«Both the ratings agencies and investors will
require less leverage and look to cash flow in place to support the securities,» Reid says.
Generally, as a firm's debt - to - equity ratio increases, it becomes riskier A lower debt - to - equity number means that a company is
using less leverage and has a stronger equity position.
Observers also fear that the greater the economic ties with China,
the less leverage Canada will have when it comes to pushing the country on, say, human rights reforms.
But customers probably have
less leverage than the unions.
But Duterte's outreach to China is fraught with risks — even in a situation in which he gets what he wants, he may find himself returning to a Philippines with reduced standing in the region, weakened relations with a longstanding ally, and
less leverage in its dealings with China.
«They are
less leveraged and not many of them have foreign currency liabilities and those that do have U.S. dollar borrowings, for example, that's because they have U.S. dollar assets or revenue streams in U.S. dollars.
And, unlike with a prenup, the business owner has
less leverage, since you chose to get married without one.