The Silver State does indeed mine a large amount of silver, but if
you measure by value per ounce, this mineral is a distant second to gold.
According to Sheng's research, Bangladesh's textile imports from China,
measured by value, rose from 39 per cent in 2005 to 47 per cent in 2015, and similar trends could be seen in Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and other developing countries in Asia.
Business Insider recently looked at each state's biggest international trading partners as
measured by value of goods exported and imported in 2016.
Measured by value of its listed companies» securities, the New York Stock Exchange is more than three times larger than any other stock exchange in the world.
The usefulness — or utility — of each company is roughly
measured by the value of the stock.
Academic proficiency, academic growth (
measured by a value table, as well as by double - counting a student who achieved proficiency after falling short the previous year); English - language proficiency; graduation rates.
Teachers should be rewarded for producing useful student outcomes, most notably, student learning gains,
measured by value - added standards (i.e., improvement) rather than by levels of achievement at the end of a course.
We compared a principal's assessment of how effective a teacher is at raising student reading or math achievement, one of the specific items principals were asked about, with that teacher's actual ability to do so as
measured by their value added, the difference in student achievement that we can attribute to the teacher.
We find a positive correlation between a principal's assessment of how effective a teacher is at raising student achievement and that teacher's success in doing so as
measured by the value - added approach: 0.32 for reading and 0.36 for math.
Recent research has shown that high - quality early - childhood education has large impacts on outcomes such as college completion and adult earnings, but no study has identified the long - term impacts of teacher quality as
measured by value added.
The goal is to help researchers look for possible correlations between certain teaching practices and high student achievement,
measured by value - added scores.
[17] We illustrate this in Figure 2, which shows the relationship between teachers» future classroom effectiveness (at the elementary level) as
measured by value - added and their initial performance on licensure tests.
Many also are likely to be interested in outcomes other than
those measured by value - added, such as the number of teachers, or types of teachers that graduate from different institutions.
Effective teachers have high expectations for all students and help students learn, as
measured by value - added or other test - based growth measures or by alternative measures.
Some proponents of teacher evaluation reforms have conjectured that if districts would eliminate the bottom 5 to 10 percent of teachers each year, as
measured by value - added student test scores, U.S. student achievement would increase by a substantial amount — enough to catch up to high - achieving countries like Finland.3 However, there is no real - world evidence to support this idea and quite a bit to dispute it.
We also present qualitative evidence that loan - forgiveness recipients were of higher quality (as
measured by value added) than nonrecipients who taught in the same subject but were not certified and thus ineligible.
Teachers in the top quartile as
measured by value - added scores score higher than second - quartile teachers on all 16 elements of instruction that were measured.
Not exact matches
IF you
measure the
value of a chief executive
by the salary he or she takes and compare it to what heads of similar size companies receive, Andrew Forrest would come out on top in Western Australia year in, year out.
It is easy to
measure the contribution of brake pad manufacturing to gross domestic product; it is harder to determine the
value created
by a team of Stantec Inc. architects and engineers on assignment in the Caribbean.
Since
value depends on results, not inputs,
value in health care is
measured by the outcomes achieved, not the volume of services delivered, and shifting focus from volume to
value is a central challenge.
Nor is
value measured by the process of care used; process measurement and improvement are important tactics but are no substitutes for
measuring outcomes and costs.
Together, the nine shed $ 81.6 billion in
value, while the wider banking industry, as
measured by the KBW bank index, also fell about 4 % in Tuesday trading — making it the worst single day for banks since the Brexit vote in June.
We
measure the impact social media has on e-commerce
by looking at metrics such as conversion rates, average order
value, and revenue generated
by shares, likes, and tweets.
We
measured the vitality of each state's transportation system
by the
value of goods shipped
by air, land and water.
One way to look at regional impacts is the
value of each state's exported goods to Canada and Mexico in 2016, as
measured by the US Census Bureau.
We
measure the vitality of each state's transportation system
by the
value of goods shipped
by air, waterways, roads and rail.
Fast forward five years, Avon's stock market
value is down to $ 1.3 billion and McCoy is on her way out in March, having failed to improve the company
by almost any
measure.
We then ranked the remaining names
by a simple
measure of the market's perceived bankruptcy risk - Market Cap (MC) divided
by Enterprise
Value (EV).
After a sharp 10 % appreciation versus the greenback from May through September, the Canadian dollar is now sitting pretty close to its long - term fair
value, as
measured by purchasing power parity.
Since the growth is not
measured on a per share basis, Rosenstein claims management can drive up its payout
by acquiring new production volume, even if it means diluting the
value of its shares to purchase Rice's wells with stock, which Rosenstein believes is undervalued.
The forward price / earnings (PE) ratio — the price of the S&P 500 divided
by the expected earnings of those S&P 500 companies — is probably the most popular way to
measure value in the stock market.
When
measured by their total retail
value, these seasonal goods represent 16 % of Dollarama's total stock.
CBO's
measure of before - tax comprehensive income includes all cash income (including non-taxable income not reported on tax returns, such as child support), taxes paid
by businesses, [15] employees» contributions to 401 (k) retirement plans, and the estimated
value of in - kind income received from various sources (such as food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid, and employer - paid health insurance premiums).
In this period, the dollar's trade - weighted exchange
value declined 5.8 percent, as
measured by the Federal Reserve's major currencies index.
That some of the forces governing capital flows and asset
values are driven not
by market - determined expected return but
by policy
measures directed at, for example, an exchange rate objective means that at least some of what we observe in global capital markets may be attributed to these distortions.
Gold has always been the primary standard
by which we
measure value, thanks to its continued demand as a currency, store of
value and speculative asset.
In this period, the dollar's trade - weighted exchange
value rose
by 2.9 percent, as
measured by the Federal Reserve's major currencies index.
For months, some of our internal strength
measures have favored secondary stocks, indicating comparatively favorable action in indices such as the Russell 2000 and the
Value Line Arithmetic average (which is not weighted
by capitalization, so it reflects broad action).
This same mix of performance - based and time - based awards has been granted
by the Committee for the past several years and reflects HP's primary emphasis on performance driven compensation, with the time - based awards providing a
measure of retention
value, which is also an important component of the overall executive compensation arrangement.
The
measure of any credit card's
value can only be obtained
by comparing it to other available options.
Your amount realized will be
measured by the sum of the cash or the fair market
value of other property received plus your share under the partnership tax rules of our liabilities, if any.
That's why we hold over 200 individual investment positions in Strategic Growth, why we diversify across industries, why I left complete put option coverage underneath the Fund's portfolio even in response to a favorable shift in our
measures of market action two weeks ago (now neutral), why the dollar
value of our shorts never materially exceeds our long holdings, and why even in the most favorable conditions, the Fund can establish leverage only
by investing a small percentage of assets in call options (never on margin).
Figure 1 shows this
value - destroying behavior in action for GE (GE)
by comparing between the amount of money spent buying back shares and the price to economic book
value (PEBV), a
measure of the growth expectations embedded in the stock price.
The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index
measures the performance of Investment Grade securities and is selected
by a Market
Value process.
For all the reasons listed above, the correlation between these two factors is actually very weak, as demonstrated
by Tim Koller, Jack Murrin, and Thomas E. Copeland in Valuation:
Measuring and Managing the
Value of Companies (p. 80).
At Berkshire Hathaway's recent annual shareholders meeting, an investor asked Buffett about the relevance of two popular
measures of stock market
value: 1) market cap - to - GDP, which Buffett once heralded as «probably the best single
measure of where valuations stand at any given moment» and 2) the cyclically - adjusted price - earnings ratio (CAPE), which was made famous
by Nobel prize winner Robert Shiller and was seen as accurately predicting the dot - com bubble and the housing bubble.
Gain is
measured by the change in the dollar
value between the cost basis (the purchase price) and the gross proceeds received from the disposition (the selling price).
Value can be determined
by a variety of
measures, including price - to - earnings ratio, price - to - book ratio, or dividend yield.
The health of an economy is not
measured by the profits of corporations headquartered within it or the
value of its stock market.
FCF yield is a
measure used to estimate the rate of return of a stock
by comparing a company's free cash flow to its overall
value.