Sentences with phrase «measure of comparison»

Or do some of them, at least, provide clients with a measure of comparison between law firms, practice groups and lawyers?

As a measure of comparison, the worst rating on a bond is C and a defaulted bond has a D rating.

The before photo is the «ugly» version that no one is supposed to care about, except as a measure of comparison to how much more beautiful and better the «after» is.

Not exact matches

Rather, the Company believes that the presentation of these adjusted measures provide additional information to investors to facilitate the comparison of past and present results, excluding those items that the Company does not believe are indicative of our ongoing operations due to its nature.

«The sheer mountain of coverage is so far above every other celebrity there's no comparison,» says Paul Senatori, cofounder and head of analytics at mediaQuant, a Portland, Ore. company that measures «earned media,» or all the news coverage that isn't paid.

This measures how much buyers of stock are willing to pay for a dollar of earnings (a good layperson's comparison is to think of how much a home buyer is willing to pay per square foot of a house.

Management believes analysts and investors use Adjusted EBITDA as a supplemental measure to evaluate overall operating performance and facilitate comparisons with other wireless communications companies because it is indicative of T - Mobile's ongoing operating performance and trends by excluding the impact of interest expense from financing, non-cash depreciation and amortization from capital investments, non-cash stock - based compensation, network decommissioning costs as they are not indicative of T - Mobile's ongoing operating performance and certain other nonrecurring income and expenses.

It's also greater than the 3.4 percent rate of employment growth measure in a comparison group of small, non-clustered businesses based on Dun & Bradstreet data.

We believe that adjusted diluted net income per share, adjusted net income, adjusted operating income, adjusted operating income margin and adjusted EBITDA are useful measures for investors to review, because they provide a consistent measure of the underlying financial results of our ongoing business and, in our management's view, allow for a supplemental comparison against historical results and expectations for future performance.

We report our financial results in accordance with GAAP, but believe that certain non-GAAP financial measures provide useful supplemental information to investors regarding the underlying business trends and performance of our ongoing operations and are useful for period - over-period comparisons of those operations.

Moreover, other companies may define non-GAAP measures differently, which limits the usefulness of these measures for comparisons with such other companies.

Comparison of our presentation of NAREIT FFO to similarly titled measures for other REITs may not necessarily be meaningful due to possible differences in the application of the NAREIT definition used by such REITs.

And if you condense the period of comparison to 63 days, the measure of stock - specific risk is the highest since 2000, when the dotcom bubble was still swelling, according to Morgan Stanley data.

Management believes these measures offer the ability to make period - to - period comparisons that are not impacted by certain items that can cause dramatic changes in reported operating results, to perform trend analysis, to better identify operating trends that may otherwise be masked or distorted by these types of items and to provide additional transparency of certain items.

The Company believes that discussion of these additional non-GAAP measures provides investors with meaningful comparisons of current results to prior periods» results by excluding items that the Company does not believe reflect its fundamental business performance.

By disclosing these non-GAAP measures, we intend to provide investors with a consistent comparison of our operating results and trends for the periods presented.

Therefore, we believe that the presentation of non-GAAP financial measures that adjust for the amortization of intangible assets provides investors and others with a consistent basis for comparison across accounting periods.

The regular report is the most accurate measure and comparison of wireless carriers around the world, which is probably why the Canadian industry and its allies don't want the public to see it.

Beta is a measure of the volatility, or systematic risk, of a security or a portfolio, in comparison to the market as a whole.

In particular, the exclusion of certain expenses in calculating adjusted EBITDA can provide a useful measure for period - to - period comparisons of our core business.

For years, Berkshire's book value was Mr. Buffett's preferred measure for comparing Berkshire's performance to the S. & P. 500 and he highlighted the comparison on a table on the first page of the letter.

Responding to a timely question about the growing popularity of NEO in China, and how the functionality of Ethereum measures up in comparison, Buterin emphasized that Ethereum will «be optionally quantum - proof with EIP 86 and Casper because it will support any signature algorithm that the user wants to use.»

In particular, the exclusion of the effect of the Fitbit Force recall, which primarily impacted our results for the fourth quarter of 2013 and the first quarter of 2014, discussed in «Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Fitbit Force Product Recall» and certain expenses in calculating adjusted EBITDA can provide a useful measure for period - to - period comparisons of our business.

The most reliable measures of individual stock valuation we've found are based on formal discounted cash flow considerations, but among publicly - available measures we've evaluated, price / revenue ratios are better correlated with actual subsequent returns than price / earnings ratios (though normalized profit margins and other factors are obviously necessary to make cross-sectional comparisons).

In an attempt to cast light on this issue, my colleagues at Plexus Asset Management have updated a previous multi-year comparison of the price - earnings (PE) ratios of the S&P 500 Index (as a measure of stock valuations) and the forward real returns (considering total returns, i.e. capital movements plus dividends).

You can see our comparison of several key inflation measures, including the two - year «breakeven inflation rate», the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the CPI excluding food and energy, in the chart below.

Movements in equity prices, however, provide only a partial measure of returns; a comparison of total returns requires also that dividends be taken into account.

John Wooden once said that the measure of our life is not how well we did in comparison to others, but rather, how well we did in comparison to our potential.

But as I wrote they are «the more enlightened of the bunch»; a term of comparison, not an absolute measure.

For Christians, one must look to the cross of Christ to take the measure of God's love, and of its worth in comparison to the sufferings of a fallen world.

But in fact the measures of legal development and societal complexity are contemporary, thus making that comparison impossible or at least illegitimate.

Indeed the love command is described by Furnish as a duty independent of feelings, as being measured by comparison not with self - love but with divine love, as unrestricted in nature and scope, and as requiring the whole person including our feelings, and as not able to pick and choose its object.

At the end of the study, the curcumin group had lower levels of three blood markers of inflammation, including C - reactive protein (CRP), along with lower fasting blood sugar and hemoglobin A1c (a measure of longer term blood sugar levels).5 For comparison, the placebo group had higher blood sugar levels and increased inflammation after the eight weeks.

It will be the truest way he can shake the comparisons, of people rarely measuring him without doing so against the basketball stars, past and present, that share his last name.

Comparisons have been made to Victor Oladipo and it's a measure of how deep this class is that Mitchell is thought of as a mid first - rounder.

That is what the Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers did about Coutinho this week, but when you look at the stats comparison on Squawka.com, with Man City's David Silva thrown in for good measure, the Arsenal man is way ahead of Coutinho.

of course no team wants to lose but I can guarantee you that the reaction by the Chelski fans after today's results are nowhere near what would have occurred if we shit the bed on opening day... the difference is they have tasted EPL success on more than one occasion recently, they have won the Champions League and they have done it with 3 different managers in the last 12 years with a similar, if not smaller, wage bill than us... in comparison, we have been experiencing our own personal Groundhog Day with nothing to show for it but a few silvery trinkets that would barely wet the appetite of a world - class club... so it's time for Wenger to stop gloating over our week one escape act and make some substantial moves before this window closes or I fear that things will take a horrible turn when the inevitable happens... living on a knife's edge is no way to go through a full season of football and regardless of what side of the argument you fall on, you could feel high levels of toxicity in the air and that was friggin week one... I would much rather someone tried their best and failed, than took half - measures and hoped for the best

Today, as adults, they earn an average of 25 percent more per year than the subjects whose parents didn't receive home visits; by a variety of measures, including wages, these formerly delayed infants have now caught up with a comparison group of their peers who didn't show any signs of delay in infancy.

One of the things I loved about playcentre is that children are measured on developmental stages, not age stages, so there is never any comparison with another child.

Constant comparison meant that twins are always measured in relation to each other instead of being appreciated for themselves.

As with other neuropsychological testing tools, the value of the SAC in concussion assessment is maximized when individual baseline test data is available because, without such baselines, the athlete's postinjury performance on neuropsychological testing and other concussion assessment measures, such as the SAC, must be interpreted by comparison with a generalized «normal» based on a large population sample.

Information includes type of comparison; child behaviour outcome measures demonstrating a significant difference between comparison groups; numbers of children in each comparison group.

Given the heterogeneity in the choice of outcome measures routinely collected and reported in randomised evaluations of models of maternity care, a core (minimum) data set, such as that by Devane 2007, and a validated measure of maternal quality of life and well being would be useful not only within multi-centre trials and for comparisons between trials, but might also be a significant step in facilitating useful meta - analyses of similar studies.

Meta - analyses help in establishing robust patterns, but studies often use very different measures of both paternal involvement and children's outcomes, making comparisons difficult.

Given the heterogeneity in the choice of outcome measures routinely collected and reported in randomised evaluations of models of maternity care, a core (minimum) dataset, such as that by Devane 2007, and a validated measure of maternal quality of life and wellbeing would be useful not only within multi-centre trials and for comparisons between trials, but might also be a significant step in facilitating useful meta - analyses of similar studies.

«In summary, one may state that scores originally obtained as ipsative measures may legitimately be employed only for purposes of intraindividual comparisons.

In contrast to the incommensurabilist aversion to the comparison of chafing values, of more compelling concern is how clearly we can measure particularly incompatible belief structures up against one another to reveal a reverse ordering of principles.

They then introduced a whole series of measures which weakened the European economy by comparison with those of the Far East and America and so on.»

To give a point of comparison, the debt limit was previously suspended from February 4, 2013 until May 18, 2013, and that resulted in the US being slated to hit the debt ceiling, after extraordinary measures are exhausted, on October 17, 2013.

A generous measure it may be, but the claimant count is not usually used for historical comparisons as the number of people claiming is affected by the changes in the benefit rules over time.