Sentences with phrase «margin as a metric»

But using net margin as a metric for stock screening has been shown to not be useful, while using price / sales HAS predictive value.

Not exact matches

At the meeting in late 2016, executives said Quidsi would also generate significant free cash flow in 2017, which is notable because Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has long said that he cares more about free cash flow than he does profit margins or profitability metrics such as operating income and net income.

We take time to explain the cost of acquiring a customer and our gross margins, so people do not just see these as metrics we need to manage, but ways of understanding if we are doing the best job finding and serving our customers well.

They will want to examine metrics such as gross margin, website traffic, revenue growth and customer metrics such as acquisition costs and lifetime value — and the history associated with each.

While a number of simple measures of valuation have also been useful over the years, even metrics such as price - to - peak earnings have been skewed by the unusual profit margins we observed at the 2007 peak, which were about 50 % above the historical norm - reflecting the combination of booming and highly leveraged financial sector profits as well as wide margins in cyclical and commodity - oriented industries.

The company has also introduced a new non-GAAP cost metric, cost of revenue per user (CoRPU), as a way to calculate its adjusted gross margin per user.

In that context, would you be able to provide a bit of insight as to how the Contribution Margin is helpful as a startup metric?

There is some downside, such as the fact that the company is solely dependent on the oil and gas industry, whereas some peers have also diversified into high - margin industrial and specialty products, but shares trade at comparable valuation metrics to peers nonetheless.

I check overall market data once per month for about 20 minutes, as I do like to have a general idea of median P / E ratios, P / B ratios, dividend yields, profit margins, and a few other general metrics.

I've focused on the EBITDA Margin to come up with a P / S Ratio (plus Cash), as it corresponds well with Operating Margins for many (but more mature) tech companies, and in reality it's the key M&A metric in the sector.

This makes the gap between predicted peak demand and available supply — known as the «de-rated capacity margin» — the most important metric for analysing the security of the system.

The profit - margin - on - operations metric could go a long way toward shedding light on nonprofitable practices and matters, as well as giving firms a better idea of what kinds of cases or matters they should be taking on.

Asset responsibility managing $ 8 Million in inventory including forecasting at part level, purchasing at best cost to increase margins, and forecasting financial metrics such as NSB, inventory projection, book to bill, and ROI.