Low financial leverage as reflected by low interest cost in relation to earnings available to pay interest.
As of Sept. 29, 2017, compared to the respective eligible universe, the S&P China A-Share Quality Portfolio exhibited strong tilts toward quality features (high profit margin,
low financial leverage, and low accrual ratio) and defensive features (low beta and low volatility) as expected.
Quality generally describes financially healthy firms with high return on equity, with stable earnings growth and
low financial leverage.
Not exact matches
Though it initially slowed our growth down, by having
low debt we never put the company at
financial risk and built a strong foundation we can now
leverage.»
The government is looking to
financial institutions to create a
low - cost investment vehicle and
leverage our relationships with business owners to inform, market and provide this new service.
Second,
financial logic embodied in the celebrated Modigliani Miller theorem and suggested by common sense holds that substantial reductions in
leverage, if achieved, should be associated with reduced volatility, reduced sensitivity to shocks and
lower risk premiums.
Prices were so
low that they were forcing bankruptcies, especially throughout our highly
leveraged financial system.
«It
leverages state control of the
financial system to channel
low - cost capital to domestic industries — and to resource - rich foreign nations whose oil and minerals China needs to maintain rapid growth.»
Leveraging our deep technical expertise and working together with our strategic partners in the industry, Centrus offers solutions across the nuclear fuel cycle to help our utility customers
lower their
financial and implementation risks.
Now, my stylized history of AIG takes it through the glory days of the 1980s, where return on assets [ROAs] was high, and
financial leverage low.
In the spirit of the holiday, you might want to
leverage attractive credit card offers such as the Slate from Chase, which offers zero percent on balance transfers for 15 months with no balance transfer or annual fees, in order to free yourself from your
financial burden at the
lowest possible cost.
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.
This led me to Colony
Financial: Run by Tom Barrack & Colony Capital, with
low leverage, a cheap price, a great yield and a portfolio that's still in the build - phase.
There are a lot of theoretical ideas still being tossed around, like 100 % reserving,
lowering bank
leverage, strict asset - liability matching, disallowing banks from lending to
financial companies, etc..
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.
As a measure of
financial leverage, companies with a debt - to - capital ratio of 50 % or
lower made the First Cut [capital consists of debt plus equity].
The global asset bubble
financial economy has made many
leveraged bets on expensive assets under the assumption the global central banks will always keep rates
low and if we have a correction bail investors out.
Low leverage is a positive factor for returns in both debt and equity, and a decent part of that is the high costs of
financial stress for highly levered firms.
Rather, it is a realization that when one marks many positions to their market clearing levels (at a
lower degree of
leverage for the
financial system as a whole), that many
financial institutions are insolvent.
Non-direct recognition loans allow you to maintain
financial leverage AND create a
financial arbitrage with your cash because the loan rates for policies are historically
low variable rates (or fixed in some cases).
Similar to cloud computing, which has enabled millions of startups around the world to
leverage billion - dollar infrastructure for a fraction of the cost, the infrastructure BitFury is deploying allows entrepreneurs to tap into world - class banking infrastructure for a fraction of the cost — unlocking the creativity of entrepreneurs to build
financial service applications that can serve the specific needs of the unbanked at a much
lower cost than traditional banks.
The service, and platforms like it,
leverage millennial ideals to create
low - cost alternatives that don't sacrifice the experiential aspect of the venture because of
financial concerns.
With the resulting boost in revenue, the new owner was able to refinance the property at a
lower interest rate and 37 percent greater
leverage, according to Access Point
Financial.
Through
leveraging third party capital an organization can pay down its property debt with sales proceeds — creating capital liquidity to achieve materially
lower interest rates, and / or more generous
financial covenants.