Sentence examples for negative leverage from inspiring English sources

But Pfizer had a negative leverage ratio of 0.3:1 where Bank of America had a ratio approaching 10 1.

Therefore, in this case, we can identify either a negative leverage effect when there is none (the series is truly a Gaussian white noise) or a much more negative leverage effect than the actual one (as in the case of the EGARCH model).

Goldfarb: When you see REITs' implied capitalization rates suggesting minimal, or even negative leverage, price/AFFO multiples higher than the S&P 500′s price/earnings ratio (I think AFFO is akin to EPS), and dividend yields near 5% that are being cut or paid in stock, it looks like REITs are fully priced.

A node with negative leverage centrality is influenced by its neighbors, as the neighbors connect and interact with far more nodes.

These perceptions carried negative leverage as they made participants less likely to want to complete PROMs.

For example, someone may consider font size salient, and it may carry high positive leverage, while s/he does not like the topic of the questionnaire so it carries negative leverage.

This is what analysts call negative operating leverage and they don't like it.

Meanwhile, Dell will likely continue to show negative margin leverage, he said.

While there might be some selective opportunities to start picking in these areas– Panera Bread, for example–particularly for investors with longer-term time horizons, the near-term fundamentals are dismal and most investors do not appreciate the potential impact of negative operating leverage (i.e., costs keep rising even as sales decline) on the earnings power of these companies.

By valuing natural capital, and doing so across the full value chain, companies are better able to reduce their negative impacts, leverage their positive impacts, innovate around new processes and materials, and provide greater transparency for all stakeholders.

Indeed, some shareholders -- TIAA-CREF, the huge pension and mutual fund manager, is a notable example -- have become experts at using the specter of negative publicity as leverage.