Sentence examples for cash ratios from inspiring English sources
That would inevitably increase the overall averages for cash ratios.
According to Mr. Trennert, the cash ratios at technology companies have doubled since 2000.
Some veteran investors also suggest another factor that may have encouraged the growth in cash ratios.
The Stulz team's study showed that this trend of rising cash ratios was not limited to very large corporations — indeed, the average increase is more pronounced among firms below the top one-fifth of the sample.
(It doesn't seem likely that modern central banks think this way; if they do, they have a very pessimistic view of the productivity of capital).Under Bretton Woods (or indeed the gold standard), central banks did keep a firm eye on the banking sector, often imposing quite strict rules on reserve requirements, cash ratios and the like.
Citadel Broadcasting and Westwood One, with price/free cash ratios of 15 and 21, are two companies he owns.
Over the same period, Apple's cash ratio grew to more than 60percentt, from just over 38percentt.
The cash ratio at Avon Products, just under 3percentt in 1988, was nearly 17percentt by last December.
One study shows that the average cash ratio doubled from 1998 to 2004 and the median ratio more than tripled, while debt levels fell.
For example, the cash ratio at Paychex — cash and short-term investments as a percent of total assets — has more than doubled, from less than 30percentt in 1988 to more than 70percentt by last summer.
When a bank gets close to a zero cash ratio, the only way it can raise money to make more loans is to package up part of its existing loan book into so-called asset backed securities and sell these to anyone looking for an investment opportunity.
