Archive for January, 2010
Investing – Financial Ratio
January 7th, 2010 | 
Author: To determine the viability of a company can be a lengthy and complex process. A quick way to narrow down the selection process would be to evaluate the financial strength of the company and the effectiveness of its management team.Financial ratio consisting of current ratio, debt-equity ratio, price-earning ratio (PER) and return on equity (ROE) is one quick way to check the status of a company.
Current Ratio
Current Ratio is an indicator of the company’s debt-paying ability over the short term (12 months or less). It’s determined by dividing the current assets by the current liabilities. If the outcome is between 1 and 2.5, the company’s financial situation can be considered as healthy. Even tough, the higher the ratio, the more liquid the company, however, anything over 2.5 would indicate that the company may be keeping too much cash and may not be investing enough to provide future growth.It’s probably also useful at this point to calculate the interest coverage ratio, which will indicate the company’s ability to service its debt. Interest coverage ratio is income before interest and tax divided by the interest expense. The greater coverage, the better it is.
Debt-To-Equity Ratio
Debt-To-Equity Ratio is an indicator of a company’s long term financial leverage. It compares the assets provided by the creditors with the assets provided by the shareholders of the company and is determined by dividing the long term debt by the shareholder’s equity.The track record of the management team can be determined by using the following ratios:
Price-Earnings-Ratio (PER)
The Price-Earnings-Ratio is the relationship between the market price of the company’s shares and the earnings per share (EPS). This ratio tells you what you would be paying for each dollar of earnings. To work out the PER; divide the share price by the EPS. Generally, a high PER would means high projected earnings in the future. However the PER actually doesn’t tell us a whole lot by itself. It’s useful to compare the PER of companies in the same industry, or to the market in general, or against the company’s own historical PER.As earnings tend to fluctuate from year to year, consider using the average earnings over the last six to ten years rather than for a particular year. It’s more valuable to look at the PER over time in order to determine the trend.
Return On Equity (ROE)
The Return On Equity encompasses the three main areas where investors can assess the company’s profitability, asset management and financial leverage. ROE represents the management’s ability to balance these three pillars of corporate management and investors will get a feel of whether they’ll receive a reasonable return on equity and assess the management’s ability to perform.
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Step Forward for Corporation
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Personal Debt Consolidation Loan
It is not hard to get into debt, but sometimes it can be hard to get out of. With the rising rate of unemployment, it is more important today to get your finances under control just in case the impact of the economic climate hits closer to home. One method of doing this is with a personal debt consolidation loan.
Though the thought of taking out yet another loan may leave a bitter taste in your mouth, you might want to reconsider on this one. By combining all your debt into one package it can provide a means of making those monthly payments a lot more bearable. Not only are your concerns about multiple payments each month alleviated, but you also do not need to worry about several different companies calling in an effort to collect on the debt. Imagine that, no more embarrassing phone calls to interrupt your work days or even worse that lunch with the boss.
What exactly is a personal debt consolidation loan? It is a means of combining all or part of your financial obligations into one larger loan. The benefit is that the one larger payment would generally be smaller than the total of the combination of payments that you will be eliminating. A draw back that you should consider is that it is likely that the overall payoff of the consolidated loan would be larger than if you continued to pay each individual payment until the end of those loans.
By weighing the benefits against the disadvantages it will help you to decide whether a personal debt consolidation loan is right for you or not. Some companies may also offer debt counseling as a method of helping you to break the habit of over spending. You might want to take advantage of such a service to prevent the vicious cycle that often occurs with accumulated debt.
Basic Financial Investing
Despite what several books that are on the market have to say about the subject, successful investing is not difficult. But it takes experience, skill, patience and both a long term plan and a short term plan. Take a look at the helpful hints below before you invest.
• If you are investing for the first time, get a pen and paper and make a list of your future financial goals. Where do you want to be financially, next year? How about five years from now? You have to have outlines that are designed to work over different periods of time and understand what you goals are. Once your list is created, you can alter it, as time passes, to make it more effective in reaching your goals.
• What resources do you have? How much can you afford to tie up in investments and still have enough to live comfortably on for the period of your investment? Figure you monthly expenses, and subtract that number from your monthly income. If the sum of your income is at least 30% more than your income you should be able to invest comfortably.
• Once you have your number, this is the amount that should be in your savings account. This is your investment money. Look at your short term goals to see if what you will have in savings is enough to reach those goals. If not you will need to cut back on expenses, add to your savings until you reach your investment goals.
• Are you in a stable job? Is there any chance that you will have to take a pay cut or even get released? How is your car running? Do you have any unforeseen expenses, like medical or education? Your investment total is linked to your income and expenses. A drastic cut in income or unexpected major expenses can greatly affect your success as an investor.
• Now you can invest your money. Remember, before you invest that you must have enough emergency savings, and retirement savings to cover you.
Planning your secure financial future is essentially a numbers game. Income verse’s expenses. The worst mistake people make is in not planning for emergencies. Make certain before you invest that you are not in any sort of debt, have plenty in savings to cover emergencies and understand that investments are fluid; your capitol can take a nose dive at any time.