While it's pertinent to realize that you worked at A place for B
measure of time on a C position, what is truly essential is the thing that you did and what were the outcomes (objectives).
Not exact matches
In plain English,
measuring the return
of a fund without any trading action over
time, versus the return
of a fund based
on investor flows into and out
of a fund over
time.
Zuckerberg says that «by making these changes, I expect the
time people spend
on Facebook and some
measures of engagement will go down.»
On the other hand, first -
time advertisers are at risk for spending a lot
of precious capital for exposure they are unprepared to
measure and leverage.
Linton suggests experimenting by sending e-mails at varying
times of day and
measuring open rates
on multiple devices.
But TV ratings and digital broadcasts are
measured in totally different ways, and when Next Level Media broke the numbers apart, it concluded that at least four
times as many people watched an NBA Finals game
on average as tuned in for League
of Legends finals.
Instead
of focusing
on how marketers can create great content for social media, this class more focuses
on how exactly to
measure your social investments in terms
of time, cost and opportunities.
«We expect investors will ignore the EPS slowdown given one -
time hurricane effects and the focus
on benefits from corporate tax reform,» a group
of the firm's strategists led by David Kostin wrote in a client report, noting that optimism around tax
measures was crucial in the S&P 500's ascent to new records last week.
Stranger Things led the social - media pack out
of 65 different brands, which ran 104 spots in 49 ad breaks
on Fox for just under 49.9 minutes
of dedicated ad
time, according to iSpot.tv, which
measures activity from more than 10 million smart TVs and tracks responses to TV ads
on social and digital platforms.
And when you take
measures to set yourself up for an effective delegation process, you're not only giving yourself
time to focus
on your most vital business activities, but you're alleviating some
of the pressure
of always doing everything yourself.
When you
measure the success
of your MVP, focusing
on generic vanity metrics (things like
time on site, conversion rate, revenue per user, etc.) will get you nowhere.
«It's now the second-most expensive market
of all
time: We're still,
on most
measures — not all — but
on most
measures we're still well below the highs that we made in March
of 2000, we're certainly above the secular highs
of the 1965 - 66.
With today's near - maniacal focus
on key metrics, dashboards, and KPIs, perhaps it's
time to
measure and track the good old - fashioned virtue
of doing what we say.
On the other hand, a later study that
measured time spent looking at images
of men kissing found no evidence that some homophobic men are gay at a subconscious level - in fact, some
of the homophobic men seemed to have an implicit aversion to such images.
To better
measure the success
of the companies
on Inc.'s 2017 Founders 10 list, EY studied median benchmarks for the biotechnology, life sciences, pharmaceutical, and technology sectors at the
time of their IPOs and one, two, and three years later.
It also leads the pack according to Gartner's
measure of its strategic vision — based
on the services it plans to provide over
time — and its ability to actually deliver those services.
Sometimes success isn't
measured just by the amount
of money raised, but instead by the smiles and responses when a celebrity takes the
time to take a selfie, drop in or just acknowledge you
on social media.
«While overall price growth slowed, gains in core price
measures remained firm, leaving the Bank
of Canada
on track to lift interest rates two more
times this year,» Alicia Macdonald, the Conference Board
of Canada's principal economist, said in a statement.
The shipping company cuts its profit forecast, blaming the cost
of extra
measures it took to ensure deliveries were
on time during the 2014 holiday season, and hinted it would start charging retailers...
According to The Wall Street Journal, desktop Internet use had its highest active month over the past three years back in March
of 2015 with 567 billion total minutes
of measured Web activity in the U.S. Not only have we not seen that figure go up over the past year or so, but the amount
of time people are spending browsing the Web
on their mobile devices is trouncing desktops: more than one trillion minutes in March
of this year.
The National Institutes
of Health also studied outdoor exercise, comparing it to indoor exercise, finding, according to The New York
Times, that subjects scored «higher
on measures of vitality, enthusiasm, pleasure and self - esteem and lower
on tension, depression and fatigue after they walked outside.»
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).
As it is a non-cash charge, however, and highly dependent
on our share price at the
time of equity award grants, we believe that it is useful for investors and analysts to see certain financial
measures excluding the impact
of these charges in order to obtain a clearer picture
of our operating performance.
The
time frame over which pre-retirement earnings are
measured will have a substantial impact
on the size
of the denominator.
Fixed - rate loans provide a
measure of certainty, although your monthly payments
on a federal loan can still go up over
time if you choose an income - driven repayment plan.
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.
«MOFCOM will follow the progress closely and will be prepared to take necessary
measures at any
time to safeguard the legitimate interests
of Chinese enterprises,» the agency said in a statement
on its website.
The President - elect bashed Big Pharma, and failed to provide clarity
on the details or
timing of policies like infrastructure spending, tax reform and other
measures dear to traders» hearts.
The CBOE Market Volatility Index ($ VIX) is a contrarian index that essentially
measures the level
of fear in the market at any given
time (which is based
on market volatility).
The P / E for the S&P 500,
on the other hand, is based off
of GAAP earnings that include these one -
time costs, and the sector and industry P / E's appear to be based the non-GAAP
measures of each company in the sector or industry.
However, a simple price - to - earnings (P / E) ratio, whether based
on a snapshot in
time or a smoothed
measure of earnings, can be more useful, providing some indication
of the possible distribution
of future returns, our analysis shows.
Under the Bonus Plan, our compensation committee, in its sole discretion, determines the performance goals applicable to awards, which goals may include, without limitation: attainment
of research and development milestones, sales bookings, business divestitures and acquisitions, cash flow, cash position, earnings (which may include any calculation
of earnings, including but not limited to earnings before interest and taxes, earnings before taxes, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and net earnings), earnings per share, net income, net profit, net sales, operating cash flow, operating expenses, operating income, operating margin, overhead or other expense reduction, product defect
measures, product release timelines, productivity, profit, return
on assets, return
on capital, return
on equity, return
on investment, return
on sales, revenue, revenue growth, sales results, sales growth, stock price,
time to market, total stockholder return, working capital, and individual objectives such as MBOs, peer reviews, or other subjective or objective criteria.
When valuations exceeded even 12
times normalized earnings (
on our most comprehensive
measure discussed above), seemingly «favorable» market action was followed by profound losses averaging -69.8 %
on an annualized basis (generally reflecting a few weeks
of vertical losses until enough damage was done to kick the market action
measures negative).
Moderate interest rates were associated with a whole range
of subsequent returns over the following decade, and we know that those outcomes were 90 % correlated with the level
of valuations at the beginning
of those periods (
on reliable
measures such as market cap / GDP, price / revenue, Tobin's Q, the margin - adjusted Shiller P / E, and others we've presented over
time - see Ockham's Razor and the Market Cycle).
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.
LONDON (Reuters)- The world's top 30 banks face a higher minimum requirement for their broadest
measure of capital, global regulators said
on Monday as they flagged a two - tier leverage ratio regime for the first
time.
A Federal Reserve - sponsored group that has been working
on an alternative is slated Aug. 1 to discuss the
timing of the release
of the
measure.
Our experience is that Facebook referral traffic is the most engaged
of any referral traffic including organic search, as
measured by
time on site and pages / visit.
It's also important that traders don't
measure profits based
on percentages or pips gained or lost
on each trade or based
on the percentage account performance over xyz period
of time.
On some
measures, and in some products, Australian markets are smaller than others in the Asian region, but nonetheless, at the height
of the Asian and Russian crises, overseas banks chose to operate in Australia to cover positions established in Asian markets because liquidity in those markets was inadequate at the
time.
The decision goes
on to list some
of the specific components that are to be included in the restoration plan, including the details
of restoration techniques to be carried out, the identification
of specific sites, and quantitative and qualitative
measures to assure that the goal
of offsetting to a total area 2
times greater than that disturbed is met (para 133).
On Twitter, the New York
Times» Nathaniel Popper said that the firms apparently argued for a «safe harbor,» essentially a
measure of legal immunity while the fledgling blockchain and cryptocurrency industry tests its wings.
Ultimately, AJ suggests that engagement — as
measured by
time on site — is a
measure of satisfaction and may be part
of AuthorRank (what Google actually refers to as Agent Rank in its patent filings).
-- You can convince your VCs
of reviewing
on a monthly base only those metrics that will
measure progress more accurately at this stage, instead
of all the financial data which is not relevant — You can set up the right financial systems / software to help
measure basic financial information, and allow your VC access to additional financial figures every quarter or by request If none
of these work: — You can try convincing your VC
of using the right metrics as well as the financial ones, and to be
measured by a mix
of both — You can hire a seasoned part -
time CFO who can at least free you
of the hurdle
of putting the numbers together
Same goes for social recruiting: how would you
measure through web analytics the influence
of Employee Advocacy
on shortening
time or lowering costs
of recruiting?
The amount
of time people spend
on your page, known as «dwell
time», is almost certainly one
of the factors that Google
measures.
They employ three distinct methods to
measure long - run abnormal returns: (1) calendar -
time three - factor (market, size, book - to - market ratio) portfolio alpha; (2) three - factor alpha in event
time; and, (3) returns in excess
of those for control stocks matched
on size, book - to - market ratio and six - month past return.
He
measures daily aggregate unscheduled firm - specific news sentiment as an average
of scores calculated by the RavenPack news analysis tool for articles with headlines specifying S&P 500 stocks published for the first
time that day
on the Dow Jones news wire and in the Wall Street Journal.
(Peter Surda): you can not design a synthetic commodity whose supply mirrors macroeconomic aggregates, because these aggregate variables are exogenous to the network (whereas the hashing parameter
of networks like Bitcoin only depends
on time and the number
of blocks in the blockchain, which from a perspective
of the network are endogenous), so they can not be unambigiously
measured.
These will have their main impact in the September quarter but it will be some
time before the CPI, or underlying inflation
measures based
on the CPI, will provide a clear reading
of annual inflation unaffected by the tax changes.