Questions tagged [ratio]
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When is it better to rent and when is better buy in a certain property market?
I've been told the average rent for a house should be the house price, minus 3 zero's and that should be how much it should be a week, which I think works out to be about 5% of the house price per year.
Is that an accurate way to measure whether it…
Joe.E
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What's a normal personal debt / equity ratio for a highly educated person?
I'm trying to figure out what a bad / normal / good personal debt / equity ratio is. Most sites deal with debt / income ratio, which is a cashflow metric, and I want to focus on assets / obligations. The closest I've come is understanding that 0.8…
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What is the PEG ratio? How is the PEG ratio calculated? How is the PEG ratio useful for stock investing?
What is the PEG ratio? How is the PEG ratio calculated? How is the PEG ratio useful for stock investing? Are higher or lower PEG values better for a stock - and why?
user178
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Importance of dividend yield when evaluating a stock?
Why is the dividend yield (Dividend divided by market price) of a stock a valuable parameter to consider when evaluating a stock? By looking at it, what can one infer about the stock?
edit: Thanks for the answers. But I wish to know why the…
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Joint ownership on home (50/50), when I apply for a loan, do they look at total mortgage payment as debt or half?
I am in joint ownership of a home (50/50). When I apply for a car loan and they are looking at my credit report, do they look at the total mortgage payment as my debt or only half? Does the credit report show I only have 50% ownership in the home?
Rachel
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How is it possible that a stock has a P/E of 0.01?
I was looking at this stock: Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK-B) (The Class B shares).
How come it has such a low P/E ratio?
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Where can I find historical ratios of international stock indexes?
What is the best source for historical ratios (such as p/e, p/s, price/book, dividend yield) of various international stock indexes (e.g. FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Asia or MSCI Singapore)?
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Stock trading models that use fundamental analysis, e.g. PEG ratios?
I'm a finance undergrad writing a dissertation on fundamental analysis vs technical analysis applied to trading.
I'm finding it easy to build technical indicators such as moving averages, while it seems hard to identify a model for fundamental…
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Profit margin and gross profit percentage: missing info in income statement?
I would like to calculate the profit margin and gross profit percentage for BHP in 2017.
To do that, I need to figure out:
1) Gross profit
Which one is it? The revenue is 38,285, and I am supposed to take out the "cost of sold products". But there…
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Calculating Profit Ratio (Gross Margin)
When looking at a company's income statement to calculate the Profit Ratio (Gross Margin)
PM = Net Profit / Sales
Do you include "other" revenue in the equation?
Example: XYZ Ltd Income Statement for 2012
Revenues from Sales of Goods = $100
Other…
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How to Interpret the Widely Fluctuating Gold-Silver Ratio
Historically speaking (prior to WWI), the gold-silver ratio (price of an ounce of gold to an ounce of silver) often fluctuated between 10 and 15. I have read that in ancient Egypt, the ratio was once close to 1.
By the end of WWI, the ratio was…
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Why would rising interest rates favor the company with more long-term debt?
I was reading about the debt to equity ratio on Investopedia and in third paragraph under the "Modifications to the Debt-to-Equity (D/E) Ratio" title, it says that:
"If interest rates fall, long-term debt will need to be refinanced,
which can…
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Is it right way to calculate ROE by taking ratio of Net Profit and Total Equity?
Return on Equity is a ratio of Net Profit for some fiscal year let's say 2018 and Total equity at last date of the fiscal year.
But Total Equity is calculated by adding some amount from Net profit(after paying dividends). Isn't it wrong to calculate…
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How is Debt to Equity ratio calculated in moneycontrol and screener.in?
I am trying to understand how Debt to Equity is calculated in websites such as moneycontrol.com and screener.in
For e.g, if we look at Debt/Equity for STRTECH for Mar 2018, it's shown as 1 in both the websites.
Following is the balance sheet details…
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Good Percentage Return on Equity?
Considering a public retail company existing for more than 47 years, would you suggest 23.12% to be a good percentage return on equity? I know that it is currently better than what banks can offer, but why would you personally suggest it?
Here's the…
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