Sentences with phrase «industry averages point»

While industry averages point to low customer satisfaction rates among Applicant Tracking Systems, our customer retention rate is over 95 % year after year.

Not exact matches

On average, the 30 large and small pharmaceutical and biotech companies IDEA Pharma examined got just 11 % of their 2017 revenue from drugs developed within the past five years, says Mike Rea, the firm's CEO and one of the most insightful people I've met — no exaggeration — when it comes to pinpointing innovation choke points in the drug industry.

If the funder is selling directly to merchants, given today's sky - high marketing costs, acquisition can take a bigger chunk out of the 40 percent — more like 12 to 15 points (the industry average cost of acquisition for a $ 30,000 advance is $ 2,600).

The company's U.S. malls and outlets are 96.3 % full (about four percentage points above the industry average).

Applying the lower of these two weighted - average calculations (24 percentage points) to Canada's existing automotive manufacturing footprint (and assuming that the dislocation for Canada's industry is only proportional to the overall North American shrinkage, an assumption which is probably optimistic), allows us to generate an estimate of the potential scale of economic loss if the U.S. - Japan rules were implemented.

Although their services are superior and more innovative than many of the personal job search services offered in the industry, they are offering their programs at two different economical price points well below market average.

At that point, approximately $ 1,050 / oz, the gold price basically broke through the industry's average corporate cost of gold production.

There is a 5 point safety harness which is the industry average.

The results appear to be revealing, with her company's average scores in the most recent report being 4.15 while the industry average is 3.86 on a five - point scale for their Level 1 results and 3.94 versus the industry average of 3.62 for their Level 3 results.

Under the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, states are provided with funding to develop the technical skills of secondary and postsecondary students who elect to enroll in CTE programs.46 Currently, 12.5 million high school and college students are enrolled in CTE programs.47 These programs help keep students in school; the graduation rate of CTE students is about 90 percent, 15 percentage points higher than the national average.48 However, research on their effectiveness is still in the preliminary stages.49 The best and most effective CTE programs are linked to and supported by local business or industry; provide real - world experiences or work opportunities; give students tangible outcomes such as an industry credential or college credit; and create pathways for pursuing college or career after graduation.50

In this year's study, Volkswagen moved up two positions and came within 20 points of the industry average.

JLR has increased its proportion of fleet sales from 37 percent in 2013 to 44 percent last year and is expecting a further shift, over the next couple of years of several percentage points, towards the industry average of 46 percent.

The Hyundai brand, with a score of 94, cut its problems by 12, while Kia's score remained at 106, 10 points better than the industry average.

Industry average spending was 10.5 percent, up 0.5 percentage points.

GM spending was 12.7 percent, down 0.3 points, and the industry average was 12.3 percent, up 1.3 points.

Industry average spending was 10.7 percent of ATP, up 0.4 percentage points.

Industry average spending was 10.5 percent of ATP in November, down 0.3 percentage points month over month and up 0.2 percentage points year over year.

As a case in point, and as a direct attack on the great stuffy condescension of the traditional publishing industry, it's interesting to me that the quality of the average product shipped by the industry has become worse even as printing, publishing and binding technology has improved.

That said, JD Power's 2016 survey of customer satisfaction found that Bank of America scores just a few points below the industry average for mortgage originations, suggesting that the bank may have taken steps to raise its quality of service in this area.

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

American Express ranked highest in Benefits and Features with a factor score of 773, soaring 103 index points above the industry average.

To attract such customers, they are willing to offer credit card rates (APRs) a few percentage points below the industry average.

In the case of RLDR, MSCI Inc. says companies that have both mostly male boards and «lagging» talent management practices saw growth of their employee productivity trail industry medians by an average of 1.2 percentage points.

So the average expense ratio of the Vanguard Variable Annuity is going to be 52 basis points versus an industry average of 2.26 %, so that's about an average of 70 % savings there, which we think is important to making the value for our investors.

I hope I've already illustrated why an acquisition can v quickly be transformative... Alternatively, the market may help — at some point, maybe briefly, you're likely to be offered an inflated / industry average valuation for an inferior business.

This year's industry average was the highest ever recorded at 802 points, up 6 points from 2016.

The rise in points has, in certain cases, stemmed the jump in national average room rates, which have climbed about 14 percent over the six years ending in October 2006, based on the latest data from Smith Travel Research, which compiles and analyzes information on the lodging industry.

Card issuers relatively unpopular J.D. Power reported that the average satisfaction score for credit card users was 658 points — a number significantly below the average satisfaction level consumers reported for other financial industries, such as mortgage servicing (798), online investing (773) and retail banking (763).

Rather than value points at the industry average of a penny each, Mastercard values them at two cents each — well above what the Titanium Card's competitors offer.

Plus, pointing government money at new technologies in emerging growth industries that will provide good jobs to Americans and that can also help the average homeowner reduce their expenses (for heating, electricity, gas, etc)-- well, isn't that what the present economic downturn is absolutely calling for?

As Fox points out, it becomes a «he - said - she - said» argument, and the industry has a voice — in both courts and the public domain — that is much louder and more influential than that of the average citizen.

He points out, for example, that there's been a period of global cooling since the 18th - century onset of the Industrial Revolution — from the 1940s to the 1960s — and that average temperatures rose in Europe between 1050 and 1300, even though there was no heavy industry going on back then.

But she points out, as a self - regulating profession, the legal industry must find a way to serve those who would otherwise be excluded: «If legal fees are so out of reach that the average person doesn't have access to the justice system, we have an obligation to fill gaps in the system by requiring the profession to step up to the plate,» she says.

Its score of 851 from J.D. Power is below the industry average, and since our research consistently pointed to claims satisfaction as the best indicator of customer experience, we couldn't give Travelers the top spot in good conscience.

Even though the industry average (858) is slightly better than this, even the lower scoring companies like Progressive and Travelers perform exceptionally well in categories like coverage and discounts, so we gave them a pass on those 8 points.

With a score of 870 on a 1,000 - point scale, GEICO comes in above the industry average and places sixth among all insurance companies.

The January Employment Situation report issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows 45,000 healthcare jobs were added in December, and the industry's unemployment rate is down to 5.2 % — more than 2.5 points below the national average.

Re the first point: When an industry insider states the obvious, that there are too many registrants in the mix, which translates to there being a dilution of high quality registrants percentage-wise (similar to what has happened to the NHL expansion from six teams to thirty - plus teams whereby teams now consist mainly of average hockey players who would not have made it to the NHL in days gone by), the writing has to be on the wall.

Despite a slowdown in the pace of growth, Nordhagen pointed out that growth for the industry remains about 10 percent ahead of the historical average for revenue and same store net operating income (NOI) growth.

The current occupancy in Emeritus» portfolio is 88.3 %, about 50 basis points below the industry average.

Case also pointed out that according to the latest estimate from real estate research firm Green Street Advisors, the industry - average REIT stock price premium to net asset value stands at just 3 percent, only slightly above the 2.2 percent long - run average.