Talk:Debt-to-equity ratio

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Should it be market value?
"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)


 * 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)


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

list D/E for all kinds industries
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)

Please review!
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)

Basel III
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)

Checking Debt / equity values in General Electric example
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)