Debt-to-Equity and Return on Equity ratios?
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if q is de debt to equity ratio, then D=qE, where D is debt and E is equity. Since assets is equal to debt + equity, then A (assets)=D+E=qE+E=E(q+1)\nflow for equity holder is\nA xR -D x i , where R is return on assets and i is interest rate.\nThus, Return on Equity=R(q+1)-qi
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Their dti, debt to income ratio.  if it is for real estate, ltv, loan to reail value, which determines the equity in the property and will let you know how much can be borrowed.  Basics, name, ssn, mothers maiden name, lengh of employment, lenght of residence, any other lending they have.
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When you invest it's always best to use the maximum amout of leverage to obtain the maximum return. Investment debt (as long as your tenants are paying for it) is good debt. \n\nExample: You buy a $100,000 home with $50,000 down and the property goes up in value by 10% in one year. Your ROI (return on investment) is 20%\n\nYou buy the same $100,000 home with $10,000 down and the property goes up in value by 10% in one year. Your ROI is 100%
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Go to morningstar and look up the weighted average PE ratios of the funds for stock funds and duration for the bond funds.  As most funds underperform the indices over time, treat them as index funds.\n\nFor stocks, never hold a fund with a PE over 15.  It works out that unless your expected return is very low, fifteen is a good rule of thumb for discounted cash flows to time 0, as an upper bound for price.  You can take the PE, find the estimated growth of the indices and go to moneychimp.com and estimate return.  Keep tinkering with the growth rate until 1.00 in earnings yields a PE of the same value.\n\nFor bond funds, look up the duration and credit quality.  Junk bonds can lose extraordinary amounts in stressful times.  I remember a time in the '90's where one third of junk simply was written off the balance sheets of funds.  In any case, look up the duration.  Figure out the weighting between classes (morningstar should tell you) and go the the Financial Times of London or Barrons or the Wall Street Journal and look up the yield for that approximate duration or average maturity.  That minus the fees will be your yield.\n\nCompare this to your goals.\n\nMy guess is that if you do this, you will be in for a shock and be very upset and disappointed.  You might then look at bankrate.com and buy a moneymarket or CD from GMAC Bank or the State Bank of India (member FDIC).  You will likely do better than in the markets.  Prices are high in most funds relative to what they provide.\n\nMy checking account at GMAC Bank pays me 4.65% and I am globally among the best investors in the world, from a purely statistical perspective.  Most general public investors are in over their heads but they don't know it.  The professionals don't want to tell people because if you withdrawal your money they get lower fees.\n\nThere are not a lot of funds that are reasonably priced compared to their underlying assets, and have a good management history.  I know, I have looked and I am trained to evaluate portfolios.
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The best way is to get to know the company first!. What they do how they do. You need to understand it from A to Z. Then look at financial ratios like liquidity, trend on net income on teh p&L through past 3 years. If debt is increasing, find out what are they doig with loans and how is the  ROA, ROE, current assets to current liabilities should never has a decreasing trend on more than 3 years.
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What do want to know? Look at ratio of debt to equity--the more debt the greater the risk if earnings are poor but if earnings are good the equity owner will do very well. the interest on debt must be paid whereas a dividend doesn't.
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Your pretty much correct.\n\nHere is a link to my 1031 exchange site that I'm creating:\nhttp://www.nnnstore.com soon to be http://www.1031store.com\n\nYou will find good general information about 1031 exchanges, especially on the first page.\n\nHere is a link to my capital gains calculator:\nhttp://www.nnnstore.com/1031_capital_gains_calculator.php soon to be:\nhttp://www.1031store.com/1031_capital_gains_calculator.php\n\nThis will help you figure out your total capital gain due.  NH is a no capital gains state.  I calculate that you will owe $15,300 in capital gains taxes.\n\nThis figure could change if you depreciated the property or add in capital improvements.\n\nTo defer all capital gains taxes, 1031 exchanges are the way to go.  You will need to replace all debt & equity of your sale by purchasing another investment property.\n\nYou may do a partial 1031 exchange, reinvesting some of the proceeds and taking the gain on the rest(known as 'boot').\n\nA good title company should be able to help explain 1031 exchanges further, and also act as your accomodator for the exchange.
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You must figure out your total gain.\n\nAdditionally, if you wish to do a 1031 exchange you must replace debt & equity.\nhttp://www.nnnstore.com/1031_capital_gains_calculator.php
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Need more specific information.  I would sell as quickly as possible and take the equity and put it into something more managable.
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There is something call "equity sharing". \n\nHere's some info:\nhttp://www.andysirkin.com/HTMLArticle.cfm?Article=5&Hit=1\n\nRegards...
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If you have other debt, take a home equity loan, and pay off the other debt.  Payments on non-home loans are not tax deductible ... payments on home loans are tax deductible.  Also, the interest rate on a home equity loans probably would be lower than credit card debt, or a car loan.\n\nDepending upon what your tax bracket is, you may want to try to earn income in the form of dividends (not interest payments) ... dividend payments are taxed at a lower rate than regular interest.\n\nFinally, also dependent on what your tax bracket is, maybe you should invest in muni-bond fund, which pays income tax-free investment revenue.  The interest rates are lower than taxable bonds, but if you are in one of the higher tax brackets, your net after tax will be larger.
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As of Today,,according to Yahoo Finance...\nThe Top 10 mutuals return:\n\n3Month> 23.7% to 36.6%\n1 Year>  60.6% to 75.5%\n3 Year>  45.9% to 50.6%\n5 Year>  37.9% to 47.8%\n\n........................................\nYahoo's Screener returns these results\n\n"All>Down more than 50%>Year to Date"\n1 Fund)  --85.7%\n\n"All>Down more than  10%>1 Year"\n25 Funds--- Range  -10.3% to -88.9%\n\nHowever,,that 88.9 Loss is a sorta exception.\nThe Next Loser on that list is -34%\n#11=  -17%\n#12=  -13%\n\nThere are Only 5 showing ,,Down more than 25%\n\nAnd only 179 showing "Down more than 0% 1yr"\nWhile there's 16,643  "UP more than 0% 1yr"\nWith 13,433 "UP more than 5% 1yr"\n..........9,762 "Up More than 10% 1yr"\n\n\nSo,,of Over 16,500 Funds,,,,\n25 are Down More than 10%\nvs\n9,762 UP more than 10%\n6,061 Up more than 15%\n\nFrom that simple comparrison it seems a safe assumption that a "Dart Thrown" amongst ALL Mutual Funds could be expected to return 10% or better\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>\n\n"Worst Case"....???\nOnly 25 of more than 16,000 are Down more than 10% in current 1 yr period AND 3yr period\n\n51 are Down more than 10%,,Y-T-D\n561 of 16,600+ are Down More than 0% YTD\n\nThat's 30:1 Odds of hitting a Gainer larger than +0%,,,\non nothing but a Blind Grab.\nA LITTLE research can be expected to better those Odds exponentially,,in my opinion.\n\nOk,,we all are familiar with the saying,\n"Past Performance is No Gaurantee of Future Results".\nEZ enough to understand that.\n\nYet on the Other hand,,according to both Market Logic and Common Logic it's a valid Assumption that \n"IF the Fundamentals Underlying a Fund's Performance remain basically IN TACT & In Effect,,,,,\nThe Fund's Performance Model will be approximately replicated."\n\nPut Another way,,,If most all things remain equal about the Fund,\nIt's Reasonable to expect the Fund  to perform in a Similar manner.\n\nIt Might have done +20% last year,,,if things stay Similar,,\nOne could reasonably expect a +10 to 20 % range as a basic assumption.\nA Drop from +20% to +10% is a HUGE Correction Factor to include in any assumption of "all things remain equal"--the basic fundamentals being maintained.\n\nLets apply that to a couple of examples:\nGold and Oil both have about TRIPLED in last 3~4 Years.\nObviously,, Funds weighted in Those Now Reflect  That RISE.\nActually,,they reflect Commodity Pricing + Actual Enterprise Value +++INVESTOR SENTIMENT>>Momentum.\n\nBut can Anyone in their right mind think that Gold or Oil will TRIPLE AGAIN in next 3 yrs or so?\n200$ to 600$~700 Gold,,,,OK,,,but $650 Gold to $1,950?\n$20 Oil to $60's,,Sure,,but From HERE Forward..$60's to $180's??\nWithin next 3~4 years??\nNaaa,,No Way.\n\nSo we CANNOT Logically assume Gold or Oil will "repeat" the Performance of it's current 3yr and 5Yr record.\nIt can CERTAINLY Do Very Well,,,but it's Recent Performance is an Anomaly,,,a Unique Situation.\nAND,,it was (arguably/Probably) coming from a UNDER-valued position----it had a Latent/Dormant UNrealized Value which accounts for a substantial %% of it's Upward Move.\n\n\nNow lets look at DEFENSE SECTOR for a example contrary to Above.\nDefense itself had a Windfall UP-Move.\nWe CANNOT (Or at least HOPE NOT) expect the\n MOTIVES/MKT- Forces to REPEAT.\n\nBut even so,,,the Fundamentals of The COMMERCE of Warfare/Defense  remain Intact,,,and are expected to do so thru next several years.\nThe DEMAND for relative Products/Services is not only Still Growing,,it's EVOLVING.\n"The Big Picture" of DEFENSE is one of GROWTH.\nWhich means Growing Sales/Revenues/Profits,,,it means Innovation,,,it means Mergers & Consolidations..\nBlah,Blah....\n\nSo if we Compare something like Gold &
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http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=%5EGSPC
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This is really not a difficult question.  If this is tough, the rest of the course will only get worse.  \n\nHowever, you can figure it out by this:\n\nWACC = (Percentage Equity * Cost of Equity) + (Percentage debt * Cost of Debt * (1-Tax))\n\nHopefully that helps.
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If you ignore the increased cost due to default concerns, then no.  Most of the time, the cost of the debt is less than the cost of equity because of various reasons, including the tax shield on interest payments for debt.\n\nSo, increasing the weighting of debt would decrease WACC.
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You are short 10 options (either calls or puts), and every portfolio listing I've ever seen indicates shorts with a negative number.  If the entry choices are + or -, then definitely go with the minus.\n\nYHOO just broke Sept. low and is very close to Feb. 2005 low, so things could get real interesting.  I expect some recovery tomorrow but longer term I'm bearish on YHOO, just not bearish enough to go short.
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Heh.  Usually debt and equity.