How exactly can you figure out the debt/equity ratio of a private company? We need market values of debt and market value of equity. Market value of debt is usually equated to book value of debt.
You can't do that for the market value of equity. How exactly am I supposed to calculate the D/E of a company that has negative book value of equity and is private?
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