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).
Example of Bank leverage. 1  If the bank lends Â£15 for every Â£1 of capital reserves, it will have a leverage ratio of 1/15 = 6.6%. 2  A leverage ratio of 4% would mean that for every Â£1 of capital that a bank holds in reserve, the bank can lend Â£25.