We believe that adjusted diluted net income per share, adjusted net income, adjusted operating income, adjusted operating income margin and adjusted EBITDA
are useful measures for investors to review, because they provide a consistent measure of the underlying financial results of our ongoing business and, in our management's view, allow for a supplemental comparison against historical results and expectations for future performance.
Management uses non-GAAP financial measures internally to evaluate the performance of the business and believes
they are useful measures that provide meaningful supplemental information to investors to consider when evaluating the performance of the Company.
The compound annual growth rate (CAGR)
is a useful measure of growth over multiple time periods.
Compound Annual Growth Rate The compound annual growth rate
is a useful measure of growth over multiple time periods.
Natural England's survey, now in its fifth year,
is a useful measure of how people engage with the natural environment from their local park to the expanses of moorland.
Senior study author Katsuhiko Yanagisawa, director general of the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology in Japan, is convinced that enough amyloid penetrates the blood — brain barrier to make its way into the bloodstream to
be a useful measure of cognitive function.
Getting back to my friend's e-mail: Yes, I believe that calories
are a useful measure of the energy contained in the foods we consume and a useful measure of the energy our bodies expend.
Whilst BMI can
be a useful measure of health for the general population it may not work for all especially individuals with more muscle mass, some athletes, and specifically body builders.
Note: Whilst BMI can
be a useful measure of health for the general population it may not work for all especially individuals with more muscle mass, some athletes, and specifically body builders.
Accurate written information and parents» evenings
are useful measures to ensure this can be achieved.
Harding praised Moe's efforts to talk about union incentives and behavior, accepted the notion that test scores
are useful measures of learning, and suggested we can all «put our heads in our hands over the state of [teacher] contracts.»
The 6 levels of taxonomy in the cognitive domain are useful for deciding the level at which a course needs to be designed.There are times when the fine distinctions between the levels
are a useful measure on which to base a learning intervention.
This is a useful measure in analyzing how well a company uses its assets to produce earnings.
Since capital is typically a constraint for earnings price - to - book
is a useful measure for analyzing the valuation of the financial company.
YTM
is a useful measure, especially when comparing bonds of different coupons and maturities.
It is a useful measure of management efficiency.
It's a useful measure of what the business should be worth to an acquirer, and approximates our base case valuation.
Whether future YOC
is a useful measure for screening dividend growth stocks is debatable, much like YOC in general.
Wind speed
is a useful measure of storm strength (cat 1 - 5, (E) F scale...), and pressure drop also (~ wind speed * distance scale ~ speed * sqrt (area) if not too elongated)-- although (I think) potential energy ~ area * (change in p ^ 2) and kinetic energy ~ area * speed ^ 2 (assumes same vertical extent, density...)
So the return we get from different energy sources can
be a useful measure when choosing which to build into our energy mix, telling us how much energy to expect from them.
There has been much discussion as to why tree ring data stopped
being a useful measure of temperature in the 60's and 70's.
The «global warming trend» since 1970 has, if anything, slightly increased since 1997 — * if * you are happy to agree that «global warming trend» measured over a period of 27 years or more
is a useful measure of global warming.
In other words, the Heat Loss Form Factor
is a useful measure of the compactness of a building.
LOC (lines of code)
is a useful measure of amount of work done in software development.
While this statistic
is a useful measure, it is important to determine why the non-library users are not using library services.
Hours Worked:
This is a useful measure for paying associates, as well as easy to calculate.
The DERS appears to
be a useful measure of detecting NSSI in clinical samples of adolescents.
Housing vacancy rates
are a useful measure to consider, along with other things, if you are a home buyer or a real estate investor.
Not exact matches
«Jews
are not generally noted for their insistence on selling their talent for the lowest possible price, which
is the most
useful measure there
is of inveterate, lost - with - all - hands stupidity.
Pingdom Tools
is an excellent resource for
measuring your site's speed and the waterfall graphic provides
useful information about exactly which aspects of your site
are causing slowdowns.
Like the unemployment rate, the employment rate
is a
useful but imperfect
measure.
We report our financial results in accordance with GAAP, but believe that certain non-GAAP financial
measures provide
useful supplemental information to investors regarding the underlying business trends and performance of our ongoing operations and
are useful for period - over-period comparisons of those operations.
The non-GAAP information presented provides investors with additional
useful information, but should not
be considered in isolation or as substitutes for the related GAAP
measures.
Management believes that these
measures, when presented in conjunction with the comparable GAAP
measures,
are useful to both management and its investors in analyzing the company's ongoing business and operating performance.
Rather, it
's only when information on sexual activity
is integrated with other
measures — such as the date of a woman
's last menstrual period — that such tracking becomes
useful, experts said.
The researchers acknowledged their findings
are limited by their small sample size, and that it would have
been useful to
measure stress and anxiety to see how this
was affecting the results.
Cree considers free cash flow to
be an operating performance and a liquidity
measure that provides
useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by the business after the purchases of property and equipment, a portion of which can then
be used to, among other things, invest in Cree's business, make strategic acquisitions, strengthen the balance sheet and repurchase stock.
The Company believes free cash flow and free cash flow conversion
are meaningful to investors as they function as
useful measures of performance, and the Company uses these
measures as an indication of the strength of the company and its ability to generate cash.
We believe that these non-GAAP
measures are useful to investors in assessing our operating performance, as it provides them with the same tools that management uses to evaluate our performance and
is responsive to questions we receive from both investors and analysts.
Either way, it
's useful for all of us to consider how we want to
measure Canadian prosperity before we go any further.
Searchmetrics
is useful for businesses doing a lot of search marketing and SEO that want to
measure the search engine rankings for selected keywords along with the traffic driven to specific pages of a website.
While management believes that these non-GAAP adjusted financial
measures provide
useful supplemental information to investors regarding the underlying performance of the company's business operations, investors
are reminded to consider these non-GAAP
measures in addition to, and not as a substitute for, financial performance
measures prepared in accordance with GAAP.
MKS management believes the presentation of these non-GAAP
measures is useful to investors for comparing prior periods and analyzing ongoing business trends and operating results.
Although our management uses these non-GAAP financial
measures for operational decision - making and considers these financial
measures to
be useful for analysts and investors, we recognize that there
are a number of limitations related to such
measures.
As it
is a non-cash charge, however, and highly dependent on our share price at the time of equity award grants, we believe that it
is useful for investors and analysts to see certain financial
measures excluding the impact of these charges in order to obtain a clearer picture of our operating performance.
We believe that it may
be useful for investors and analysts to review certain
measures both in accordance with U.S. GAAP and net of the effect of TAC, which we view as comparable to sales commissions but, unlike sales commissions,
are not deducted from U.S. GAAP revenues.
«Consider questions such as why
are you using the non-GAAP
measures and how does it provide investors
useful information,» White said during a recent conference held by the American Institute of CPAs in Washington, D.C.
Because we hold significant assets and liabilities in currencies other than our Russian ruble operating currency, and because foreign exchange fluctuations
are outside of our operational control, we believe that it
is useful to present adjusted net income and related margin
measures excluding these effects, in order to provide greater clarity regarding our operating performance.
Although the investment center approach
is extremely
useful in evaluating the overall profitability of a company as
measured by return on capital deployed, it can
be manipulated by managers who know how accounting rules work.
However, a simple price - to - earnings (P / E) ratio, whether based on a snapshot in time or a smoothed
measure of earnings, can
be more
useful, providing some indication of the possible distribution of future returns, our analysis shows.