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In the opinion of the Company's management, the debt - to - capital ratio is useful in an analysis of the Company's financial leverage.

To date, results from several longitudinal studies indicate that e-cigarette use among nonsmoking youth increases the likelihood of future use of conventional cigarettes.5 — 10 Specifically, the pooled odds ratio (OR) in a recent meta - analysis of studies of adolescents and young adults (aged 14 — 30) indicates that those who had ever used e-cigarettes were 3.62 times more likely to report using cigarettes at follow - up compared with those who had not used e - cigarettes.11 This finding was robust and remained significant when adjusting for known risk factors associated with cigarette smoking, including demographic, psychosocial, and behavioral variables such as cigarette susceptibility.

The data in this post about the SaaS Quick Ratio comes from our ongoing benchmarking analysis of hundreds of B2B SaaS companies.

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.

If you then combine the use of such ratios with other research, and possibly technical analysis too, then you will have a real basis for your investment and trading decisions, and your trading profitability will improve.

For a further discussion of the firm's capital ratios, see «Equity Capital» in Part I, Item 2 «Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations» in the firm's Quarterly Report on Form 10 - Q for the period ended June 30, 2011.

The father of value investing and the entire securities analysis industry, legendary investor Benjamin Graham, wrote a considerable amount during his career about the importance of the interest coverage ratio, especially as it pertained to bond investors making bond selections.

Depending on just how deep you want to delve into link analysis, there are tools that will tell you everything from which site's links are oldest, or no - followed, or the ratio of deep links to homepage links, or C Class, or the cache date, or the different inbound links across the engines.

Historically, the analysis that's been done empirically by academics has focused on the countries that have fallen into a restructuring or a default as a result of this ratio that you and I are discussing.

However, we believe that with a combination of various valuation methods, metrics analysis and ratios understanding, we can find a good intrinsic value and make the right buy decisions.

A value stock, on the other hand, refers to shares of a company with solid fundamentals that are priced below those of its peers, based on analysis of price / earnings ratio, yield, and other factors.

This time I selected three of the top silver stocks by their P / E ratio for analysis.

While the fact that better capitalised banks are more able to lend during the recovery phase of a crisis sounds logical to me, I believe this result requires more in - depth analysis: it is likely that regulators in many countries forced banks to recapitalise after past crises or, as it was the case in the US in the post-WW2 era, that banks were also required to comply with a certain type of leverage ratio.

At the end of the day anyone who has attended the workshop takes back home a full fledged knowledge of important concepts like asset allocation, calculation of intrinsic value, important ratios to focus upon while doing fundamental analysis, usage of excel sheet, and above all how to put together a checklist to do smart and intelligent investing.

Hussman's analysis showed that gold miner's perform very well historically when the economy is contracting and the ratio of gold to XAU (Gold and Silver Index) is above 5.

For instance, our analysis of POT suggests that the stock presents us with a 6 × 1 ratio of upside to downside.

At the very least, using the Valuentum Dividend Cushion ™ ratio can help you avoid stocks that are at risk of cutting their dividends in the future, and we are the only investment research firm out there that does this type of in - depth, forward - looking cash - flow analysis for you.

As a supplement to our 16 - page stock reports, our dividend reports assess the safety of a stock's dividend through our Valuentum Dividend Cushion ™ ratio, the potential growth of a firm's dividend by evaluating its capacity and willingness to increase the dividend, the historical track record of the company's dividend performance, and the overall strength of the dividend by putting all of this analysis together.

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Because the PE ratio is a discounted cash - flow model that considers the long - term qualitative dynamics of a particular entity, cash - flow analysis remains the first and most important pillar of our Valuentum Buying Index.

Their analysis involves (1) estimating the factor characteristics of each stock in a broad index; (2) aggregating the characteristics across all stocks in the index; and (3) matching aggregated characteristics to a mimicking portfolio of five indexes representing value, size, quality, momentum and low volatility styles, adjusted for estimated expense ratios.

(S&P 500 P / E Ratio at Troughs: A Detailed Analysis of the Past 80 Years)

Annenberg countered that comic content (such as cartoons) is indeed a highly effective form of conveying serious lessons; that when a new person or agent enters a scene a «single» violent episode becomes «multiple»; that a six - week analysis made by the researchers revealed the same general results as the one - week sample; and that the risk ratio validly takes into account the fear that potential victims (such as young women) have when viewing violent television.8.

For each outcome, we report the number of events, the number of births, the weighted incidence, an unadjusted odds ratio restricted to births included in the adjusted analysis, and an adjusted odds ratio controlling for potential confounders.

Individual growth curve models were developed for multilevel analysis and specifically designed for exploring longitudinal data on individual changes over time.23 Using this approach, we applied the MIXED procedure in SAS (SAS Institute) to account for the random effects of repeated measurements.24 To specify the correct model for our individual growth curves, we compared a series of MIXED models by evaluating the difference in deviance between nested models.23 Both fixed quadratic and cubic MIXED models fit our data well, but we selected the fixed quadratic MIXED model because the addition of a cubic time term was not statistically significant based on a log - likelihood ratio test.

Results of the analyses continue to confirm that all forms of extra support analyzed together showed a decrease in cessation of «any breastfeeding», which includes partial and exclusive breastfeeding (average risk ratio (RR) for stopping any breastfeeding before six months 0.91, 95 % confidence interval (CI) 0.88 to 0.95; moderate - quality evidence, 51 studies) and for stopping breastfeeding before four to six weeks (average RR 0.87, 95 % CI 0.80 to 0.95; moderate - quality evidence, 33 studies).

In further analyses restricted to women without complicating conditions at the start of care in labour, the adjusted odds of adverse perinatal outcomes were higher for births planned at home compared with those planned in obstetric units (adjusted odds ratio 1.59, 95 % confidence interval 1.01 to 2.52).

Excluding type 2 diabetes (because of insufficient data), we conducted a cost analysis for all pediatric diseases for which the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reported risk ratios that favored breastfeeding: necrotizing enterocolitis, otitis media, gastroenteritis, hospitalization for lower respiratory tract infections, atopic dermatitis, sudden infant death syndrome, childhood asthma, childhood leukemia, type 1 diabetes mellitus, and childhood obesity.

We did, however, repeat the analysis including «high - risk» pregnancies, and found that the odds ratio for intended place of birth was very similar (OR 2.1, 95 % CI 1.4 to 3.4; further details can be provided on application to the authors).

However, because PPH is a rare complication, and because the analysis controlled for predictors of previous PPH (eg previous baby weighing > 4500g), it is unlikely that the odds ratio would have been greatly affected had «previous PPH» been included as a covariate.

A separate meta - analysis of 15 studies indicated that ever breastfed compared with never breastfed was associated with a 9 % lower risk for childhood leukemia (odds ratio, 0.91; 95 % CI, 0.80 - 1.04), although the definition of never breastfed differed between studies.

Mean adequacy ratio (MAR) was computed as the mean of percentage daily value provided in all the foods selected each day, averaged per month for 6 nutrients per 1000 kcal of energy.13 These nutrients were included in the MAR because they were contained in the NUTRIKIDS analyses provided by the school district, and they represent nutrients of importance for children and adolescents.

In our subgroup analysis of African American infants, at 12 weeks, African American mothers with peer counselors had odds of providing any breast milk 249 % greater than those for African American mothers without peer counselors (odds ratio, 3.59 [95 % confidence interval, 1.16 - 11.03]; P =.03)(Table 3).

The study had > 99 % power to detect an odds ratio of 2.0 and > 95 % power to detect an odds ratio of 1.5 for most analyses.

We found that: a) lactation stage must be defined biochemically (such as Na: K ratio), not by day of lactation, b) lactation stage influences RNA quality, quantity, and potential immune cell contamination, c) immediate processing and hard, fast centrifugation yield better quality RNA, and d) additional washing of the milk fat layer is not necessary for the analysis of mature milk samples and does not decrease immune cell contamination in colostrum samples.

Numbers of participants in nonobese [BMI (in kg / m2): < 30] and obese (BMI ≥ 30.0) groups, respectively, are as follows: timely OL (□; n = 102 and 34) and delayed OL (▪; n = 49 and 33)[P < 0.0001 within the nonobese BMI group and P = 0.001 within the obese BMI group (chi - square analysis); Breslow - Day test for homogeneity of the odds ratios (P = 0.6267), indicating that there was not a significant difference by BMI group in the association between delayed OL and excess neonatal weight loss].

It is a sophisticated regime that relies on hard analysis not crude ratios topped up by a bit of cash to meet the unexpected.

«From an analysis of revenue growth, donor appetite for budget financing, and other net positives, $ 22 billion of the amount would have to be borrowed and added to the debt stock taking this country's debt to GDP ratio above 100 %,» added IMANI Ghana.

Goran's analysis of beverages made with HFCS, however, showed a fructose to glucose ratio of 60:40 — considerably higher than the equal proportions found in sucrose and challenging the industry's claim that «sugar is sugar.»

Smith used isobolographic analysis of three fixed dose ratio combinations of CBD with each AED in order to rapidly assess the effectiveness of each combination against limbic seizure activity.

Additional evidence comes from analysis of the 129 - Xenon to 130 - Xenon ratio.

In a paper to be published this month Wolfgang Lutz, a demographer at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria, predicts that the ratio of over-65s to 15 - to -65-year-olds in China will increase almost threefold between 2010 and 2035.

Analyses of the bacteria found in household dust can tell researchers about the probable ratio of male and female residents of a home, as well as whether there is a pet such as a dog or cat.

The research applied Multivariate Regression Analysis combined with a Logit Model to the real data to identify statistically significant factors that have influenced voting preference simultaneously as well as the odds ratio in favour of Leave.

The interim analysis found a median progression - free survival rate of 9.7 months with consolidative radiation therapy followed by chemotherapy, versus 3.5 months for maintenance chemotherapy alone (p = 0.01; Hazard Ratio (HR) = 0.304, 95 % CI 0.113 - 0.815).

Analysis of these data in the overall intent to treat population showed an advantage in PFS favouring arm A that did not reach statistical significance; Median PFS was 6.4 months in the FOLFOX plus cetuximab arm A compared to 4.5 months in the FOLFOX arm B (hazard ratio [HR] 0.81; 95 % CI 0.58, 1.12; log - rank test, p = 0.19).

The team based its analysis on ratios of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in ice cores drilled in East Antarctica.

Ancient Athens most likely had a sex ratio between 1.43 and 1.74 (based on a historical analysis) because of rampant female infanticide and neglect.

The analysis of a distinctive feature (i.e., the wing feature) between 8000 - 8400 Å (in the vicinity of this Lyman - alpha line near GRB) contributed to the estimate of the ratio of neutral hydrogen relative to the entire amount of hydrogen.

The lifetime analysis suggested that first - line biologic treatment would result in 0.15 additional lifetime QALYs, but this gain would cost an incremental $ 77,290, leading to an incremental cost - effectiveness ratio of $ 521,520 per QALY per patient, a figure far above what is considered acceptable to the U.S. health care system.