Talk:Debt-to-equity ratio

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Should it be market value?[edit]

"The debt to equity ratio (D/E) is a financial ratio, which is equal to an entity's total liabilities divided by shareholders' equity."

Is this correct? See: Cost_of_capital under "Cost of capital": "Notice that the "equity" in the debt to equity ratio is the market value of all equity, not the shareholders' equity on the balance sheet." --Vunzmstr 08:12, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Investors will use the debt/equity ratio primarily to determine what amount of risk there may be in either buying equity in the company through stock, or purchasing bonds issued by the company.

If a debt/equity ratio reveals a higher amount of debt compared to equity, investors may consider the company a greater risk.

It is the capacity for debt repayment and it indicates proportion of firm's total capital contributed by trade creditors and lenders. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.162.156.10 (talk) 17:05, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, this is not an answer to my question though. --Vunzmstr (talk) 16:34, 8 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

list D/E for all kinds industries[edit]

Hi, can anyone list all the D/E for all the industires? So, we don't have to look for it for long time. Jackzhp 05:14, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please review![edit]

Someone needs to review this article. The numbers used in the example do not match the Yahoo! Finance page reference. --68.62.215.105 (talk) 13:52, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Basel III[edit]

According to our professor in Basel III Leverage Ratio will mean Equity/Firm Value. --160.85.2.50 (talk) 14:03, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Checking Debt / equity values in General Electric example[edit]

The example using General Electric lists 340 as the total debt and 79 as the stockholder equity, resulting in a ratio of 340/79, or 4.30. Can someone please indicate where these numbers are located, because I could not find them in any of the three years which appear on Yahoo via the provided link (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=GE&annual) Tomada36 (talk) 20:22, 29 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]