Most investors shy away from bonds because they yield (or return)
less than equities and tend to be more complex in nature.
REITs including distributions returned
less than equities?
As a thumb rule, invest in companies with debt to equity ratio less than 1 as it means that the debts are
less than the equity.
Refinancing through a mortgage will work if your debts are
less than the equity value of your home and you can afford the monthly payments.
I did my own research on the ten lowest P / E stocks each year among all stocks with a market cap of $ 500 million or more, and debt
less than equity.
However, if you are using federal exemptions, there is a chance the trustee could sell the house to pay your debts, since the federal exemption of $ 23,675 is quite a bit
less than your equity.
Borrowers are granted a lump sum of money equal to or
less than the equity in their homes.
The conventional idea used to be that a debt / equity ratio should be less than 1.0; this is, debt should be
less than equity.
Usually equal to or
less than the equity you have in your home
The result of market fluctuation on the NAV is
less than equity schemes.
It costs borrowers far
less than equity and lenders are tempted by higher interest rates that offer them superior yields.
Not exact matches
In 2015,
less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's
equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.
From that sample, we seek out companies that have return on
equity of at least 12 % and a beta above 1, indicating that a company is
less volatile
than the market average.
One seasoned private
equity lawyer savvily points out that PE is a people business and that fund performance depends
less on the brand name of the fund family
than on the specific people managing the fund.
Tech companies with no profits (or even much of a business plan) soared to extreme valuations that were justified, in part, by the belief that future profits would be made faster and that
equities were
less risky
than in the past.
Women in general have
less access
than men to capital (including venture and private
equity investment and government loans), markets, and networks.
Airbnb doesn't need the money, Chesky said — whether for ongoing operations or for M&A (the company just completed another $ 1 billion funding round and has reportedly spent
less than 10 % of the $ 3 billion plus in
equity it has raised), resources aren't a limitation.
Q: How do I compensate my salespeople when I can't afford to pay a big base salary,
equity counts for
less than it used to, and the reps aren't making their numbers?
We are the group with
less startup
equity and are more likely to run out of funds sooner
than our employed counterparts.
Couples prefer to stay in
less -
than - satisfying marriages over losing the
equity they have built up in their homes.
A tightening of bank lending standards and a drying up of the home -
equity - loan market in the post-financial crisis era have made small business credit
less available
than it used to be.
Mid-level engineers generally receive
less than one - half of one percent of
equity in the companies they join, but at 10 percent of companies, they're getting a full percent or more.
Stock market Stronach had little incentive to eliminate its dual - class share structure, which allowed him to control the company despite holding
less than 1 % of its
equity.
So the investment is
less than half of the unencumbered
equity that would be required by a traditional franchise restaurant.
If not, you need to wait for the JOBS Act to kick in and then use
equity crowdfunding, where you will be able to sell stock in your business, because
less than 2 percent of Kickstarter crowdfunding campaigns successfully raise $ 100,000 or more.
While not all bets have paid off — his global macro strategy suffered amid currency volatility in 2014 — Shiff says he ends up losing
less in down markets
than pure
equity managers do.
Another reason is that women tend to be more conservative in running their businesses, so you see generally stronger balance sheets with more personal
equity and
less debt
than in businesses owned by men.
Buffett's skepticism around the strategy stems from his view a diversified portfolio of
equities progressively becomes
less risky
than bonds over extended periods of time.
Less than three weeks after announcing it had secured $ US6.47 billion ($ 6.89 billion) in
equity funding to construct a port and rail network at Oakajee, junior explorer Padbury Mining says the deal is now dead.
Morgan Stanley's chief US
equity strategist, Mike Wilson, however, thinks the situation is far
less dire
than before, and argues the big drop in short - volatility products actually helped flush out risky positions.
Neither of them had given any thought to the
equity question, much
less to whether they'd have to pay this administrator more
than they paid themselves.
Equity you can expect to give up: Usually
less than 20 percent (convertible debt notes are often employed for this type of funding).
«The
equity dollar buys
less than it did five years ago,» says Ross, who now works on twice as many recapitalizations as he did back then.
Sales pitches are broadly similar: farmland is presented as performing equally well or better
than equities and other asset classes, with
less volatility.
LeapFrog's first fund of $ 135 million made
equity investments of between $ 5 million and $ 15 million in eight companies in Africa and Asia offering insurance and other financial products to individuals living on
less than $ 10 per day.
We do not know the increase in the growth of federally regulated workers that make
less than $ 15, but given what we know from the Labour Force Survey, federally regulated workplace study and employment
equity survey data, estimates of 0.25 - 0.75 % annual growth appear reasonable.
Consider the unhappy experience of one East Coast software manufacturer whose chief executive retained a small and
less -
than - prominent investment - banking firm in his efforts to woo private -
equity investors.
Of those investors whose advisors had talked to them about a crash, 62 percent believe their loss would be
less than what their stated exposure to
equities would suggest, the survey found.
«Stocks certainly look more attractive
than bonds, but the case for stocks versus other asset classes is
less clear... «So while returns may compress from the outsized gains we have seen over the last several years, we remain constructive on
equities.
We've already invested the lion's share of our funds» original
equity commitments to acquire about $ 1.8 billion of assets, based on unpaid principal balance, for
less than $ 0.40 on the dollar.
Many investors accept
less than the 3.75 % rate of return to fund start - ups, sometimes in return for
equity.
Berkshire's cost for a common
equity stake of 320 million shares in the new company will be $ 9.5 billion, or «a little
less than $ 30 a share,» Buffett told CNBC on Wednesday.
Mortgage insurance is often required when buying a home with a down payment of under 20 % or when refinancing with a current
equity of
less than 20 %.
BFS Capital financing has come into the mainstream because it's more accessible
than a bank loan,
less expensive
than equity, and
less risky
than bootstrapping.
European
equities, as represented by the S&P Europe 350 Index, are now trading at
less than 12x forward earnings and 1.3 x book value.
They all have debt to
equity ratios of
less than 50 %, a good thing if a recession does occur.
That means if prices go down by only 3 %, the house will be in negative
equity and it would pay the homeowner just to walk away and say, «The house now is worth
less than the mortgage I owe.
«By allowing investors and their financial advisers to efficiently learn about our REITs and invest directly, there is
less cost involved in raising
equity capital
than there would be through more traditional public distribution formats,» said Amy Tait, chairman, CEO and co-founder of Broadstone, in a statement.
My point was and is that the
equity risk premium is bundled up closely with the nature of the security itself (i.e., being a publicly traded, relatively liquid investment asset called an
equity, that has a very specific bundle of rights and risks attached to it), which has very different characteristics
than the many other financial assets available in the economy (many of which have bundles of risk that are perceived as «riskier», and many of which are perceived as «
less risky»).
However, when the real estate market declines 15 % / yr, the
equity investments also decline 10 % / yr, and one realizes they are paying (in my case 5 % / yr) for the privilege of losing money while paying for a home eventually sold for 30 %
less than one paid, I can feel pretty stupid!