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No, I Will Not Buy Ford’S Stock. Although The Development

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No, I will not buy Ford’s stock. Although the development of this cost-efficient engine may initially bring up Ford’s stock price, such increase in stock price may not be sustainable due to the following reasons. The technology that greatly reduces the consumption of fuel will likely reduce the price of oil stocks. Because of the increasing demand for fuel economy, more and more individuals will invest in fuel efficient and environmentally friendly automobiles, the demand for crude oil will decrease and prices of oil will drop. According to the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), as fuel prices dropped, so did the fuel economy of the fuel-efficient vehicles. Moreover, the lowered price of gasoline led to …show more content…

The higher the return, the more profitable the bank is, in the sense that it utilizes assets to make profits more efficiently. Return on assets can be calculated by dividing net profit after taxes by total assets. Return on equity, on the other hand, measures profitability by looking at how a bank generates profit with the equities invested by the shareholders. It can be derived by taking the ratio of net profit after taxes and equity capital. The relationship between ROA and ROE is that ROE is equal to ROA times the equity multiplier (EM). The equity multiplier is the value of assets divided by equity capital, and it expresses how much assets there are for every dollar of equity capital. If ROA and the amount of assets are held constant, the lower equity capital is, the higher the return for the owners of the bank. For example, if a bank doubles the amount of its capital and ROA stays constant, ROE will fall to half of its original value. This relationship gives bank managers the incentive to hold less bank capital relative to assets, and to have a larger equity multiplier. When the bank is not making a considerable profit, ROE can still increase if equity capital is reduced. This is not the desired outcome of the regulators, because in most cases, the regulatory authorities ask banks to satisfy certain capital requirements. When banks have the incentive to cut off capital, they have a smaller bank capital to assets ratio than is required by the regulators. This

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