The criteria include: (1) adequate size with respect to revenue, (2) strong financial condition with respect to liquidity, (3) reasonable earnings growth over a decade (4) modest price - to - earnings (P / E) ratio of 15 or less, (5) economical price - to - book (P / B) ratio of 1.5 or less, (6) 20 years of consistent dividend payments to insure the likelihood of continuation, and (7) earnings stability vis - a-vis the absence of
any losses over the previous decade.
Not exact matches
The complete breakdown of funding between intermediaries, the closure of important segments of the capital markets and the
loss of public confidence in major financial institutions were more severe than any
previous event
over a number of
decades.
During the 1990s the rate of wetlands
loss in the U.S. declined by some 80 percent
over previous decades.
The rate of ice mass
loss in the Russian Arctic has nearly doubled
over the last
decade when compared to records from the
previous 60 years, a new study shows.
Each year,
over the course of the almost two
decade study, the rate of ice
loss has increased relative to
previous years and ice mass was lost faster than the year before.