Sentences with phrase «historical performance as»

Your historical performance as a driver holds a great deal of sway with auto insurance providers.

Your historical performance as a driver out on the road has a strong bearing on your profile, as does your credit rating and your insurance coverage history.

Using CBO's baseline assumptions for spending growth, and assuming defense and nondefense R&D maintain their recent historical performance as a share of appropriations, the picture might look like the «baseline» scenario in figure 2.

Not exact matches

By using big data to identify performance trends by campaign and channel, marketers can evaluate KPIs, such as conversion rates, to help discover gaps and seize opportunities based on historical trends.

The chart depicts observed historical risk based on the performance of broad diversified indexes named in the disclosure for the chart «Drifting into risk as stock markets rise.»

But stock performance has actually outpaced gains in earnings, and as a result, US equity valuations appear stretched as we begin 2018 — for example, the S&P 500's price - earnings ratio is well above longer - term historical averages.

The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its generally high debt management risk, disappointing return on equity and generally disappointing historical performance in the stock itself.»

Since this site is a new endeavor, you don't yet have historical data to leverage as a predictor of future performance.

«An investment's past performance doesn't guarantee its future returns, but historical data can provide clues as to what might happen.»

On balance, this performance has been largely as intended, and in the context of long - term historical tests and experience, has been neither extraordinary nor disappointing overall.

As always, past performance does not ensure future returns, market behavior may differ from historical market behavior that has emerged under similar conditions, and there is no assurance that the Hussman Funds will achieve their investment objectives.

We've been consulting with clients on a variety of ways to extract keyword insight from ranked web pages, treating historical and limited keyword data as a sample and using alternative feedback in order to optimize search marketing performance.

As a supplement to our 16 - page stock reports, our dividend reports assess the safety of a stock's dividend through our Valuentum Dividend Cushion ™ ratio, the potential growth of a firm's dividend by evaluating its capacity and willingness to increase the dividend, the historical track record of the company's dividend performance, and the overall strength of the dividend by putting all of this analysis together.

Advisors are permitted to review the performance of the specific client's self - directed IRA, as well — but such advice should be limited to historical performance of the account, rather than forward - looking predictions.

It is a drama that unfolds in several contexts at once: within the historical context of a «great cloud of witnesses», that is, in relationship to all of those who speak (and have spoken) as «Christian preachers»; within the context of the speaker's own human existence in relation to other statements of faith collected as «Christian theology» within the time and space set aside for the performance of Christian liturgy.

Second, one might view this as a post-socialist era for theoretical reasons: Given the historical record of socialism in this century, one can say with some assurance that all the claims made for it have been decisively falsified» be it in terms of economic performance, of political liberation, of social equality, or of the quality of life.

In terms of entertainment in Massachusetts, you'll find sports (the Red Sox, of course), orchestras, fairs and festivals, live dance and musical performances, historical and contemporary museums, and water activities such as sailing, yachting, fishing (both freshwater and deep sea), and whale watching.

20,000 Days of Earth only qualifies as a documentary because of the performances and historical accounts, but otherwise seems very much like an auto - biopic of a man whose attitude implies he believes he's the first to contemplate the creative process, and indeed the first to explain it.

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Kapur imbues the film with the historical import and epic sweep missing from Elizabeth, and while Blanchett's firebrand performance is the film's searing centrepiece, strong supporting work from Owen, Abbie Cornish (finally impressive after many try - hard strike - outs), Morton and, especially, Geoffrey Rush as her loyal - to - a-fault servant Francis Walsingham, bring out the shades in her deeply conflicted character.

This 1995 catalog of performances by various artists may represent the historical development of a rich and enthralling art form, but it's presented in such a clinical way it might as well be a list on a chalkboard.

In television, Sutherland won both Emmy and Golden Globe awards as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the HBO film Citizen X, and he won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Clark Clifford, advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson, in the HBO historical drama Path to War.

Steve McQueen's «12 Years A Slave,» which is being promoted as a weapon against ongoing racial injustice, had some excruciatingly searing sequences, strong performances from Chiwetel Ejiofor and Lupita Nyong» o, and, alas, much narrow - eyed melodrama and painfully stiff historical re-enactments, including an embarrassing turn from co-producer Brad Pitt as the Good White Guy.

Like that earlier film — a thunderous historical epic about the American West and greed that deepens and darkens considerably with Day - Lewis's performance as Daniel Plainview, an oil - prospecting Mephistopheles — Phantom Thread continually torques its own British midcentury grandeur.

Still, as historical movies go, you know Wright is going to paint a portrait of history and Oldman is going to give a convincing performance as Churchill.

Oscar - nominated Steven Spielberg historical drama starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep (in an Academy Award - nominated performance) as the editor and publisher of the Washington Post.

Even though the adaptation of the Kathryn Stockett best - seller had detractors like Professor Melissa Harris - Perry questioning the historical accuracy of its depiction of Mississippi maids in the Sixties, there's no denying that Viola Davis delivered an Oscar - worthy performance as the movie's lead character, Aibileen Clark.

Another actor to win Oscar in his one and only try, Charlton Heston delivered a performance for the ages in William Wyler's classic historical epic as the titular Judah Ben - Hur, a former prince exiled to slavery by a former childhood friend (Stephen Boyd) turned Roman tribune.

He gives a towering, brooding, Oscar - winning performance in a film that has many merits as a piece of historical re-enactment but lacks drama and emotional pull.

Punctuated by strong performances from the entire ensemble including Eddie Izzard and Michael Gambon, this straightforward historical piece entertains as it informs making for an easy pleaser as we begin to swing around towards awards season once again.

In pleasant contrast to past major roles — as Daniel Plainview, Bill the Butcher, Christy Brown — Day - Lewis turns in a subdued, almost recessive performance, bringing a historical giant down to human scale.

Before he was ever accosted by apes, Charlton Heston galloped to Oscar gold for his performance as a Jewish prince turned slave in the 1959 historical epic Ben - Hur.

Students compare the unique interpretive and expressive natures and aesthetic qualities of traditional arts from various cultures and historical periods with contemporary new art forms (such as performance art)

The documentary Waiting for «Superman», directed by Davis Guggenheim, also has thrust the teacher - evaluation issue into the national spotlight, highlighting as it does the historical disconnect between teacher job - security and student performance.

Education secretary Morgan said the comparison was unfair as many of the schools included in the figures were forced to become academies because of poor performance, the suggestion being that their poor Ofsted ratings may relate to historical issues.

Jones urged reporters to talk to leaders of minority serving institutions as states design and unroll performance - based funding, to learn about the historical relationships between those schools and their states.

As Au notes, standardized testing regimes ignore the realities of local conditions and historical contexts that critically impact student performance.

While DS sees historical models like the Citroen SM as important — a car that didn't carry DS badging of course, but undoubtedly an inspirational car for the newly - formed marque — a dedicated high - performance model is not on the company's agenda.

The above historical performance figures from Morningstar indicate that the fund had a higher volatility (expressed as a standard deviation of returns) and underperformed the S&P 500 ® index, its best - fit benchmark, on a risk - adjusted basis (Sharpe Ratio) in both the three - and five - year trailing periods.

Using historical performance of stock indices as a basis, a portfolio comprised solely of ETFs may limit the portfolio's exposure to the price fluctuations affecting individual stocks.

Historical performance does not guarantee future performance but it can provide insights as to how a company and its management typically react during high or low inflationary years.

Meb Faber supports this point by presenting the historical performance of portfolios based on the «value» factor as compared to an example dividend investing portfolio, as shown in this graph.

The price / earnings to growth ratio (PEG ratio) is seen as a better investment tool than the P / E ratio because it considers future growth, in addition to historical performance.

Using the 10 - year U.S. Treasury Bond yield as the proxy for interest rates, Exhibit 1 shows the historical performance of the S&P 500 Low Volatility and S&P 500 indices in periods of significantly increased interest rates.

Since Schwab's fundamentally - indexed mutual funds have been in existence for over six years now, and that period spanned a significant market downturn, it is worthwhile to take a look at their historical risk - adjusted performance, as measured by the trailing five - year Sharpe Ratio (all data from Morningstar):

The fund's lack of front sales charge, coupled with a low expense ratio and turnover as well as small historical distributions of only dividend income, partially offset its unimpressive performance.

Morningstar examines historical financial performance; competitive advantages compared to the competition; intangible assets such as patents and brands; cost advantages; attributes that give a company pricing power; and efficiencies of scale, among others, in determining its moat ratings.

Further, as presented above, Wade Pfau found that the worst historical performance for stocks over a 5 - year period was about -12 % and over a 10 - year period was just -1 % (hardly any loss at all).

Bonds as ballast — Let's examine the conventional wisdom by first looking at the historical ballast performance of bonds using FIRECalc again.

The data looks at historical and current information, not future projections For - profit education stocks have a cloud of uncertainty weighing on their share prices as investors worry about the potential for litigation and additional regulation (STRA also appeared in one my recent Seeking Alpha article here where I discussed its recent performance).