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ProfessorGAC

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11. You Forgot Big Businesses

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #7)

Fri Apr 10, 2020, 10:37 AM

Apr 2020

My final advanced degree was an MBA completed in 1996.
At that time debt/equity for a mid size to large firm was 1.15 or less, absent high volume, high capital investment durable goods. Anything under 1.8 was good.
The industrial average(!) now is 1.5, and GM is at 2.7, while Ford is at 4.5.
Operations & growth are heavily dependent on debt.

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