Bettors may be interested to know that if you focus on road underdogs with an over / under of 44 or
less the return on investment jumps to 19.2 %, however, the number of past matches is more than cut in half resulting in a profit of just 49.16 units.
A lot of authors are talking about how they are seeing less and
less return on free promotions like this.
Assuming your house appreciates at a modest 3 % per year, the more equity you have in your house equals
the less return on that equity.
Not exact matches
Less than two weeks after his much - publicized
return to Twitter, rapper Kanye West made a series of overtures to Trump
on the president's favorite social media platform.
From that sample, we seek out companies that have
return on equity of at least 12 % and a beta above 1, indicating that a company is
less volatile than the market average.
While he's had
less than two months
on the job, the new CEO, who quietly shed the «interim» part of his title, has many ideas that include a
return to some traditional BlackBerry designs.
Return on equity is the ratio of annualized net income
less preferred dividends to average shareholders» equity for the periods presented.
Core
return on equity is the ratio of annualized core income
less preferred dividends to adjusted average shareholders» equity for the periods presented.
You need to be prepared to show him a tangible, concrete
return on investment and to do it in
less than 15 minutes.
Average annual core
return on equity over a period is the ratio of: a) the sum of core income
less preferred dividends for the periods presented to b) the sum of: 1) the sum of the adjusted average shareholders» equity for all full years in the period presented, and 2) for partial years in the period presented, the number of quarters in that partial year divided by four, multiplied by the adjusted average shareholders» equity of the partial year.
Some of the effects were measurable — boards with more women are linked to a 53 % higher
return on equity, according to one study, and their companies go bankrupt
less frequently.
If your down -
on - her - luck pal has been sleeping
on your sofa for the past year and earned
less than $ 4,050 while you've been mostly supporting her (or him), then you may be able to claim the sponger — er, friend — as a dependent and deduct up to $ 4,050
on your federal
return, even though the two of you are not related at all.
In researching for his upcoming book
on fulfilling work, Schulich's Burke found that Johnson & Johnson saw at least a $ 4
return on every dollar it spent
on employee wellness initiatives in terms of lower health - care costs,
less absenteeism and higher productivity.
Studies show the longer someone is out
on worker's compensation, the
less likely he or she is to
return to work.
Controlled by a «militarized iPad,» the system would be based with the field unit, available
on a moment's notice to
return to base for supplies or evacuate casualities — with far
less cost or risk than a manned helicopter.
Because the other entrepreneurs in the cohort don't stand to make a
return, their decisions are based
less on planning a quick exit and more
on the potential impact that start - up could have.
The point, says Bruno, is that investors should focus
less on returns and more
on boosting their savings every year.
They are
less likely to scrutinize every comma and semicolon in your business plan, or to demand a high
return on their investment.
If you're flexible enough to fly
on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day and
return on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day, airfares can be 25 percent to 50 percent
less.
Even then the project was huge and risky — an $ 11 billion terminal and a $ 7 billion pipeline to a still - developing gas play banking
on the hope that the extraction, shipping, and liquefaction costs would combine to be
less than global LNG prices and allow a
return on investment.
At today's prices, industry forecasts of three million barrels per day by 2020 are likely to underestimate production by a bit, but the real kicker will be
on the value of that production to all concerned — governments, via taxes and royalties, and shareholders will all suffer much lower
returns from this development than they would have expected
less than a year ago if prices stay where they are today.
Other benefits of investments using debt include tax advantages and a higher
return on my investment (ROI) because I've used
less of my own money to purchase the asset.
They were rated higher
on less sick days, arriving
on time for work daily, and
returning on time from breaks than their co-workers.
In the chase for more
return with
less risk, one market watcher went yield hunting
on the S&P 500.
Late this year the price of one Bitcoin surged past $ 11,000, up from
less than $ 1,000
on Jan. 1 — a 1,000 %
return.
«If we wanted to grow
less quickly, we would need
less capital, but we think this is right thing to do and our metrics suggest the
return on investment would be very high.»
«It's going to be
less about hype and more about real, tangible ROI,» he says, using the acronym for
return on investment.
«Stocks certainly look more attractive than bonds, but the case for stocks versus other asset classes is
less clear... «So while
returns may compress from the outsized gains we have seen over the last several years, we remain constructive
on equities.
Interest rate expectations are constantly changing over the short - term but over longer periods bond
returns are more or
less based
on math.
Although the long - term
returns on real estate are
less than common stocks as a class (because an apartment building can't keep expanding), real estate can throw off large amounts of cash relative to your investment.
«
On the other hand, using the same essential measures of valuation and market action, but including periods of major economic dislocation into the dataset, produces average
return / risk inferences that are substantially
less favorable.
On average, the monthly
returns for these periods are 40 basis points
less than US
returns.
The Chart below shows
return on equity (profit
less extraordinary gains as a percentage of equity), and non residential business investment as a share of nominal GDP, from 1988.
For the rest, a better approach may be seeking more modest
returns with lower volatility, via a focus
on portfolio construction, risk exposures and
less traditional asset classes.
While there may be
less scope for huge cuts this time, decent
returns are still
on offer.
Why leave money in equities, and risk another year of lost opportunity, when fixed income securities seem to be
on the road to higher (and
less risky)
returns?
I say this because some people believe that concentrating
on less number of companies will have the highest
return overall, but only if you choose the right companies.
Join us as we discuss how Molly helped one of her clients successfully launch a Christian documentary and generate 100,000 leads for
less than $ 1 / lead, how you can use the «MAGICC» method to convert cold traffic, and how the 3 - step «Ecommerce Ad Amplifier» led to a 5.8 X
return on ad spend.
One thing we did like about iLoan was their 7 - Day Satisfaction Commitment where customers have the option to cancel and
return all loan proceeds within a week of the date
on the loan agreement — it's a
less common feature among personal loan providers.
I heard that
on average
returns from certain periods are like 10 % (or
less)
on average.
That was
on the fear that rising interest rates would hamper growth and that
returns from
less risky venues would pick up.
On a total
return basis, the Safest Dividend Yields Model Portfolio (+0.3 %) rose
less than the S&P 500 (+2.9 %) and underperformed as a long portfolio last month.
The economic gains and market
returns that emerged during the Reagan Administration began from a starting point of 10.8 % unemployment, a current account surplus, and market valuations that -
on the most historically reliable measures - were
less than one - quarter of present levels.
Assuming the exact same investments above, if you were to pay 20 % carry
on each of your investments, despite not generating any profit, you would still have to pay the full $ 20K in carry
on the one successful investment, and would therefore end up with
less money than you started with, or $ 80K
returned (probably
less after other fees and expenses).
The reason why valuations are so tightly correlated with 10 - 12 year
returns is that extreme deviations from historical norms tend to wash out over that horizon, and because interest rate fluctuations have a much
less durable impact
on market valuations than investors imagine.
A beta of 1.00 indicates that the fund's
returns will,
on average, be as volatile as the market and move in the same direction; a beta higher than 1.00 indicates that if the market rises or falls, the fund will rise or fall respectively but to a greater degree; a beta of
less than 1.00 indicates that if the market rises or falls, the fund will rise or fall to a
lesser degree.
a reduction in the rating awarded a debt or equity security; a credit agency downgrades the debt of a company, municipality, or governmental entity indicating a potential deterioration in the financial situation of the issuer and its ability to meet its obligations in full and / or
on time.; a downgrade suggests investors are
less certain to receive interest payments and
return of capital
If you write a billion - dollar 5 - year total
return swap
on Microsoft stock, that counts as $ 80 million of «total leverage exposure,» because that's 92 percent
less worrisome than the CDS.
After three consecutive years of double - digit equity market
returns [2], there was
less focus
on the need for downside protection.
«RESOLVED, that the shareholders hereby approve,
on an advisory basis, High River's proposal that Apple commit to completing not
less than $ 50 billion of share repurchases during Apple's fiscal year ending September 27, 2014 (and increase the amount authorized for share repurchases under its Capital
Return Program accordingly).»