Sentences with phrase «average measures of»

It's worth noting that while Warren Buffet recommends index investing for average investors, he made and makes all his money doing value based investing by finding companies and stocks that represent a discount to long standing historical average measures of risk and expected return.

Thus, the performance index not only provided an average measure of school quality, but also provided more fine - grained results to guide improvement (Schafer, 2003).

They provide a better than average measure of support in corners and under brakes, but never feel anything less than comfortable wrapping around you.

If you make the parcels of gas small enough, then you reach a scale where «temperature» as an average measure of energy breaks down, where the tiny parcels of gas are constantly «heating» or «cooling» a tiny bit in the sense that the volume in question gains or loses a bit of energy during the random motion of the molecules.

Not exact matches

The average of the Bank of Canada's three preferred inflation measures was 1.4 per cent, slightly faster than the 1.3 per cent average of the previous month.

The four - week moving average of initial claims, considered a better measure of labor market trends as it irons out week - to - week volatility, fell 1,250, to 231,250 last week, the lowest level since March 31, 1973.

Shiller's CAPE ratio measures the stock price divided by the average of ten years of earnings, adjusted for inflation.

Rather than judge Canada's success on abstract measures, which have little meaning to average folk — GDP, productivity, trade balances — Trudeau's candidacy is built on a pragmatic mantra: «A strong economy is the one that provides the largest number of good jobs for the largest number of Canadians.»

But he points to a report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer released earlier this year showing that, since 2009, the debt service ratio — a measure of income spent to pay debt — has remained steady at around 14 per cent, not much higher than the long - term average.

(Wonkish detail: Labour productivity measures average productivity, but the mechanism described in the preceding paragraphs predicts that real wages should track marginal productivity — the extra output produced by an additional unit of labour.

«The increase in supply was more notable when you look at the 3 days following Thanksgiving (Nov 24 - 26th) which we measured an average of 26 % availability compared to 2 % in the three days leading up to Thanksgiving,» Munster wrote.

Authors Mark Rovere and Brett J. Skinner found that although Canada is one of the biggest spenders on national health care within the 27 - member Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), it nevertheless ranked below average on most of the indicators measuring availability of medical resources and services.

In 2008, the institution's leadership team learned through the results of the first Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers Systems (HCAHPS) that patients» perception of their experience at the clinic was well below average in virtually every individual measure.

Since 1980, tech companies have gone public with average price - to - sales ratios of 5.8, so by that measure valuations aren't out of whack.

Environment takes into account both physical and emotional factors, and the average number of hours worked each week; income considers mid-level salary and growth potential; outlook measures potential for employment growth and income growth, as well as unemployment rates; and stress takes into account 11 different factors including travel, deadlines, and interaction with the public.

Return on average common equity (ROE), a measure of how well the bank uses shareholder money to generate profit, was 6.4 % in the quarter, down from 14.7 % a year earlier.

But TV ratings and digital broadcasts are measured in totally different ways, and when Next Level Media broke the numbers apart, it concluded that at least four times as many people watched an NBA Finals game on average as tuned in for League of Legends finals.

His firm estimated that $ 75 billion in insured losses would result in an average industry - wide combined ratio, a closely - watched measure of expenses to premium income, of 106 percent compared with 95 percent in 2016.

LLC's 2016 FDD provides that $ 3,187,100 is the average annual gross sales achieved by the «top third» of PSP franchisees (measured by gross sales), which consists of 55 reporting franchised stores during the measurement period beginning 1/4/15 and ending 1/2/16.

The following tables illustrate the calculation of our operating measures ARPU and Average Billings Per User (ABPU) and reconcile these measures to the related service revenues:

This strategy may bring some measure of success to business owners with lists consisting of hundreds of thousands of contacts, but not for the average entrepreneur.

Among their findings: If you use the frequency of calls between people as a measure of the strength of their relationship, then people have, on average, 4.1 intimate relationships.

The average GMAT score for Rotman's 2013 entering class was 674, and York University's Schulich School of Business says a competitive score would be 660 with a balanced score — that is, in at least the 50th percentile — across the four measures of the exam.

As of mid-2015, the measure (see blue line in chart) shows that less than a third of disposable income is required by a representative Canadian household for mortgage payments and utility fees — below the long term average (brown line).

The report also said the average of the Bank of Canada's three measures of core inflation, which are designed to leave out the noise of more - volatile items like gasoline, was two per cent last month.

However, for completeness, here is the U.S. data, Average Hourly Earnings of Production and Nonsupervisory Employees (measured in U.S. dollars).

The four - week moving average of claims, seen as a better measure of labor market trends as it irons out week - to - week volatility, fell 3,250 to 289,750 last week.

The four - week moving average of initial claims, viewed as a better measure of labor market trends as it irons out week - to - week volatility, fell 2,250 to 229,250 last week.

The US News methodology uses a number of measures — like selectivity, employment rates, and bar passage rate — to rank top law schools, and the weighted average of these scores determines the ranking.

If you're skeptical about an «innovation index» meaning much in a practical sense, then consider this: in terms of productivity (measured by GDP per hour worked), Canada ranks far below the G7 average — a staggering 12 per cent below, in fact — and only marginally above that of the broader OECD.

Brazil, Indonesia, many parts of Africa and Canada typically experience larger wildfires (measured by area burned) than the United States on a yearly average.

Speech from the Throne should discuss a variety of measures aimed at lowering the average price of goods for consumers:

For me, the biggest disconnect of all is the fact that while Americans are more prosperous by Martin's measure, Canadians now have a higher average household net worth.

System - wide sales growth and comparable sales are measured on a constant currency basis, which means that results exclude the effect of foreign currency translation and are calculated by translating prior year results at current year monthly average exchange rates.

Short interest, a measure of how many investors are betting that the stock will go down, is up 36 %, to $ 4.1 billion, from its average last year, according to Ihor Dusaniwsky, head of research at financial analytics firm S3 Partners.

That's why so much of the floorplan, labor and customer interaction tended to be centered around the cash register and metrics like sales per square foot and average transaction size were used to measure success.

Over the period measured, such funds produced a net return of 8.95 percent, which is far better than the 2.69 percent average return of hedge funds in general.

With the economy either at or beyond full employment and the consumer price index — a measure of the inflation in consumer prices — at 2.1 percent, the real 10 - year interest rate is 0.4 percent, Jones explained, roughly 300 basis points below the historical average.

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After accounting for the impacts of measures and adjustments, the Sales Tax revenue base is projected to grow at an average annual rate of 4.3 per cent over the forecast period, roughly consistent with the average annual growth in nominal consumption of 4.0 per cent over this period.

Branding's most impressive values are actually somewhat invisible, unless you try to measure them with qualitative user surveys; for example, how can you measure the average person's «awareness» of your brand?

To create a single measure that draws on each of these different methodological strengths, we combined these component measures into a single Composite Index of Classroom Engagement (CICE), which was the average of teacher ratings, student ratings, independent photo ratings, and redirects.

Unadjusted career average earnings will result in a smaller denominator than career average earnings that are adjusted to reflect wage growth, as in the C / QPP benefit rate calculation, and both are likely to be lower than a measure of best average earnings for people whose earnings are high relative to average earnings for limited periods of time.

Benjamin Graham was fond of averaging profit per share for the past seven years to balance out highs and lows in the economy because, if you attempted to measure the p / e ratio without it, you'd get a situation where profits collapse a lot faster than stock prices making the price - to - earnings ratio look obscenely high when, in fact, it was low.

The spread between indexed and nominal yields has fallen, on average, well below survey measures of long - run inflation expectations.

This estimate is the average of the two RBA statistical measures that are designed to reduce the influence of volatile price movements.

Survey measures of business confidence have lifted from the very low levels seen at the beginning of the year to be close to their long - run average.

In addition, PBO's forecast for nominal gross domestic product (GDP)-- the broadest measure of the federal tax base - is considerably lower than the average of the private sector economists» forecasts released by the Minister of Finance on October 29, 2012.

There are a multitude of reasons as to why this occurs but it's a powerful enough force that many investors have done quite well for themselves over an investing lifetime by focusing on dividend stocks, specifically one of two strategies - dividend growth, which focuses on acquiring a diversified portfolio of companies that have raised their dividends at rates considerably above average and high dividend yield, which focuses on stocks that offer significantly above - average dividend yields as measured by the dividend rate compared to the stock market price.

The horizontal axis measures the average monthly return net of the US return over the same periods.