Before you jump into any investment, it's important to determine if a company can maintain its liquidity and remain solvent over time. Liquidity and solvency ratios work together, but they shouldn't ...

Solvency ratios assess a company's debt repayment capability by comparing debt to assets and equity. Different solvency ratios, such as debt-to-assets and debt-to-equity, provide insights across time ...

If you’re a business owner looking for a loan, your lender will be looking for your solvency ratio. Of course, if you have a startup and are new to running a business, you may not know what a solvency ...

The measures of a company's success go beyond the hard cash it generates as reflected in corporate dividends. Business success also is gauged by the likelihood that the level of the dividends will ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Solvency is the financial staying power of a business. Business owners tend to think their No. 1 priority is to make a profit. That end, however, can lead to using some particularly short term-minded ...

Insurance companies achieved their largest-ever results last year, but the solvency ratio, which is a measure of financial soundness, decreased. This is due to the application of guidelines that ...

Business owners tend to think their No. 1 priority is to make a profit. That end, however, can lead to using some particularly short term-minded means, such as using large amounts of debt to grow ...