Profitability is extremely robust, especially compared to where it was just five or ten years ago, although it's somewhat hard to compare it to
industry metrics because Starbucks is more or less in a league of its own.
Not exact matches
In the past we had excluded those executives
because data for one of our
metrics —
industry - adjusted returns — wasn't available that far back.
Understanding the
industry is very helpful when valuing companies
because different
industries might have more useful valuation
metrics than others.
These
metrics were selected by CSWA's Sustainable Winegrowing Joint Committee, comprised of 50 growers and vintners from throughout the California wine
industry,
because they met specific criteria, such as economic and environmental impact, data availability, ease of use, and state of the science.
But I think the
industry will change
because of a lot of demand for mobile traffic and in the next six months, we'll have the same
metrics for mobile as we do for web traffic.
In part, that's
because while the XD's power and capability
metrics may most closely align with HD trucks from 2003, you don't have to do anything more than clap your eyes on this Titan of
industry to realize it's a thoroughly modern pickup.
Because it's a single
metric, NPS is easy to measure, track over time, and use to benchmark your firm's client satisfaction and service quality against the rest of the
industry.
We say that
because the traditional law firm technology
industry (those companies selling technology solutions to law firms) have really fallen short in providing firms with the right tools to capture the right
metrics.
We made that departure from the
industry norm
because we feel that every renter should have the opportunity to get their questions answered in the depth they desire, and the only way to ensure that our renters insurance experts are able to give that time is to put them on salary and make production no longer a
metric.
An
industry commenter argued that instead of displaying the principal amount the consumer has paid in five years, the Bureau should replace it with the remaining unpaid principal balance
metric because it is more meaningful and is a better representation of refinancings, where higher upfront costs are financed, resulting in a lower principal amount paid over five years but a higher principal balance.