Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, economics, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) and has ...

Chase Carmichael is an equity research analyst with Raymond James Financial Inc. He has 5+ years of experience in finance and investments. Equity capitalization is a measure of how much equity and/or ...

The capital-to-asset ratio calculates a company's assets and capital to determine whether there is enough capital to cover the assets, expressed as a percentage. Useful to regulators, business ...

A company’s capital structure refers to how it finances its operations and growth with different sources of funds, such as bond issues, long-term notes payable, common stock, preferred stock, or ...

Capital structure theories seek to explain why businesses choose different mixes of debt and equity to finance their operations. Banking firms represent a special case because of certain unique ...

The EBIT-EPS approach to capital structure is a tool businesses use to determine the best ratio of debt and equity that should be used to finance the business' assets and operations. At its core, the ...

Businesses can rely on many measures to determine how financially healthy they are. Calculating their fixed-asset-to-equity-capital ratio is one way. This ratio determines whether a company's fixed ...

After working in consulting, venture capital and private banking, Matthias focuses on e-commerce-M&A with his ESER Capital VV GmbH. Mergers and acquisitions have become a common strategy for ...