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clicking the bell icon friends today we're going to learn a concept which is known
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as equity multiplier well to understand this we need to get into the
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nitty-gritty of the same the purpose of the equity multiplier the e/m is to see
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how much the assets of a company are financed by its total shareholder as you
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can say a total shareholders equity so that we can find out how much assets of
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the company are financed by the external source of Finance right so in this
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tutorial we'll have a closer look at the ratio and how exactly it works let's
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have a look now there is one graph that is available to you
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Facebook assets to shareholders equity ratio and you have GoDaddy's assets to
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shareholders equity ratio we see this is one of the financial leverage the equity
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multiplier is one of the financial leverage ratio busy basically it helps
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in investors to find out how much the assets have been financed by these
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shareholders equity now equity multiplies the ratio of the
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total assets to the total equity if the ratio in this ratio is higher then you
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can say that the Financial leverage is the FL is lower
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let's say this I'm talking about the ratio if the ratio is higher you can
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expect the financial leverage as lower in the end if the ratio turns out to be
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lower than what exactly the financial average is going to be higher this is
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the comparison now what do we know - over here we know that from the graph
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that GoDaddy has the highest equity multiplier of 6.73x whereas the
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Facebook has a consistent line up you can see the equity multiplier is at
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1.097 x so let's understand the formula part if you see
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the equity multiplier formula it goes something like this equity multiplier is
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your total / a total equity right so this is going
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to be a form formula along along with finding out each unit of the total
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assets for each unit of the total equity it tells a lot about how much a company
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has been financed its its assets through external source of Finance and mainly
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I'm talking about - here that is debt right let's take an example to
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illustrate this so that we have some idea exactly what we are talking about
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here with the formula let's say this is the company that's Z which has its total
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assets that are standing at $1,00,000 and it has its own total equity
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which is standing at let's say $20,000 right so what we need
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to do we need to calculate the equity multiplier over here so this is a very
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simple example but after calculating the equity multiplier we would be able to
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know how much the assets are financed by the equity and how much the assets are
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financed by the debt so this is what we are supposed to find what is the ratio
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between the financing we just need to put the figures into the equity
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multiplier formula and then we have the answer to it so the equity multiplier
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formula e M is equal to your total assets divided by your total equity so
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we'll just put on the numbers total assets divided by our total equity which
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gives our final answer as 1,00,000/ 20,000 which gives us 5 so the
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multiplier is fine that means that the total assets are financed by 20% that is
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20,000 divided by your total assets right so 20% is been financed with the
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help of equity and the debt has to be the balance right so we'll say is equal
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to 1 minus 20% so 80% financed through day this is important consideration
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since Finance leverage would be higher lower depending upon the multiplier
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whether multiplier is higher or lower which we learned here the ratio and the
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financial leverage higher the ratio lower the financial leverage and lower
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the ratio higher differential leverage so now let's understand this from the
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interpretation part now as an investor if you look at the
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company and its multiplier you would only be able to tell whether the company
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has been using high or low financial leverage ratio however to know whether
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the company is risk or company is risky or not you need to you need to do
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something else as well I mean you need to pull out similar companies that is
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the comp or comparable companies in the same industry and calculate the equity
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multiplier for the same now if you see that the result is similar to the
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company you want to invest in then you would be able to understand high or low
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financial leverage ratio I mean is the norm of the industry that means if the
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company is financing its assets by let's say debt financing I'm talking
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about and the other companies in the industry let's say are have been doing
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the same then this may be unknown basically you can say that so but you
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can say that you know the the financing assets through debt is still you can say
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a risky job risky business and that's why you need to go do to go to the
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advanced computing competition and look at the financial leverage ratio in
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complete detail right let's look at the multiplier of some sectors so that we
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have some idea regarding the same now this are some of the companies which are
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in the sector of auto manufacturing and we have couple of example let's look at
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the multiplier of some of the prominent auto manufacturers we have Ford Motors
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we have a fiat General Motors Honda Ferrari Toyota Motors and Tesla a very
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famous one and in Tata Motors what we know to be here that the equity
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multiplier over here of Ferrari is 11.85x so as per our
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our this relation the ratio over here seems to be higher so the financial
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leverage should be low in the scenario right whereas the multiplier of if you
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see Honda which is 2.60X which is the lowest among the group of
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automobile sector then you consider that the financial leverage of
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this company is higher right and overall overall we know that the multiplier is
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relatively higher for the sector you can see 8,5,5,11,2,2,4
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so relatively the numbers are quite higher now the next sort of
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example that we are going to consider is the internet contained companies example
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we will be looking at the multipliers for the intent companies there are a
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couple of companies that we have is Baidu care.com we have Facebook
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we have phoenix new media GoDaddy alphabet we have JD.com snap
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Shutterstock Twitter and Yelp right so what we know over here is that
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the Piggy's like you know the Facebook has close enough to 1.10x
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right and Twitter which is close enough to the Twitter go yeah 1.49x
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and alphabet is having close enough to 1.20x which
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have a low equity multiplier the GoDaddy has the highest level of the equity
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multiplier which is standard standing at the 6.73x and that of
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Yelp and that the Facebook has the lowest level of the multiplier which is
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standing at 1.10x now this are the list of the global banks
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I'm talking about the Bulge brackets like Bank of America Merrill Lynch
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Barclays Bank of Montreal nova Scotia Citigroup
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CIBC Credit Suisse Group East West Bank Corp HSBC and so on and so forth the
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overall we note that the global banks have the asset to the shareholders
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equity and in most cases the multiplier is you can see above 10x or close to in
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the neighborhood of 10x if you see JPMorgan has equity multiplier of
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9.80 while say Citigroup has the equity multiplier standing at
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7.96 which is the lowest among the group the next sort of industry that
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will pick up is the discounting stores as you can see there are big lots
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company I mean that the Costco Dollar General
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Fred's mart Ollie's Target Tuesday morning Walmart stores and so on and so forth
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the overall equity multiplier is standing close enough in the
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neighborhood of 1.5 to 3.5 X and the target has the highest multiplier
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standing at 3.42 - yeah that's of target whereas the owners bargain outlet has
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the lowest that is 1.6 X I hope you have got a great idea regarding the equity
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multiplier ratio so that's it for this particular topic if you have learned and
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