MHI: Mitsubishi has too much cash

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan's biggest revenue earner for shipbuilding, power plant and aircraft, repaid borrowings totaling 100 billion ($614 million) in the financial year ending last March.

1987 – Year of the shrinking market?  At the same time, the company changed the composition of its liabilities by raising cheaper funds through issues of domestic and international debentures. Its outstanding debt fell below 1 trillion ($6 billion) for the first time for five years. It was 940 billion ($5.8 billion) at the end of March 1986.

In August 1986, MHI issued 100 billion ($614 million) of 15-year convertible debentures. The company’s executive director, Yu Tashiro, said: “For the moment, MHI has no specific demand for funds, but the company is raising long-term stable funds in the period of easy credit.

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