Sentences with phrase «index by metrics»

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.

Not exact matches

The Global Innovation Index ranked countries by measuring seven key metrics that enable innovation in each territory:

That's not to say that it is, at least by some metrics — according to market researcher Global Web Index, Tumblr is among the fastest - growing social media outlets on the Internet, with an uptick of 94 % in active users over the last year.

The Foursquare Loyalty Index is calculated by looking at the following metrics: visit frequency, market penetration, share of wallet, and fanaticism.

Based on the price - to - book (P / B) metric, since 1995, value stocks, as defined by the Russell 1000 Value Index, have typically traded at around a 55 % discount to growth stocks.

Using this metric in America, U.S. Catholics were as sessed by Guttmacher Insti tute in the 2000s, showing an index of 1.00 — 1.04.

InStat also uses a metric they call the «Index»; it assigns a weighted value (by minutes played) for successful actions.

The discrepancy some people have noted between the view counts we used to provide on the admin screens and the metrics Google provide through Google Analytics which many people have integrated, is probably explained by the fact that the count we used to provide was probably influenced by «spiders» or robots used by the search engines when indexing the web.

I therefore don't find the index, calculated by subtracting «dissatisfied» from «satisfied,» a very convincing metric, as it compares two quite different groups of people.

So instead of using the h - index by itself, he applied a more varied menu of citation metrics and had more success.

While overall emissions of greenhouse gases from CDP's «Global 500» have shrunk from 4.2 billion to 3.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent since 2009, the index's 50 largest - emitting firms have actually seen greenhouse gas emissions rise by 1.65 percent over the same period, the organization has found.

For example, I found that the committee's decisions are more strongly related to the pre-2005 version of the Rating Percentage Index (or RPI, a widely discussed metric devised by the NCAA to rank and categorize teams), than they are to the version that's been in use since 2005.

One of the eight metrics analyzed by the study is the Keetch - Byram drought index (KBDI), a measure of the dryness of the top 8 inches of the forest floor on a scale from 0 to 800.

Wet bulb globe temperature is the heat stress metric used by the International Organization for Standardization, and it has well - validated thresholds for when humans can safely work, giving it advantages over alternative metrics such as heat index, said study co-author Chao Li, a hydroclimatology scientist at the University of Victoria in Canada.

Innovation Fund grant to support work on a School Happiness Index, a new metric that schools and districts could use that is conceptually modeled after the Global Happiness Index now being used by the United Nations.

Montera's Academic Performance Index — the state's primary metric for evaluating student achievement — had increased by 94 points in the previous three years, with the largest gain coming from black students.

Martin is a risk adjusted return metric that is the ratio between excess return, which is the compounded annualized total return above risk free T - Bill return, divided by the so - called Ulcer Index, which is a measure of extent and duration of drawdown.

-LSB-...] The Index next separates the top 25 % of these countries as measured by Cambria's proprietary long term valuation metrics.

Nevertheless, tracking income cost by this straightforward method is a reasonable proxy for the cost of future income, and S&P DJI provides this metric monthly as part of its S&P STRIDE Index Series offering.

The key rating metric in our system is Martin ratio, which measures excess return divided by the drawdown (a / k / a Ulcer) index.

I have dabbled in quantitative factor models in the past, and normally I start with an index, group by sector, and then compare each company relative to its sector (I use valuation metrics, liquidity, technical factors such as relative strength and price relative to moving averages, earnings volatility, earnings estimates revisions, balance sheet metrics, beta, and a proprietary risk / reward metric).

Their main performance metric is 7 - factor hedge fund alpha, which corrects for seven risks proxied by: (1) S&P 500 Index excess return; (2) difference between Russell 2000 Index and S&P 500 Index returns; (3) 10 - year U.S. Treasury note (T - note) yield, adjusted for duration, minus 3 - month U.S. Treasury bill yield; (4) change in spread between Moody's BAA bond and T - note, adjusted for duration; and, (5 - 7) excess returns on straddle options portfolios for currencies, commodities and bonds constructed to replicate trend - following strategies in these asset classes.

It presents a 15 year comparison of the normal MSCI Index with its Value - weighted counterpart (weighted by book value, earnings, cash earnings and sales, not dividends), and also with portfolios screened for single metrics.

So - called factor indexes (and the beta strategies that follow them), like the MSCI USA Enhanced Value Index and iShares Edge MSCI USA Value Factor ETF (VLUE), screen for securities using multiple metrics, and weight them not by market capitalization, but by their exposure to value price multiples.

Popular metrics of aggregate market valuation, such as Wilshire Total Market Index to U.S. GDP, price to forward earnings ratio, price to book value ratio, price to cash flow ratio, cyclically adjusted price to earnings ratio (CAPE), the ratio of annual forward dividend to price (dividend yield), indicate the U.S. stock market is overvalued by between 10 per cent and 60 per cent.

The Index next separates the top 25 % of these countries as measured by Cambria's proprietary long term valuation metrics.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the statistical metric developed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics used to monitor the change in the price of a set list of products.

Using a well - accepted metric called the Accumulated Cyclone Energy index or ACE for short (Bell and Chelliah 2006), which has been used by Klotzbach (2006) and Emanuel (2005)(PDI is analogous to ACE), and most recently by myself in Maue (2009), simple analysis shows that 24 - month running sums of global ACE or hurricane energy have plummeted to levels not seen in 30 years.

Well then this seems like a good place to be disgusted with this via Denial Etc. (now run by Eric Worrell, Inc.)... Global Temperature Trends Adjusted for Unforced Variability http://www.hrpub.org/download/20151130/UJG1-13905038.pdf Looks like someone is messing with the LHS of the «equation'the SAT index and the AMO index (both dependent variables and metrics of the same general type (temperature)-RRB-.

The report was co-authored by the Global Adaptation Institute (now Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index) It captures some of the latest thinking in the field of climate adaptation, vulnerability and readiness metrics, and financing, with the goal of assisting [continue reading...]

Regarding the «Hockey Stick Index» metric touted by M&M, that metric tells you only about the «shape» of the «hockey stick» PC; it tells you nothing about the hockey - stick «size».

For example, if you could get a futures contract up and running which paid off against say an index of ocean heat content which is probably the best measured and by far the most important global metric available, you would find out in short order what the market really thought about AGW.

Weight is one of the two metrics used to calculate a person's body mass index (BMI), which is then used by insurance companies to determine a person's insurability and life insurance rates.

The Home Price Index (HPI) Composite Benchmark, a key metric that the real estate board follows, was up by 8.9 % percent compared to May, 2014.