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Data Update 8 for 2025: Debt, Taxes and Default - An Unholy Trifecta!

Musings on Markets

We can start with dollar value debt, with two broad measures gross debt , representing all interest-bearing debt and lease debt, and net debt, which nets cash and marketable securities from gross debt.

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To Bitcoin or not to Bitcoin? A Corporate Cash Question!

Musings on Markets

Net Debt to Equity = (Debt-Cash)/ Equity Debt to Capital = (Debt-Cash)/ (Debt + Equity) All of these ratios can be computed using accounting book value numbers for debt and equity or with market value numbers for both.

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Data Update 6 for 2023: A Wake up call for the Indebted?

Musings on Markets

While there is nothing inherently that makes one measure superior to the other, it is important to remember that gross debt can never be less than zero, but net debt can, for firms that have cash balances that exceed their debt.

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