IRR, or internal rate of return, is
a standard metric used to determine the profitability of an investment.
We measure the economic, social and environmental impact of our investments using industry -
standard metrics, including the Impact Reporting and Investment Standards.
Rapid share price growth and high valuations based on
standard metrics, such as price / earnings ratio or price / sales, characterize a tech bubble.
This is
a standard metric and is probably something you look at on a regular basis regardless of link building campaigns — if you don't — I worry for your clients.
And even if Benchmark's relationship with Uber frayed at the end, their collaboration still produced billions of dollars for both parties — a success by
the standard metrics of Silicon Valley that shouldn't go unnoticed by the current crop of rising star founders.
Paid acquisitions and Facebook ad acquisitions vary a lot more, but can still beat industry
standard metrics if done right.
If all you look at are
standard metrics such as gross domestic product (GDP) and total income, he says, then in most countries you're seeing only rich people: The poor have so little money that they barely register.
Even if the courts settle on
a standard metric, judges might need an expert in each case.
The lack of
any standard metrics in the dating industry is a decade - old problem with no solution in sight.
Standard metrics are not particularly good, and what's being developed for online could be applied to f2f as well.
Standard metric units for length, weight and capacity are introduced and related to everyday objects.
The G550 is a difficult vehicle to recommend based on most
standard metrics.
According to Mitsubishi, the KBB award measures overall vehicle quality and value based on expert evaluation and
standard metrics.
It is
a standard metric used in judging stocks.
Think about it: income is such
a standard metric for loan repayment.
Smart Dividend Stocks has examined every dividend aristocrat currently on the list and compared them across
standard metrics such as P / E and EV / EBITDA.
This practice is important in what Richard calls the «delta quadrant» — transition economies or distressed sectors where information is not easily available and
standard metrics don't apply.
In evaluating performance, traditional investors focus on
standard metrics such as return, risk, tracking error, and other familiar modern portfolio theory statistics; however, ESG investors require all of these metrics plus more.
«The second segment serves borrowers that do not fit
the standard metric.
FICO credit scores are
the standard metric used by lenders to judge your creditworthiness.
Remember, in an asset management company acquisition, profitability's fairly irrelevant —
the standard metric is to pay a % of AUM (if you're set up on ADVFN, there's more ARGO comment here).
Well, it's tough to be honest, but a very
standard metric is to determine how many employees will be on the team, and multiply their cost by the amount of time the game is in development.
See, there is an issue with the short bus scientists not being able to comprehend how improved data acquisition can impact
standard metrics.
Finds that many
standard metrics such as sea - ice area or volume only permit limited inferences about the shortcomings of individual models
A standard metric is the global mean, annually averaged all - sky forcing at the tropopause for doubled atmospheric CO2.
Two
standard metrics summarize the sensitivity of global surface temperature to an externally imposed radiative forcing.
«As quality health outcomes are becoming more important to financial success for skilled nursing operators, investors must have easy access to industry
standard metrics in a tool with which they are already familiar, NIC MAP Data Service,» said Steven Littlehale, executive vice president and chief clinical officer, PointRight.
Not exact matches
Differing safety
standards and other regulatory disparities — even those as simple as converting speedometers from
metric to imperial — make it impractical for individuals to cross-border shop, says Desrosiers.
We used to consider total number of deals in the pipeline as a
standard measure for evaluating sales progress — it turns out, a different
metric, pipeline velocity, was actually a much better predictor of monthly and quarterly numbers.
For better or worse (profitable or unprofitable), he measures success (and failure) with an entrepreneur's
metrics so judging his plans through usual business
standards will only lead to frustration and extreme skepticism.»
By the time she delivered a commencement speech at Smith College in 2013, she was preaching the gospel of a good night's sleep and asking graduates to measure their lives by a «third
metric» — changing the world for the better — in addition to those timeless
standards, money and power.
Although ACT's credit protection
metrics will fluctuate because of acquisitions and variations in gasoline prices,
Standard & Poor's believes that the risk of a sharp increase in debt for a major acquisition is reduced somewhat because of the dearth of large targets.
LearnStorm came from the idea of we can create these great experiences online that are aligned with
standards that are really good for students and they correlate with success
metrics, but you need the the students to engage with them.
Everything today is out there — to be tracked, measured, reported and shared — and every business, source, publisher, supplier and vendor will be held to new
standards of measurement and accountability as users and customers increasingly demand concrete results and performance
metrics to justify their outlays.
More so than other stock pickers, low - volatility fund managers focus on
metrics like beta,
standard deviation and Sharpe ratios.
Consider the following
standard performance
metrics:
And valuation
metrics based on revenue / earnings forecasts use
standard Wall Street analyst «hockey stick» projections.
Trucking Efficiency informed the government's new, more - stringent fuel economy and emissions
standards for heavy - duty trucks — estimated to save 1 billion
metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions and $ 170 billion in fuel costs.
Key performance
metrics are annualized average gross return, annualized
standard deviation of returns, annualized gross Sharpe ratio (assuming risk - free rate 0 %) and maximum drawdown.
EVA has been a target
metric in
Standard Motor's executive compensation plan since 1998.
The February 2018 decrease in applications for both conventional and government purchase mortgages as well as any changes in credit
standards, a
metric of mortgage supply, will be closely tracked for evidence of a longer declining trend.
«Starbucks» performance throughout fiscal 2015 was outstanding by any
standard,
metric, or comparison.
We also measured market concentration using a
standard economic
metric called the Herfindahl - Hirschman Index (HHI).
Whiteheadian cosmology embraces the notion of a uniform
metric structure for the space - time continuum that is independent of the material objects commonly said to be «in» space - time and also that is independent of the material objects appropriated as
standards of spatio - temporal measurement.
For Whitehead, a uniform and independent
metric structure is presupposed by measurement in the space - time continuum and in particular is necessitated by any attempt, so it seems to Whitehead, to establish
standard conditions or to introduce correction factors ensuring the self - congruence of measuring devices under transport.
As of 2012, approximately 40 % of world coffee production (3.3 million
metric tons) was compliant with some sort of
standard — including Fairtrade and others not listed here.
Walmart recently announced that as part of moves to cut 20 million
metric tons of greenhouse gas from its supply chain by the end of 2015, it is demanding stricter quality and environmental
standards from its Chinese suppliers, and is looking at factories» air emissions and management disposal of hazardous waste.
Calidad de la Cerveza de Barril para Comerciantes Minoristas contains
standard units of measurement (rather than
metric units) to reflect the common equipment and technology in use in North America.
Then, when those same outcomes stick out like a sore thumb to bench one guy, he chooses somebody else with good (by the team's
standards this series) outcome - based
metrics.
What the
metrics say: TCU's defense has been susceptible to giving up big plays, ranking 112th in
Standard Downs explosiveness (defined here and here).