4.2 FINANCIAL DEPENDENCY RATIO The behavior of financial dependency ratios did not appear in the group of companies with significant structural break. The time series used for the test was based on the average indicator of financial Dependency ratio of the 75 companies and it was unable to be modeled by SARIMAX. Even by processing a more homogeneous series, with the average calculated for 63 companies, and after withdrawing 12 very volatile series that presented outliers (values that differed the equivalent of five standard deviations) in its long-term behavior, we do not identify a structural break signal in their behavior (Table 4). We highlight that the same result was found when three companies were included that had data available up until the third quarter of 2014; one of them presented high volatility, and thus, a total of 65 companies were processed. Neither did we find a structural break in the average number of representative ratios of companies with positive net equity (second line of results in table 4), indicating that the existence of unsecured liabilities at any moment of the series also in the debt ratio did not influence the path of the averages of Financial Dependency Ratios.