How will
investors measure the performance of ZDV?
Owners and
investors measure the performance of their real estate assets through improved valuations, funds from operations, tenant retention and return on investment.
Not exact matches
The Company considers EBITDA to be an important
measure used to evaluate operating
performance, and the
measure is frequently used by securities analysts,
investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of companies in the industry, but this figure should not be considered in isolation.
According to a new report from public - advocacy nonprofit As You Sow, that's because most pension funds, mutual funds, and other institutional
investors continue to «rubber - stamp» exorbitant pay packages — even when a CEO's
performance doesn't
measure up.
MSCI, originally known as Morgan Stanley Capital International, provides a range of global stock indexes that professional
investors track to
measure their
performance.
Management believes analysts and
investors use Adjusted EBITDA as a supplemental
measure to evaluate overall operating
performance and facilitate comparisons with other wireless communications companies because it is indicative of T - Mobile's ongoing operating
performance and trends by excluding the impact of interest expense from financing, non-cash depreciation and amortization from capital investments, non-cash stock - based compensation, network decommissioning costs as they are not indicative of T - Mobile's ongoing operating
performance and certain other nonrecurring income and expenses.
We believe that adjusted diluted net income per share, adjusted net income, adjusted operating income, adjusted operating income margin and adjusted EBITDA are useful
measures for
investors to review, because they provide a consistent
measure of the underlying financial results of our ongoing business and, in our management's view, allow for a supplemental comparison against historical results and expectations for future
performance.
We report our financial results in accordance with GAAP, but believe that certain non-GAAP financial
measures provide useful supplemental information to
investors regarding the underlying business trends and
performance of our ongoing operations and are useful for period - over-period comparisons of those operations.
The company believes it is appropriate to disclose this
measure to help
investors analyze segment
performance and trends.
By establishing a standard for
measuring such efforts, B Corporations are a step in that direction — giving social entrepreneurs a place in the legal infrastructure of the corporate system and
investors a framework for assessing their
performance.
The company considers same - property NOI as an important operating
performance measure because it is frequently used by securities analysts and
investors to
measure only the net operating income of properties that have been owned by the company for the entire current and prior year reporting periods.
Management believes that these
measures, when presented in conjunction with the comparable GAAP
measures, are useful to both management and its
investors in analyzing the company's ongoing business and operating
performance.
FFO as Adjusted: A supplemental non-GAAP
measure that the company believes is more reflective of its core operating
performance and provides
investors and analysts an additional
measure to compare the company's
performance across reporting periods on a consistent basis by excluding items that we do not believe are indicative of our core operating
performance.
The company considers NAREIT FFO an important supplemental
measure of our operating
performance and believes it is frequently used by securities analysts,
investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of REITs, many of which present NAREIT FFO when reporting results.
Cree considers free cash flow to be an operating
performance and a liquidity
measure that provides useful information to management and
investors about the amount of cash generated by the business after the purchases of property and equipment, a portion of which can then be used to, among other things, invest in Cree's business, make strategic acquisitions, strengthen the balance sheet and repurchase stock.
Cree believes that these non-GAAP
measures, when shown in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP
measures, enhance
investors» and management's overall understanding of the Company's current financial
performance and the Company's prospects for the future, including cash flows available to pursue opportunities to enhance shareholder value.
By publishing the non-GAAP
measures, management intends to provide
investors with additional information to further analyze the Company's
performance, core results and underlying trends.
The Company believes free cash flow and free cash flow conversion are meaningful to
investors as they function as useful
measures of
performance, and the Company uses these
measures as an indication of the strength of the company and its ability to generate cash.
Management uses non-GAAP financial
measures internally to evaluate the
performance of the business and believes they are useful
measures that provide meaningful supplemental information to
investors to consider when evaluating the
performance of the Company.
We believe that these non-GAAP
measures are useful to
investors in assessing our operating
performance, as it provides them with the same tools that management uses to evaluate our
performance and is responsive to questions we receive from both
investors and analysts.
The Company believes that discussion of these additional non-GAAP
measures provides
investors with meaningful comparisons of current results to prior periods» results by excluding items that the Company does not believe reflect its fundamental business
performance.
While management believes that these non-GAAP adjusted financial
measures provide useful supplemental information to
investors regarding the underlying
performance of the company's business operations,
investors are reminded to consider these non-GAAP
measures in addition to, and not as a substitute for, financial
performance measures prepared in accordance with GAAP.
As it is a non-cash charge, however, and highly dependent on our share price at the time of equity award grants, we believe that it is useful for
investors and analysts to see certain financial
measures excluding the impact of these charges in order to obtain a clearer picture of our operating
performance.
Either way, new Fed Chair Jerome Powell's
measured and steady
performance before Congress and the media reassured
investors, settling the markets somewhat against a backdrop of supportive fundamentals, led by globally synchronized growth, massive new fiscal stimulus and robust corporate earnings.
Also, on our
Investor Relations website, you'll find supplemental financial information, which includes certain non-GAAP financial
measures discussed on this call as well as other
performance matrices.
«We believe that adjusted EBITDA is an important
measure of our operating
performance because it allows management,
investors and analysts to evaluate and assess our core operating results after removing the impact of changes in our capital structure, income - tax status and method of vehicle financing, and other items of a nonoperational nature that affect comparability,» Zipcar said in its most recent filing.
Management believes that presenting the Company's non-GAAP financial
measures is useful to
investors because it (i) provides
investors with meaningful supplemental information regarding financial
performance by excluding certain items, (ii) permits
investors to view
performance using the same tools that management uses to budget, make operating and strategic decisions, and evaluate historical
performance, and (iii) otherwise provides supplemental information that may be useful to
investors in evaluating the Company's results.
An index is a collection of specific stocks or bonds that the industry uses as a benchmark for
investors (like mutual funds) to
measure how their
performance stacks up against the «overall market segment»
performance.
They define a «
performance gap» between the time - weighted (buy - and - hold) return and the dollar - weighted (actual
investor average) return as the
measure of
investor timing ability.
Most Wall Street analysts and
investors tend to focus on return on equity as their primary
measure of company
performance.
In their July 2007 paper entitled «Why Inexperienced
Investors Do Not Learn: They Don't Know Their Past Portfolio Performance», Markus Glaser and Martin Weber measure whether individual investors can correctly estimate personal absolute and relative stock portfolio per
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performanceperformance.
«The trouble with institutional
investors is that their
performance is usually
measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick.
But
investors in hedge funds that bet on cryptoassets have less reason to gripe: these funds are comfortably beating broad
measures of market
performance.
Used as an alternative to Gross Profits (see below) as a
measure of company
performance and financial standing, often by potential
investors.
Our suite of over 900 equity and fixed income ESG Indexes designed to represent the
performance of some of the most prevalent ESG strategies can be used to help institutional
investors more effectively benchmark ESG investment
performance, issue index - based investment products, as well as manage,
measure and report on ESG mandates.
«As a long term
investor, the fund's
performance is best
measured by its success over a period of years if not decades, but we always welcome a strong quarter.»
There, Ocean Power's sinuous, 450 - foot - long cherry - red steel snake, called Pelamis after a sea snake, pumps 11,000 AC volts into a grid at the European Marine Energy Centre, an innovative test bed that can offer the sort of apples - to - apples
performance measures of sea generators that
investors and electric utilities crave.
That's the most appropriate way to
measure an ETF's
performance against its benchmark index, but it may not be the return
investors actually obtain in their own accounts.
There are other ways
performance measures can trip up
investors.
If you are a DIY
investor,
measuring your
performance is also crucial, or you'll have no idea whether your strategy is working.
Savvy
investors want a brokerage that will help them track their activity,
measure performance, and gather all the slips and documents they need at tax time.
But they are the most prominent
performance measure on screen, so you have to think a lot of
investors have made trades based on them.
Being a self - directed
investor, I've always tried to use the tools and
performance measures provided, but it's easy to use them wrong.
This, for us, is a critical requirement for
investors, because there are dozens of garbage models that purport to
measure stock market valuation, but have little (and sometimes zero or negative) correlation with subsequent market
performance.
More specifically,
investors use proxies as a benchmark to
measure the
performance of individual stocks against general trends in the marketplace.
Those that have been around long enough to provide a substantial track record, such as 3 -, 5 -, and 10 - year returns, give
investors an idea of the stability level when
measuring performance over time with a benchmark such as U.S. Treasury bills.
Swedroe also raises another important issue: most individual
investors, whatever strategy they happen to use, don't know how to
measure their
performance.
Overall
investor satisfaction with full service investment firms and financial institutions that offer wealth management and private banking services is
measured in seven factors (in order of importance): investment advisor (39 %); investment
performance (18 %); account information (17 %); product offerings (14 %); commissions and fees (8 %); website (3 %); and problem resolution (1 %).
They
measure portfolio
performance conventionally (Sharpe ratio), via effects on portfolio return distribution skewness and kurtosis (as an indicator of tail risk) and with
investor utility metrics.
Institutional bond
investors often use the indexes as a benchmark against which to
measure their
performance.