News Communications (News Communications) Debt-to-Equity : -0.52 (As of Dec. 2004)

News Communications Debt-to-Equity Chart

News Communications Annual Data
	Trend	Nov96	Nov97	Nov98	Nov99	Dec00	Dec01	Dec02	Dec03	Dec04
Debt-to-Equity		Get a 7-Day Free Trial				0.03	0.03	0.13	0.65	-0.52

News Communications Semi-Annual Data
	Nov96	Nov97	Nov98	Nov99	Dec00	Dec01	Dec02	Dec03	Dec04
Debt-to-Equity	Get a 7-Day Free Trial				0.03	0.03	0.13	0.65	-0.52

Competitive Comparison of News Communications's Debt-to-Equity

For the Publishing subindustry, News Communications'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.

News Communications's Debt-to-Equity Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, News Communications's Debt-to-Equity distribution charts can be found below:

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

News Communications Debt-to-Equity Calculation

Debt to Equity measures the financial leverage a company has.

News Communications's Debt to Equity Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2004 is calculated as

News Communications's Debt to Equity Ratio for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2004 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.

News Communications  (OTCPK:NWCM) 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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