Sentences with phrase «measure of growth over»

Compound Annual Growth Rate The compound annual growth rate is a useful measure of growth over multiple time periods.

The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is a useful measure of growth over multiple time periods.

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With over 90 % of the labour force in the informal economy, it is very difficult to assess the impact of policy actions and measure true growth.

Given the low unemployment rate, anecdotal evidence from a variety of companies, and alternative measures such as the Atlanta Fed wage tracker showing stronger growth, wage growth may not be back at precrisis levels, but the trend over the past year shows wages are certainly headed in the right direction.

Because PE is a measure of earnings over time, you can think of it as representing the number of years required to pay back a stock's purchase price (ignoring inflation, earnings growth and the time value of money).

Even as the politicos argued over job growth and a stagnate economy, entrepreneurs kept plugging along, cashing checks and finding themselves with a measure of security heretofore unheard of.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

After accounting for the impacts of measures and adjustments, the Sales Tax revenue base is projected to grow at an average annual rate of 4.3 per cent over the forecast period, roughly consistent with the average annual growth in nominal consumption of 4.0 per cent over this period.

CAP assumes annual wage growth matches the mean effect of experience and nonexperience on real wages measured in the NLSY data assuming full - time, full - year employment, and reports the cumulative difference between the no - leave earnings profile and the leave earnings profile over time.

There are a multitude of reasons as to why this occurs but it's a powerful enough force that many investors have done quite well for themselves over an investing lifetime by focusing on dividend stocks, specifically one of two strategies - dividend growth, which focuses on acquiring a diversified portfolio of companies that have raised their dividends at rates considerably above average and high dividend yield, which focuses on stocks that offer significantly above - average dividend yields as measured by the dividend rate compared to the stock market price.

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).

This measure may slip for a time as we drop off some of the high quarterly growth rates from our calculations, but we think growth will remain robust over the next 12 months.

Even if the growth rates of nominal GDP and U.S. corporate revenues (including foreign revenues) over the coming 20 years match their 4 % growth rate of the past 20 years, and even if the most reliable valuation measures merely touch their historical norms 20 years from today, the S&P 500 Index two decades from now will trade more than 20 % lower than where it trades today.

That is why we have zero growth in multifactor productivity (the standard measure of the commercialization of innovation) over the past three decades, as reported by Statistics Canada.

Year - over year growth in real GDP, real gross domestic income, durable goods orders, real retail sales, industrial production and other measures are all down to levels typically observed at the beginning of recessions.

Previous analysis illustrated that inflation compensation has returned as reasonable measure of inflation expectations over a 10 year period while both the economy's potential growth and the changing size of the Fed's balance sheet influence the real yield.

Domestic demand has been held back by weak consumption, which fell by 2.6 per cent over the year to the December quarter in response to restrictive measures introduced in 2002, aimed at slowing the previously very strong rates of growth in consumer credit.

Over 1999/2000, the ABS treatment of some Olympic - related expenditure is expected to boost the level of public authority stocks, and hence measured GDP growth.

Based on other measures of economic activity there have almost certainly been 12 - month periods over the past 10 years when China's economy shrank in real terms, but during these periods China's government still reported growth of around 7 %.

However, measured labour productivity growth has improved over the past few years across a broader range of industries, following a period of quite weak growth (Graph 3).

All Ethereum addresses must hold a balance over at least 0.1 ETH as of block 5099720 and rank among the top community members as measured by «Points» (signups + telegram growth) of DAX.

The annual figure represents a clear acceleration from a figure of 3.9 per cent over the year to November 1996, and follows a period when this measure of aggregate wages growth had been fairly steady at around 4 per cent.

Official wage data also show ongoing strength in public - sector wage growth and a significant rise in wage growth in education: the WPI measure of public - sector wage growth increased by 4.2 per cent over the year to December, almost 1 percentage point higher than the equivalent private - sector wage series.

From a high base, created by rapid growth in 2014, rewards Crowdfunding grew over the last year in excess of 25 % — 27 % as measured by amount raised — with participation (the numbers of pledges) increasing significantly (12 %) while the success rate fell by 2 % as publicity attracted those less prepared for the process.

China's growth over the same period was 6.9 %, unchanged from the first three months of the year, with the property sector a notable area of strength, as house prices continued to rise despite measures by the Chinese government to cool the country's housing market.

The part that is left over — that is, the part of economic growth that can not be explained by the accumulation of capital and labour inputs — is what economists call multifactor productivity (MFP), an index that is widely interpreted as a measure of technical progress.

Jones said the increase in wages was «nowhere near the level of revenue growth» and this «reflects both the extent of [the Premier League's] financial advantage over other leagues and the impact of domestic and European cost control measures».

To monitor physical development, the doctor will weigh and measure your child at regular checkups, then plot the results on a standard growth chart to follow over time and compare with that of other kids the same age and gender.

Over the past two years, when the economy was totally stagnant, and when our economy has needed a quick and fast - acting shot in the arm, we have advocated a temporary VAT cut — alongside infrastructure spending, action on youth unemployment and targeted tax measures for business as part of our five point plan for growth.

Over the period 1980 to 2012, unemployment rose from just 6.4 % to 27.4 % in spite of consistent GDP growth rate averaging more than 7.5 % and by 2016, 33.6 % (using NBS old measure); Human Development Index (HDI) has risen only modestly between 1990 (0.411) and 2014 (0.514); and average life expectancy in spite of our enormous resources remains stuck at 52.9 years in 2015 while the equivalent figure in the developed world averages over 70 yeOver the period 1980 to 2012, unemployment rose from just 6.4 % to 27.4 % in spite of consistent GDP growth rate averaging more than 7.5 % and by 2016, 33.6 % (using NBS old measure); Human Development Index (HDI) has risen only modestly between 1990 (0.411) and 2014 (0.514); and average life expectancy in spite of our enormous resources remains stuck at 52.9 years in 2015 while the equivalent figure in the developed world averages over 70 yeover 70 years.

However, ministers will hope that they will deflect concerns that the legislative programme does not go far enough to boost economic growth or job creation, and controversy over some specific measures such as reform of the House of Lords.

While the final agreement on both of these measures is an improvement over the original Executive Budget proposals, they are not consistent with a strategy to promote economic growth and the creation of good paying jobs.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

The findings are the result of a huge and challenging field effort: over a three - year period, local students and technicians spent several weeks every month at each site to measure each tree's woody growth rate and the number of small roots that had grown.

Over 10 years the scientists measured the amount of new growth (productivity) generated by all species in each plot, and the variability of that productivity (stability) from year to year.

These studies had actually tracked in real time the changes in the kinds of trees present (species diversity), the density of trees, and how well the trees were growing (by measuring each tree's diameter and from that forest's growth over time).

EGAT and the institute claim that the package of measures which has now been introduced has the potential to cut growth in the electricity supply by a quarter over the next decade.

Over a period of nine months, the team monitored cell function and growth by measuring levels of liver - specific proteins and genes.

Specifically, the researchers measured how roots «waved» (how the root tip wandered through a small circle over the course of a 24 - hour period) and «skewed» (began growing at an angle when it touched a surface) every 6 hours during their first 15 days of growth.

To find out, his team used high - precision 3D scanning technology to measure the architecture of young plants over time and quantify their growth in ways that could be analyzed mathematically.

Abstract: A key goal of the Stage IV dark energy experiments Euclid, LSST and WFIRST is to measure the growth of structure with cosmic time from weak lensing analysis over large regions of the sky.

Weak lensing cosmology will be challenging: in addition to highly accurate galaxy shape measurements, statistically robust and accurate photometric redshift (photo - z) estimates for billions of faint galaxies will... ▽ More A key goal of the Stage IV dark energy experiments Euclid, LSST and WFIRST is to measure the growth of structure with cosmic time from weak lensing analysis over large regions of the sky.

He measured his total testosterone, free testosterone, as well human growth hormone and noticed increases after ingesting these two essential oils over the course of 8 weeks.

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiplMeasures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiplmeasures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiplmeasures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

Moreover, the assessments, at least for now, don't measure a child's academic growth over time, or enable us to compare our students» growth with that of similar cohorts elsewhere.

An alternative way of defining and measuring success at school would be in terms of the progress or growth that students make over the course of a year, regardless of their starting point.

When schools test on more than one occasion they can measure the progress — or growth — of students over time.

Measuring student growth has been made somewhat easier by recent advances in the tracking of student performance on standardized tests over time.

Performance measures based on the growth in student achievement over time, which are only possible with annual testing, provide a fairer, more accurate picture of schools» contribution to student learning.

That is, we compare students with the same demographic characteristics, the same test scores in the current year and in a previous year, the same responses to the surveys for other social - emotional measures collected by the district, and within the same school and grade, to see whether students who look the same on all of these measures but have a stronger growth mindset learn more over the course of the following year.