African Minerals (FRA:OUV) Debt-to-Equity : 0.93 (As of Jun. 2014)

African Minerals Debt-to-Equity Chart

African Minerals Annual Data
	Trend	Dec04	Dec05	Dec06	Dec07	Dec08	Dec09	Dec10	Dec11	Dec12	Dec13
Debt-to-Equity		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					-	-	0.57	0.64	0.99

African Minerals Semi-Annual Data
	Jun10	Dec10	Jun11	Dec11	Jun12	Dec12	Jun13	Dec13	Jun14
Debt-to-Equity	Get a 7-Day Free Trial				N/A	0.64	0.41	0.99	0.93

Competitive Comparison of African Minerals's Debt-to-Equity

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, African Minerals's Debt-to-Equity, along with its competitors' market caps and Debt-to-Equity data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

African Minerals's Debt-to-Equity Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, African Minerals's Debt-to-Equity distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where African Minerals's Debt-to-Equity falls into.

African Minerals Debt-to-Equity Calculation

Debt to Equity measures the financial leverage a company has.

African Minerals's Debt to Equity Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2013 is calculated as

African Minerals's Debt to Equity Ratio for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2014 is calculated as

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

African Minerals  (FRA:OUV) Debt-to-Equity Explanation

In the calculation of Debt to Equity, we use the total of Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation divided by Total Stockholders Equity. In some calculations, Total Liabilities is used to for calculation.

Be Aware

Because a company can increase its ROE % by having more financial leverage, it is important to watch the leverage ratio when investing in high ROE % companies.

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African Minerals (FRA:OUV) Business Description