Sentences with phrase «measure of profitability»

Since the financial crisis, Morgan Stanley's return on equity, a key measure of profitability for financial firms, has bounced around in the single digits.

Each company is ranked by value (determined across a wide range of metrics including measures of dividends, cash flow, earnings, sales and assets) and quality (based on measures of profitability, stability and financial strength).

The Comptroller also estimates that profits for the broker / dealer operations of New York Stock Exchange member firms, the traditional measure of profitability for the securities industry, did not exceed $ 13.5 billion in 2011, which would be less than half of the $ 27.6 billion earned in 2010.

Return on Assets (ROA) is a fundamental measure of profitability based on how much net income is generated by a company's assets.

In the second quarter adjusted EBITDA, a broad measure of profitability, is expected to come in at $ 97 - $ 102 million, well below expectations for $ 122.5 million.

Atlas today pays monthly bonuses whenever a month's EBITDA, the company's preferred measure of profitability, exceeds a certain level.

Figure 2 compares Skechers to a number of other shoe / apparel companies in the «Athleisure» segment across measures of profitability, growth, and valuation.

For real estate companies, the standard measure of profitability is called FFO (funds from operations).

The rationale for using gross profitability, rather than any other measure of profitability like earnings or EBIT, is simple.

For example, in the profitability category, only the gross - profits - to - assets ratio (proposed by Novy — Marx) has a statistically significant positive return.5 Two out of five measures of profitability produced negative, albeit statistically insignificant, returns.

-LSB-...] At the heart of this paradox is a doctrine of finance employing measures of profitability that guide capitalists away from investments that can create growth.»

At not - for - profit and public hospitals, median operating cash - flow margins, a key measure of profitability, dropped to 8.1 percent in 2017.»

We create a Global Blend Rank by ranking our global universe of over 15,000 companies in terms of both their Value (across range of metrics based on dividends, earnings, cash flow, assets and sales) and Quality (based on measures of profitability, stability and financial strength).

The company said that inventory management crimped its quarterly gross margin, a measure of profitability, to 44.2 % in the quarter, trailing projections of 45.2 %.

For the first quarter, the company's earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) margin, a measure of profitability, was 28 percent, the best in 10 quarters.

As a measure of profitability, investors will want to see that number improve if the efficiency gains of going cloud are to mean anything in terms of improved margins.

This project is generating a «phenomenal» recycle ratio — a measure of profitability in energy companies — of four times; typically a project like this needs a recycle ratio of 1.5 times to cover its cost of capital.

Return on equity: a measure of profitability that calculates how many dollars of profit a company generates with each dollar of shareholders» equity.

Net interest income, a key measure of profitability, rose nearly $ 500 million from a year earlier to $ 12.48 billion, but missed expectations of $ 13.14 billion projected by FactSet.

Last month, Fortune released its list of the top 50 businesspeople of the year, according to their measures of profitability, growth, shareholder return, and subjective measures of leadership and strategic initiatives.

On June 6, chief financial officer Karen Hoguet announced that they expect gross margins (a measure of profitability) for 2017 to be lower than originally anticipated.

that they expect gross margins (a measure of profitability) for 2017 to be lower than originally anticipated.

In an update ahead of its interim results in August, the general insurer said that «significantly higher than expected claims activity» during the first five months of the year is expected to cause that division to report a first half combined operating ratio, a key measure of profitability, of around 110 per cent.

Return on equity (ROE), which is a measure of profitability, is good at 26 %.

So this is a measure of profitability.

An Internal Rate of Return (IRR) is a measure of the profitability of an investment.

Return on equity (ROE), which is a measure of profitability, fell after the Covidien acquisition, but it has been recovering for the past 3 years as the expansion has been absorbed.

Quality is assessed using measures of profitability, stability and financial strength, as well as specialised balance sheet measures for financial companies.

All stock selection is focused on two key fundamental drivers of long - run equity returns: stock valuations and business quality (as defined by measures of Profitability, Stability and Financial Strength).

Combined ratio, also called «the combined ratio after policyholder dividends ratio,» is a measure of profitability used by an insurance company to gauge how well it is performing in its daily operations.