A gearing ratio measures a company's overall debt against its value. To stock analysts, investors, and lenders, the gearing ratio is an indicator of the company's financial fitness. A company may be ...

To determine the profitability of banks, simply looking at the earnings per share isn't quite enough. It's also important to know how efficiently a bank is using its assets and equity to generate ...

Casey Bond is a seasoned personal finance writer and editor. In addition to Forbes, her work has appeared on HuffPost, Business Insider, Yahoo! Finance, MSN, The Motley Fool, U.S. News & World Report, ...

I'm wondering what kind of mathematical models there are for estimating engine performance.<BR><BR>Say you want to model the performance of 1.2L tdi VW engine or a 1.3L fiat/gm engine in a car with a ...

Higher, lower, taller, shorter, more, lesshow do you have any idea what guys are talking about when it comes to rear-axle gears? It's confusing, because the slang seems to contradict the math. Let's ...

I am updating a spreadhseet that I use to track my finances (income, expenses, net worth, etc).<BR><BR>One of the indicators commonly used is the debt to income ratio. It seems that there is no ...

How do we measure beauty? The poets and romantics might argue that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but this doesn’t explain why so many actors, models, and stars are universally accepted as ...

Often, the go-to metric for investors to judge how "expensive" a stock is compared to its peers is the price-to-earnings ratio. But what if a company is investing all of its profits into growing the ...