Leverage and Profitability in Selected Defense Industries.

Abstract

The object of this study was to obtain an understanding of corporate financial structures and ratios using financial reports of twelve major defense contractors as a data base; to determine if correlation exists between the contractor's use of debt (financial leverage) and profitability (net earning/stockholders' equity); and to develop an annotated bibliography of sources of business and financial information. The author compiled, analyzed and prepared graphical presentations of financial statistics on twelve defense contractors in five industries: shipbuilding, surface effect ship construction, electronic test instruments, weapons system (diversified) and semiconductor manufacturing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 08, 1976
Accession Number
ADA036515

Entities

People

  • Richard David Schulman

Organizations

  • Defense Systems Management College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Commerce
  • Corporations
  • Databases
  • Defense Industry
  • Defense Systems
  • Economic Analysis
  • Economics
  • Fabrication
  • Finance
  • Money
  • New York
  • Semiconductors
  • Shipbuilding
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistics
  • Systems Management
  • United States

Readers

  • Economics
  • Library and Information Science
  • Regression Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics