Sentences with phrase «relatively low debt levels»

Camden Property Trust, based in Houston, boasts relatively low debt levels due to a secondary offering in 1994.

When researching stocks, select the ones with strong future earnings per share (EPS) growth, relatively low price - earnings ratios (P / Es) and relatively low debt levels.

Investors should instead be focusing on good - quality companies with relatively low debt levels which are positioned to continue to benefit from diverse growth opportunities.

Another financial strong point is Medtronic's relatively low debt level.

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Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney has warned that the biggest risk to the financial system is now household debt, even if it's still «relatively low» and unlikely to reach levels that could cripple banks» balance sheets.

A lot of developing country debt had been written down or was in the process of being written down, and relatively speaking debt levels around the world were low and rising.

The fact that China's debt is rising much more quickly than China's debt servicing capacity is consistent with my implicit model — which claims that the optimal amount of capital stock in China is a function of China's relatively low level of social capital, and that Chinese investment has far exceeded its optimal level — but it doesn't prove it.

What is more, despite the increase over the past decade, household debt is still at a relatively low level in China.

In the past, China's household sector has been characterised by relatively low levels of debt.

While the current price / peak - earnings multiple is already at an elevated level above 18, what I'll call the «P / E equivalent» multiples on other fundamentals are: 21 on the basis of book values, nearly 23 on the basis of enterprise value / EBITDA (which factors in the increasing share of debt on corporate balance sheets), over 25 on the basis of revenues, and 29 on the basis of dividends (largely because dividend payout ratios remain relatively low even on the basis of normalized earnings).

Corporate gearing ratios remain conservative by historical standards and debt servicing costs remain low, reflecting the relatively low level of interest rates.

These low rates have encouraged investors in recent months to pile on risk, taking U.S. equities markets to record highs earlier this year despite an economy that's still being slowed by relatively high unemployment, huge debt levels, and tighter government spending.

Around the region, secularly rising incomes, generally healthy banking systems and relatively low public debt levels allow considerable room for confidence of a sustained expansion in demand.

Although most of the Eastern EU Member States have a relatively low level of public debt and their economies are back on the growth path, in Hungary and Poland the EU has become increasingly associated with unpopular immigration policies (which mostly benefit Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants).

This is despite relatively low levels of average debt in these groups.

[2] More recent work that tracks debt outcomes for individual borrowers documents that the main problem is not high levels of debt per student (in fact, defaults are lower among those who borrow more, since this typically indicates higher levels of college attainment), but rather the low earnings of dropout and for - profit students, who have high rates of default even on relatively small debts.

The tax on Social Security benefits kicks in at relatively low income levels, so it's tough to avoid entirely, even if you don't have debts to repay.

Experts say that cardholders» relatively low levels of debt show that many credit card holders are still chipping away at their balances and are focusing more heavily on getting rid of the debt they have.

In order to bolster the economy, which has provided real improvements in life for many low skilled Chinese workers, the Chinese government has used its surplus to buy foreign sovereign debt (i.e. American treasury bills) and kept taxes set at relatively low levels.

Marks, like cohorts at Standard & Poor's and Moody's Investor Services, looks at the debt side of the equation, where he maintains that shopping center REITs have healthy balance sheets and relatively low leverage levels.