To find low-priced companies, she checks for a variety of factors including low ratios of price to earnings and price to free cash flow.
Boards disregard bonuses and commissions when weighing financial status, and they want to see low ratios of debt to income.
To minimize these and other risks, the managers use traditional value measures, seeking companies with low ratios of price to earnings, price to book value and price to cash flow.
To pick the 35 or so stocks in the fund, they seek market leaders with strong balance sheets and depressed share prices, then look for low ratios of short- and long-term debt to total capital, which is debt plus shareholder equity.
Thus, effective protection in one country may be much higher than that in another even though its nominal tariffs are lower, if it tends to import commodities of a high level of fabrication with correspondingly low ratios of value added to product price.
All the main Asian emerging economies apart from India have relatively low ratios of public debt to GDP.Though the true size of the fiscal stimulus in some countries, notably China, is probably less than the headline-grabbing figures suggest, they are still impressive.
Value investors look for low ratios of price to sales, earnings or cash flow.
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Beams with the extreme low ratios of beam length to beam cross-section contour dimensions are analyzed.
REITs generally operate at low ratios of debt-to-equity, but when REIT shares collapsed with the market in 2008, those ratios suddenly shot higher.
These stocks also have relatively low ratios of price-to-tangible book, or book value measured using only physical assets (buildings, machines and so on).
