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Financial Ratio |
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Financial ratio The result of dividing one financial statement item by another. Ratios help analysts interpret financial statements by focusing on specific relationships.
Financial Ratio The division of one piece of financial information by another. Financial ratios are very common in fundamental analysis, which investigates the financial health of companies. An example of a financial ratio is the price-earnings ratio, which divides a publicly-traded company's share price by its earnings per share. This helps analysts determine whether a company's share price properly reflects its performance. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In the life sector, new business margins are improving (by three percentage points to 19. Cash flow was affected by smaller business margins, by an increase in the need for working capital (BRL444 million) due to increased exports, by the acquisition of shares in Politeno (BRL238 million); by the greater acquisition of naphtha in the local market; and by the disbursement of dividends (BRL363 million). New business margins stabilised at approximately 22% (from 24% a year before) but are likely to decline further in 2006 as the company tries to regain market share in the corporate business sector. |
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