Talk:Leverage (finance)/Archives/2012

Moved
Moved from Leverage (business).--Jerryseinfeld 10:33, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Removed slippage
This seemed to be more of a measurement problem than anything to do with the basics of leverage. It probably belongs in a discussion about continuous and discrete compounding. If it were to be explained more clearly ... Smallbones 05:20, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

I believe that the financial theories encouraging the borrowing of funds instead of using the entities own fund for financing its projects and the working capital is becoming to be invalid. Recently the world economy has suffered from its financial theories which one of them is financila liveraging. Some companies have successfuly managed to finance its operations using its own funds (retained earnings) and adding value to its partners equity without getting the financial institutions sharing their growth with very minimum risk. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Turki MSL (talk • contribs) 13:21, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

= Confusion == The section "financial leverage" is confusing because  ROE is nothing if debt is the only asset yet there is still a net return as long as the rate on the assets is greater than the interest on the debt.

Means what?
I've taken out the statement "The term leveraged finance was originally coined by David N. Deutsch and its term for a firm's capital composition." Mr. D is a living person and "leveraged finance" seems to be a very old term - maybe he put a different spin on it. In any case it would need explanation

More spice to the leverage section
I'm pl are small in relation to its debt burden.
 * The debt/equity ratio gives you the math for predicting the resulting returns from leverage. Does your proposed use of EBITDA do that?Retail Investor 19:06, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

The point is, I would like to create a bridge from the debt/equity-view to a today now commonly used view of Debt/EBITDA without smacking what was written before. In a sense, there is justification, because if someone from the business talks "leverage" then it's the debt burden in relation to EBITDA or cash flow. Debt/Equity is only secondary to repayment, which is what a bank utlimately is looking for.
 * Have you looked at the EBITDA page? Its use by debt holders is only addressed at the very bottom.  I think that this is the ONLY proper use of EBITDA (because I come from the accrual accounting POV).  If you do the revision suggested, why not try to correct the into there as well and provide a link?Retail Investor 19:06, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

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I'm plical point "leverage" clearly is associated with debt/equity calculations, why is it used in banks in a more dynamic sense, namely related to repayment capacity of a borrower? A finance vehicle might have a conservative debt/equity ratio but still be leveraged because the cash flows are small in relation to its debt burden.
 * The debt/equity ratio gives you the math for predicting the resulting returns from leverage. Does your proposed use of EBITDA do that?Retail Investor 19:06, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

The point is, I would like to create a bridge from the debt/equity-view to a today now commonly used view of Debt/EBITDA without smacking what was written before. In a sense, there is justification, because if someone from the business talks "leverage" then it's the debt burden in relation to EBITDA or cash flow. Debt/Equity is only secondary to repayment, which is what a bank utlimately is looking for.
 * Have you looked at the EBITDA page? Its use by debt holders is only addressed at the very bottom.  I think that this is the ONLY proper use of EBITDA (because I come from the accrual accounting POV).  If you do the revision suggested, why not try to correct the into there as well and provide a link?Retail Investor 19:06, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

gg —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.234.152.215 (talk) 02:44, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Text moved from Leverage
Leverage is about mechanical leverage. Below is a stray sentence I cut from that article that may belong here. --Una Smith (talk) 05:03, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Leverage can also refer, in an economic sense, to the use of debt to acquire assets in a market economy.

This article is sketch
Okay, any article that doesn't even mention the title term in its leader needs work. And beyond that, it could use a rewrite in layman's terms, with less reliance on hyperlinks to "explain" concepts. If anyone has time to fix it that would be amazing. I'm adding a straightforwards definition taken from the previous section of this talkpage to the leader now.--Heyitspeter (talk) 17:21, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

In macroeconomics, a key measure of leverage is the debt to GDP ratio.
How so?

This got nothing to do with leverage IMO. Gatorinvancouver (talk) 21:55, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Use of leverage as a verb
I've removed the blatantly POV statements about "leverage" as a verb being slang and a "misuse" of the English language. If the process of language change is giving this noun a verb form (and a quick Google search confirms that the form is widely used), then it will probably become an uncontroversial verb in due course. Declaring that it can't be conjugated as a verb is pointless, when it clearly can be (and is being) so treated on a daily basis. One individual's distaste for the process and the outcome is not appropriate content for Wikipedia. Ka renjc 06:44, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

I generally agree with Karenjc, although I would phrase it more gently. This section is a fine debating point for people who enjoy that sort of thing, but not relevant one way or the other for a finance article. If the objection were to precision of technical usage, it would be different. I don't think it greatly harms the article, but I vote to remove it. However, since LPeacock70 feels strongly enough to keep putting it back in, and I've already imposed more than my fair share of views on this article, I won't do anything myself.AaCBrown (talk) 16:20, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

My vote is in favour of keeping the linguistic remark at the end just as it is, because for some readers it is "nice to know". On the other hand I should like to read a reply of LPeacock70 here on this talk page. Otto (talk) 10:09, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

The argument about levering/leveraging is inappropriate and horribly sourced (the wiktionary cites leverage as both a noun and a verb and you can see the argument reproduced on that talk page, the other source is a blog). The correct usage is leveraging because that is what it is called, it is not the role of encyclopedias to make moral judgements on normal linguistic processes. "Levering" is not only pretentious, it is just wrong: The correct usage is "leveraging".DubhGlass (talk) 01:27, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

I'm considering doing some major revisions
The article seems jumbled, mixing different concepts in random order. I think it could use a top-to-bottom rewrite, defining terms clearly and then using them consistently. It needs more references and less editorializng. The biggest conceptual defect is failing to distinguish between levering (mulitplying gains and losses by some amount) and borrowing money (borrowing money to buy more of an asset is one way to get leverage, but not the only way, and not all borrowing results in leverage). I think the Finance 101 version of leverage, as found in any introductory textbook, is a better model than this article.AaCBrown (talk) 15:22, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, no one objected, so I did it. Let me know what you think.AaCBrown (talk) 18:08, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
 * In response to a comment, I added a section on leverage in the financial crisis. I'm not sure it really belongs here, but it does help distinguish different types of leverage.AaCBrown (talk) 17:37, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Your rewrite improved the article a lot. Thanks. Otto (talk) 10:10, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you.AaCBrown (talk) 17:00, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Corrected a bad edit
Revision as of 15:43, September 8, 2010 64.76.147.2 trashed the entry by changing four numbers that destroyed the sense of the investment leverage definition section. They made no sense, they could not have been misunderstandings. I'm just mad it took me three months to notice because there were a lot of other (honest) edits around the same time, and these were small. Just another reminder that you have to be vigilent about Wikipedia entries, even when they're not controversial. Not all vandals make big, obvious changes.AaCBrown (talk) 14:56, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

not a verb?
The article states that 'leverage' is not a verb, yet the word is used as a verb in the third line of the text ("A public corporation may leverage its equity") —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.109.212.35 (talk) 14:19, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

What is EBIT?
Earnings before taxes and interest? Would it pain someone to at least write that before using EBIT in formulas? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:47EB:F9F9:D0B5:99DB:AA28:9B4F (talk) 16:44, 28 August 2012 (UTC)