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corporation in terms of revenue and also the largest publicly listed food,
regression analysis to analyze and interpret the data they gathered. They also
used financial leverage ratios such as debt to equity, debt to asset, and time and
interest earned ratios while net margin, ROE, ROA, and, earnings per capital
the secondary data obtained from quarterly reports of SMC from year 2011 up to
2016. Data was analyzed using Pearson Correlation and trend analysis.
relationship with profitability. The researchers accepted the hypothesis that there
asset, and earnings per share shows figures all close to the value of 0.00 which
indicates no correlation between variables. It signifies that debt to equity has no
From the figures showed by the net margin, return on equity, return on
The limitation of this study is that it only uses the financial leverage and
than the ones discussed in this study and along these lines, it is imperative to
whether the findings will hold or not after which conclusive outcomes can be
drawn. From the results obtained, it is inferred that financial leverage does not
expenses to maintain a strategic distance from the corporation’s net loss in future
time.