To accommodate surface mount technology, SMT, a completely new set of components was needed. New SMT outlines were required, and often the same components, e.g. ICs were sold in both traditional leaded packages and SMT packages.
The most well known financial leverage ratio is the debt-to-equity ratio. It is expressed as: Total debt / Total Equity. For example, if a company has $10M in debt and $20M in equity, it has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.50 = ($10M/$20M).
(1) Any ratio used to calculate the financial leverage of a company to get an idea of that company's methods of financing or measure its ability to meet its financial obligations.There are several ratios, but the main factors evaluated by a ratio include debt, equity, assets, and interest expenses.enerally, companies with higher leverage as determined by a leverage ratio are thought to be more risky because they have more liabilities and less equity. A leverage ratio is also called a gearing ratio or an equity multiplier.