Sentences with phrase «based measures of performance»

«The transition of information security to a business discussion at the board level highlights the market need for objective, evidence - based measures of performance.

Not exact matches

This revision was made to align with how management measures performance internally and focuses on trends of a more stable base of stores.

Management believes analysts and investors use Adjusted EBITDA as a supplemental measure to evaluate overall operating performance and facilitate comparisons with other wireless communications companies because it is indicative of T - Mobile's ongoing operating performance and trends by excluding the impact of interest expense from financing, non-cash depreciation and amortization from capital investments, non-cash stock - based compensation, network decommissioning costs as they are not indicative of T - Mobile's ongoing operating performance and certain other nonrecurring income and expenses.

FFO as Adjusted: A supplemental non-GAAP measure that the company believes is more reflective of its core operating performance and provides investors and analysts an additional measure to compare the company's performance across reporting periods on a consistent basis by excluding items that we do not believe are indicative of our core operating performance.

The performance goals upon which the payment or vesting of any Incentive Award (other than Options and stock appreciation rights) that is intended to qualify as Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return performance goals upon which the payment or vesting of any Incentive Award (other than Options and stock appreciation rights) that is intended to qualify as Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on invested

This same mix of performance - based and time - based awards has been granted by the Committee for the past several years and reflects HP's primary emphasis on performance driven compensation, with the time - based awards providing a measure of retention value, which is also an important component of the overall executive compensation arrangement.

Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is a broad - based, market - value - weighted benchmark that measures the performance of the U.S.dollar - denominated, investment - grade, fixed - rate, taxable bond market.

The proposed 2015 Stock Incentive Plan would amend, restate and rename the 2010 Stock Incentive Plan and would include additional criteria by which performance - based awards of cash or stock may be measured, and would otherwise amend the 2010 Stock Incentive Plan as described below.

It's also important that traders don't measure profits based on percentages or pips gained or lost on each trade or based on the percentage account performance over xyz period of time.

Performance Measures may be applied on a pre-tax or post-tax basis, and based upon the performance of Walmart, of any Affiliate, of a division thereof, or other business unit, or of an individualPerformance Measures may be applied on a pre-tax or post-tax basis, and based upon the performance of Walmart, of any Affiliate, of a division thereof, or other business unit, or of an individualperformance of Walmart, of any Affiliate, of a division thereof, or other business unit, or of an individual Recipient.

Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures to assist in comparing the Company's performance on a consistent basis for purposes of business decision making by removing the impact of certain items that management believes do not directly reflect the Company's core operations.

For each fund with at least a three - year history, Morningstar calculates a Morningstar Ratingä based on a Morningstar Risk - Adjusted Return measure that accounts for variation in a fund's monthly performance (including the effects of sales charges, loads, and redemption fees), placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance.

2) Because of this performance streak in small and mid-cap stocks (which make up the majority of stocks, but not the majority of market cap), breadth measures based solely on advance - decline statistics have not yet picked up the deterioration in sponsorship that's evident if we examine other market internals such as industry group action, interest - sensitive securities, and trading volume; and,

Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures to assist in comparing the Company's performance on a consistent basis for purposes of business decision making by removing the impact of certain items that management believes do not directly reflect the Company's underlying operations.

SMP's compensation committee uses EVA because «the principles of an EVA program have a better statistical correlation with the creation of value for stockholders than a cash incentive program based on performance measures.»

investment management professionals (43 %) receive more than half of their compensation based on their annual performance; similarly, nearly 80 % of investment management professionals surveyed have less than half of their compensation based on longer - term performance measures.

In addition, the structure of compensation incentives in the investment management industry further encourages the short - term focus; a surprisingly large number of investment professionals have less than half of their compensation based on longer - term performance measures.

StarMine, a Thomson Reuters company, objectively measures the performance of analysts based on the returns of their buy / sell recommendations and the accuracy of their earnings estimates.

A: Performance measures, except ROA and ROE, are based on the weighted average of annualized 1, 2, and 3 year data.

The Index measures the performance of a selected group of equity securities issued by companies that have provided relatively high dividend yields on a consistent basis over time.

As disclosed in the proxy statement filed in advance of its 2006 shareholder meeting, in 2005 the Devon board paid CEO J. Larry Nichols a $ 1.1 million salary, a $ 2.2 million bonus (based on a non-formulaic assessment of performance), and stock and options with an aggregate grant - date value of more than $ 7 million (none of which was tied to performance measures).

MSCI All Country World Index ex USA — The MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI) ex USA is a free float - adjusted market capitalization weighted index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of developed and emerging markets that excludes companies based in the United States.

The research found that the annualized alpha, a measure of performance on a risk - adjusted basis, of younger fund managers fell nearly 16 percent during a divorce, while that of...

Our suite of over 900 equity and fixed income ESG Indexes designed to represent the performance of some of the most prevalent ESG strategies can be used to help institutional investors more effectively benchmark ESG investment performance, issue index - based investment products, as well as manage, measure and report on ESG mandates.

The Doing Business distance to frontier score measures the gap between a particular economy's performance and the best practice, and serves as basis for the ease of doing business rankings.

B Corporations are measured on the basis of their environmental and social / community impact in addition to their financial performance.

While process - based certification is the approach that will be used at the launch of the program, CSWA is initiating a project to develop industry - wide metrics to measure and track sustainability performance.

We'll stick with the Power Ratings and observe that New England is the stronger team based on their performance, strength of schedule and overall quality measures.

A Guest post by Liam Corbett of www.averageopposition.com - a new stats based site with a difference - it measures the team and player performances not just on the normal numbers, but on the level of opposition.

As with other neuropsychological testing tools, the value of the SAC in concussion assessment is maximized when individual baseline test data is available because, without such baselines, the athlete's postinjury performance on neuropsychological testing and other concussion assessment measures, such as the SAC, must be interpreted by comparison with a generalized «normal» based on a large population sample.

Lawmakers last year agreed to linking Common Core - based testing to the results of teacher performance evaluations, a measure that was sought by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and linked to a boost in school aid.

The system is based on multiple measures of performance including student achievement and rigorous classroom observations.

The Governor's framework outlined a reasonable and rigorous evaluation system based on multiple measures of performance and fulfilled the commitment made by New York in its application for Race to the Top grant funding.

They implemented a rigorous teacher evaluation system, based on multiple measures of performance.

The new evaluation system will provide clear standards and significant guidance to local school districts for implementation of teacher evaluations based on multiple measures of performance including student achievement and rigorous classroom observations.

Deem said the ferret - based measures are one - third as predictive as the pEpitope method that has consistent performance over decades of flu data.

Based on the results, researchers suggest two new metrics, which should be standardized, for measuring OPO performance: evaluating donation percentage — the percentage of possible deceased - donors who become actual donors — and tracking organs transplanted per possible donor.

While late - term gestation was associated with an increase in the rate of abnormal conditions at birth and with worse physical outcomes during childhood, it was also associated with better performance on all three measures of school - based cognitive functioning measures during childhood,» the study concludes.

A Singapore - based team of scientists from the Institute of High Performance Computing, A * STAR and The Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific has presented a model that looks into the logistics of disaster relief using open data and tools and measures developed in the field of network science.

Treatment outcomes were evaluated using blood - based muscle damage markers and hormones, perceptual measures of muscle soreness, and counter-movement jump performance.

Since the mid-2000s, performance funding programs, which fund colleges based on institutional «output» measures — including retention and graduation rates — rather than «inputs» such as the number of students enrolled, have gained in popularity.

Even though their exercise performance was higher on the water treadmill, patients felt they weren't working as hard as on the land treadmill, based on a measure called rating of perceived exertion.

Several performance reporting systems now report publicly on aspects of quality such as surgical outcomes, 8 adherence to evidence - based quality measures, 9,10 and patients» assessments of care, 11 but few public reports about the quality of health care organizations have also assessed the equity of care provided by those organizations.

Supplementary Fig. 36a shows the performance of the model based on the TIN measure at the tissue level, while Supplementary Fig. 36b compares the predictions based on TIN with the predictions based on gene expression at the individual level.

Task - based functional connectivity measures the synchronization of activation levels between brain regions during the performance of a given cognitive task.

We also generated measures of cultural exposure for these students based on the number of performances they had seen with their schools at the Walton Arts Center.

Opting out adds noise to the data, which increases the amount of variability in the teacher performance measures because each teacher's score is based on fewer students.

My colleague Katharine Lindquist and I used statewide data from North Carolina to simulate the impact of opt - out on test - score - based measures of teacher performance.

Uniform Education Standards Seen Timely The Washington Times, May 16, 2011» «Pencil - and - paper - based tests are not capable of measuring complex intellectual performances,» said Chris Dede, a professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.»

In contrast to earlier tests that were mostly «based on the nouns, measuring what students knew,» claims Justin, «what we're now measuring [on CCSS assessments] is the verbs, which live in the land of performance assessment.