financially sound, able to pay one's debts, debt-free, not in debt, out of debt, in the black, in funds, in credit, creditworthy, of good financial standing, solid, secure, profit-making
2(of a company or its balance sheet) having or showing no debt.
(公司或其决算表)无债务的
the balance sheet is almost ungeared
Example sentencesExamples
The pressure on them to do a deal is intense given its ungeared balance sheet and the fact that the industry is ripe for consolidation.
From managements' perspective, ungeared companies become potentially more vulnerable to predators.
Investment trust shareholders should win out over a unit trust with a comparable portfolio of ungeared investments.
The Investment Property Databank measured total returns in the Irish commercial property market last year at 12.7 per cent - though its measurements only deal with ungeared property portfolios.
Tachihi is one example of how investors in Japan have thrown out the baby with the bath water - shunning even highly-liquid, ungeared, and soundly-capitalised companies with good potential.
The progress in the past three years from a highly leveraged group to one that is almost ungeared has been achieved largely by the disposal of assets.
In addition, its ungeared balance sheet means it is well placed to fund an expansion programme without recourse to shareholders for further capital.
For example, GE Money might be a huge money machine but it uses the parent company's ungeared industrial assets to grow its business.
The French phone company, like its UK rival BT, is now labouring under a mountain of debt while Vodafone is relatively ungeared.
The company's dividend has been restored and its ungeared balance sheet can comfortably support the investment needed to rebuild the brand and drive continued recovery.