Sentences with phrase «average as a benchmark»

Both individual investors and institutional investors (like mutual fund companies and pension funds) use indexes and averages as benchmarks to evaluate performance.

For example, a large institutional bond investor may use the Industrial Bond Average as a benchmark against which to measure his or her performance in the bond market.

Just use this average as a benchmark.

Not exact matches

The Dow Jones industrial average slid more than 2.5 %, or 620 points, while the benchmark S&P 500 dropped as much as 2 %.

The benchmarks the industry relies on, such as the published average wholesale price, are built on antiquated data and bear little relation to real costs.

As a benchmark, the average growth rate across all U.S. small businesses in the time period was 8 percent, says Libby Bierman, an analyst at Sageworks.

U.S. Equity Funds enjoyed a record - breaking surge of fresh money during the second week of March, as investors shrugged off an impending U.S. rate hike and the internal struggles of Trump's administration and chased a rally that saw the benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average Index climb more than 400 points in a day.

Benchmark crude prices slipped back to average about $ 45 / bbl in August, as Russia and Saudi Arabia continued to produce at record - high levels.

The following chart also includes the option to compare the performance of GDX relative to other ETFs and benchmarks or to include indicators such as Bollinger Bands, relative strength, and moving averages.

While the Dow Jones industrial average is often used as a benchmark for the economy writ large, it is actually an amalgamation of only 30 different stocks including Apple, Walt Disney and McDonald's.

This specification provides a clear benchmark as an anchor for long - term expectations — and the average rate of inflation over the past decade was 2.7 per cent.

We averaged rates for the sample home in each city as a benchmark to show which cities are relatively cheaper or more expensive.

The benchmark has been gyrating between resistance at this short - term moving average and support at the 200 - day moving average for the past three weeks, charting large intraday swings as investors attempt to find a level of comfort amongst equity prices.

As benchmarks, we consider both buying and holding SPY (Buy - and - Hold) and trading SPY with crash protection based on the 10 - month simple moving average of the S&P 500 Index (SMA10).

Each chart also shows the average return by month for SPY as a broad market benchmark.

Since then the median name in the index was up 21 %, the average of the index members» performances was 29 %, while the index progressed by 39.5 % given the large concentration of the tail of performance in the benchmark within the index mega-cap heavyweights, as can be seen below.

Using duration of the tightening cycle or «time» as the benchmark (i.e. splitting up the various phases by 25 % increments), the S&P 500 was up an average 3.6 % (median +2.4 %); using «duration» or basis - point change as the benchmark, the first 25 % of the cycle sees an average gain of 7.2 % (median of +5.6 %).

Benchmark rates in the U.S., Germany and Japan fell below 1 percent on average for the first time as deflation emerged in Europe, oil sank below $ 50 and American wages fell.

In all, the Value Line Arithmetic Average rose 3.7 % between April 29th and June 10th, and the leading market benchmarks were in the black, as well.

It measures the average monthly performance of the Fund as compared to the average monthly performance of the Fund's benchmark, the S&P 500, for the months in which the benchmark lost money.

As an example, a recent benchmarking study on the software industry concluded that it took on average of five years for an emerging software company to reach $ 10 million in revenue.

An investment that attempts to track the performance of a specific index (sometimes referred to as a «benchmark»)-- like the popular S&P 500 Index, Nasdaq Composite Index, or Dow Jones Industrial Average.

For purposes of this paragraph, the term «general level of short - term interest rates» shall be defined as the average value over the preceding six - week interval of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's benchmark Broad Treasury financing rate on overnight repurchase agreements»

We consider as benchmarks: an equally weighted portfolio of all mutual funds, rebalanced monthly (EW All); buying and holding VTSMX; and, holding VTSMX when the S&P 500 Index is above its 10 - month simple moving average (SMA10) and Cash when the index is below its SMA10 (VTSMX: SMA10).

This is remarkable in light of the study's primary conclusion: Truly active funds (defined as funds with Active Share of 80 or greater) do outperform their benchmarks on average even after fees and expenses.

As you can see in the table above, which looks at the price differential between the Brent global benchmark price and the West Texas Intermediate price (the amount by which North American oil prices differ from average international prices each year), the problem is that the price differential between 2011 and 2013 was exceptional.

In addition, these funds must invest at least 50 % of their non-cash assets in income - generating securities such that the 3 - year weighted average yield on the equity component of the fund's portfolio is at least 1.5 times the average yield of the Canadian Equity Fund benchmark, defined as the S&P / TSX Equity Index.

For this study, the team used the average daily intake of the breastfeeding baby, around 150 millilitres of milk per kilo of weight, as a benchmark.

As a possible guide for parental quality benchmarking, P&G research finds U.S. babies get their diapers changed on average 6.3 times daily.

NAPLAN has been used as a benchmark for student performance against national averages since 2008, but just how effective is the test?

In addition, children were not learning at benchmark levels, teacher - pupil ratios averaged as high as 1:70, and many teachers lacked the training that prepared them to teach.

Those making expected progress and exceeding expected progress is likely to meet national benchmarks for most groups... As a result of discussions in March, leaders have made changes to expectations for Key Stage 1 with increased average point score (APS) achievement set as an expectation for all pupilAs a result of discussions in March, leaders have made changes to expectations for Key Stage 1 with increased average point score (APS) achievement set as an expectation for all pupilas an expectation for all pupils.

The success of this model is illustrated in their SAT scores; 43 % of IACS students meeting both math and reading college ready benchmarks on the test exceeded the state average by 11 %, as compared with only 32 % of students statewide meeting both benchmarks.

On the CPU portion of the Benchmark test, the Fire HD scored 4481, well above the category average (2,940) as well as the 7 - inch Fire HD (3,418), but below the Nexus 10 (5566) and the ASUS Infinity (5,220).

On the Benchmark CPU test, the Infinity scored a staggering 5,220, blowing away the category average of 2,752, as well as the ASUS Transformer Prime (4,097) and Toshiba Excite 10 (3,349), both of which feature earlier versions of Nvidia's quad - core Tegra 3 processor.

On the 3DMark 11 benchmark, the Pro scored 424, on a par with the W700 (412), but well below other Windows 8 Ultrabooks such as the Aspire S7 (608) and the category average of 725.

On An3DBench, a graphics benchmark, the Nook HD + scored a solid 7,699, far better than the 7,348 category average, but not as speedy as the Amazon Kindle Fire HD's mark of 8,025.

On PCMark 7, a synthetic benchmark that measures overall performance, the Acer Iconia W3 - 810 scored a modest 1,415, about half the tablet category average of 2,877 but on a par with other Atom - powered Windows 8 tablets such as the ASUS VivoTab Smart (1,399) and the HP Envy X2 (1,428).

On Geekbench 3, a synthetic benchmark that measures overall system performance, the Yoga Tablet 10 HD + scored a weak 1,483, well below the 2,211 tablet category average and about half as fast as the Nvidia Tegra 4 - powered Transformer Pad TF701T (2,712), the Exynos 5 - enabled Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 (2,776) and the Snapdragon 801 - powered Sony Xperia Z2 (2,685).

It scored just 1,371 on the Geekbench 3 benchmark test, which is lower than the tablet category average (2,522) and not as good as the Transformer Tab (2,376) or the Yoga Tablet 2 (2,396).

On PCMark 7, a synthetic benchmark that measures overall performance, the Tablet 2 scored a modest 1,428, less than half the tablet category average of 3,488, but on par with other Atom - powered Windows 8 tablets such as the HP Envy x2 (1,428), the Dell Latitude 10 (1,440) and the Acer Iconia W510 (1,305).

The following chart also includes the option to compare the performance of RZG relative to other ETFs and benchmarks or to include indicators such as Bollinger Bands, relative strength, and moving averages.

The following chart also includes the option to compare the performance of PZI relative to other ETFs and benchmarks or to include indicators such as Bollinger Bands, relative strength, and moving averages.

The following chart also includes the option to compare the performance of ONEO relative to other ETFs and benchmarks or to include indicators such as Bollinger Bands, relative strength, and moving averages.

Our research compared annual premiums using a sample driver profile as a benchmark, and found that while premiums average $ 1,147 per year for our driver, they differed dramatically by city and company.

The following chart also includes the option to compare the performance of EDOM relative to other ETFs and benchmarks or to include indicators such as Bollinger Bands, relative strength, and moving averages.

The following chart also includes the option to compare the performance of VBK relative to other ETFs and benchmarks or to include indicators such as Bollinger Bands, relative strength, and moving averages.

An average can serve as a good benchmark, but your personal situation can make the number utterly useless.

The following chart also includes the option to compare the performance of IDV relative to other ETFs and benchmarks or to include indicators such as Bollinger Bands, relative strength, and moving averages.

The following chart also includes the option to compare the performance of PXH relative to other ETFs and benchmarks or to include indicators such as Bollinger Bands, relative strength, and moving averages.