Financial Leverage
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| Financial leverage relates a company's long-term debt and preferred stock to the company's common equity. | ||
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Additional Comments:
Sometimes a stock is said to be highly leveraged.
What this simply means is that the company issuing the stock has a large proportion of bonds and preferred stock outstanding relative to the amount of common stock. "High leverage" can work for or against a company depending on the earnings available to the common shareholders. Generally speaking, however, analysts consider highly leveraged companies to be risk-prone. |
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