Not exact matches
Every
company that can should evaluate where to establish itself
by both soft and hard
metrics.
One financial
metric discussed liberally
by cloud software
companies is the recurring revenue driven
by subscriptions.
The proof is in the
metrics: According to a study
by Workboard, 69 percent of high - performing
companies surveyed rated companywide communication of business goals as their leading tool for stacking a team of top performers.
With this space getting so much interest
by all communities, there was a lot of pressure to grow quickly &
companies began focusing on
metrics such as onboarding more & more vendors, increasing queries per day
by discounting.
Every Friday afternoon, Phunware's controller emails an overview of the
company's financials to the management team, including data on key
metrics such as cash on hand, obligations, and the quick ratio, which the
company derives from dividing cash plus receivables
by current liabilities.
By limiting supply to the market, the two cartels — BPC, a partnership between the largest Russian and Belorussian
companies, and Canpotex, made up of Potash Corp. and junior partners Agrium and Mosaic — helped drive the average price of potash from a historic range of between $ 125 and $ 200 a
metric tonne to, at one point in 2009, $ 825 a
metric tonne.
They suggested weighting
companies in an index
by metrics that tell you more about how good the business is rather than just how big it is.
By that
metric, and every other, Port Equipment has done phenomenally well: In five years it's grown from five employees to 50 who are spread out among the six intermodal yards the
company now maintains for Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC).
The
company has monitored its performance
metrics aggressively and, over the past six months, managed to improve the effectiveness of its sales representatives
by more than 100 %.
The biggest
company in Canada
by market cap on the TSX — an admittedly capricious
metric — is now Valeant Pharmaceuticals, which surpassed the Royal Bank of Canada this week.
This is the fifth quarter in a row that global same - store sales have been positive, but the
company has missed analyst expectations in this
metric by 70 basis points or more.
«A DPRK - flagged tanker, SAM MA 2 owned
by Korea Samma Shipping
Company, conducted a ship - to - ship transfer of oil and fabricated documents in mid-October 2017, loading almost 1,600
metric tons of fuel oil in one transaction,» the United Nations said.
Second quarter sales at Panera's
company - owned cafes rose 4.2 % on a comparable basis, a
metric that indicates a restaurant's health
by excluding any gains from new store openings.
But
by incorporating
metrics into your innovation strategy, you give your
company a leg up.
The
company reported monthly active users, an important
metric scrutinized
by investors who worry that Twitter's growth has peaked, rose 23 percent to 284 million in the quarter.
One of the easiest ways to keep track of key
metrics for your
company is
by creating business intelligence dashboards, which track
metrics like revenues, expenses, website performance and customer satisfaction in real - time.
Develop a plan to assess the success of a
company's mentoring program
by identifying the
metrics to be used.
Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services
by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance
companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality
metrics issued
by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.
Too many
companies measure their results
by the wrong competitive
metrics, such as likes and followers.
While the stocks look expensive
by some
metrics, Robbins is focused on the
companies» ability to grow through synergies created in their mergers.
The innovation
metrics used
by companies today do not really reflect a positioning towards a future of innovative products.
One of those
metrics is the number of patents filed (and issued)
by the
company.
The customer lifetime value
metric is one that is miscalculated often, even
by the largest
companies.
A more recent report
by Aberdeen Group also concludes: «
Companies deploying formal sales training initiatives lead non-adopters in overall team attainment of sales quota (78 % vs. 63 %), customer retention (71 % vs. 66 %), the percentage of sales reps achieving quota (64 % vs. 42 %), and additional key business
metrics.»
The most popular
metrics used
by many investors are incapable of executing the most important task of any investor: finding
companies with solid profit growth.
It seems to me profit is a much better
metric for measuring success but
companies are always listed in the media
by their revenue.
In fact,
by most
metrics the
companies in the $ 5m + bucket had more impressive
metrics: higher ASPs, larger LTVs, and more employees.
Depending on a variety of
metrics that measure a
company's growth and development — for example, how it is acquiring and retaining customers, its revenue streams, and the amount of money it spends each month — the seed round may be followed
by others.
While Amazon has never looked cheap
by traditional
metrics, compared to the Dutch East India
Company, Amazon looks like a bargain.
ISDIN, another Spanish derma - cosmetics
company, say it relies on the
metrics and statistics provided
by Tmall Global to get a «more - granular look at our customers,» said Charlotte Zhang, the
company's e-commerce manager in China.
Other
companies incentivize share buybacks
by emphasizing
metrics that can be easily manipulated and have little impact on shareholder value.
Things look equally bleak based on
metrics typically used
by investors to evaluate a borrower's ability to make payments: In Asia and Latin America,
companies» debt now represents roughly four years of operating profits, up from fewer than two years prior to the financial crisis of 2008.
For decades, the computer hardware, software and services
company has linked executive pay in part to earnings per share, a
metric that can be manipulated
by share repurchases.
The response plan should definitely include the following: manage the cybersecurity incident in order to limit damages, make sure you collaborate well with the rest of your
company and with other organizations, create
metrics for measuring the incident response efficiency, prevent more
by minimizing human errors, create incident response protocols that will improve your team's effectiveness.
These
metrics are heavily influenced not only
by the relative health of public financial markets but also the ability for strategic buyers to acquire private
companies.
The first step these
companies are taking is to clearly define the makeup of their sales organization
by role, and defining the right sales
metrics for each.
In an earnings call that day, Dickey tells analysts that the
company's ultimate goal is to become the top news network in the country as measured
by ComScore
metrics.
The announcement
by the platform provided
metrics on how the
company will be close to new investors.
«While follow - on funding is a key short - term
metric, the other business - building milestones achieved
by these
companies are consistent with results seen in other North American accelerators in the Global Accelerator Network.
In response to shareholder feedback, the
company revamped its executive compensation program
by introducing a formulaic bonus scheme (which included
metrics based on TSR, production, expenses, and margins), conditioning equity awards on performance
metrics (relative TSR and absolute cash flow), and reducing Mr. Nichols» salary
by one - third.
Shares of Workday Inc (NASDAQ: WDAY) were trading lower
by more than 2 percent Thursday after the
company's better - than - expected earnings report was overshadowed
by several concerning
metrics.
To Kalanick, racial and gender diversity weren't useful
metrics by which to measure the
company.
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Shares of FXCM Inc (NYSE: FXCM) plummeted
by more than 14 percent Wednesday morning after the
company released disappointing trading
metrics.
By using a
metric called price - to - earnings (P / E) ratio, investors can see how much they will have to pay in share price on the open market to get a dollar of underlying
company profits.
But this transition should not be burdensome;
by establishing production
metrics for monitoring waste, as well as electricity consumption, gas consumption, waste water intensity and overall carbon emissions, your sites can identify ongoing efficiencies and potential cost savings for your
company to support your bottom line.
So he is responsible for establishing
metrics by which the
company tracks the effectiveness of key components of its business model.
Any decisions about assigning
metrics like letter grades to drugs — a step floated
by FDA personnel in the past to indicate the quality of different manufacturers and pressure
companies to improve — was not part of the plan.
Roughly 200,000
metric tons are caught each year, mostly in Chesapeake Bay
by a
company called Omega Protein.
But
metrics only tell a
company what has taken place, while Raccah admonishes publishers that they must look ahead
by using that data to anticipate what may work
by having a solid knowledge of what did and did not lead to a desired level of success.