Sentences with phrase «rates over a historical period»

When the percentage is compared with similar companies within an industry, investors can assess those with higher income growth rates over a historical period, and gain a better idea of how profitable a company could be over time.

Not exact matches

Finally, if we assume a sustained explosion in productivity growth to 2.8 % annually, joining the highest quintile of historical U.S. productivity growth rates for any 8 - year period, and assuming an unemployment rate of just 4 % in 2024, the result would still be real U.S. GDP growth averaging just 3.2 % annually over the next 8 years.

Spreads between corporate bond yields and swap rates and the premia on credit default swaps have fallen slightly over the period, and are very low by historical standards (Graph 44).

Either use the asset's historical annual rate of return over a 50 year time period or a risk free rate plus a reasonable premium.

After testing a variety of withdrawal rates using historical rates of return, Bengen found that 4 % was the highest rate that held up over a period of at least 30 years.

Historical Volatility: The speed or rate of change in an asset's price movement over a period of time.

It should be noted that although COFI generally follows trends in market rates, it can move in an opposite direction over the near term (one of these periods is marked on the historical graph above).

The charge - off rate estimate is based on historical charge - off rates by loan status over a 9 - month period.

In looking at the rate of change in warming I found what of which I was somewhat aware previously but still a little surprised to find the warming slow down over the periods just before and after the join year of 2005 where the Historical part of the RCP scenarios meets the scenario part of the series.

Experts estimate the return from dividends on investments adds about 2 percent to the total return, meaning if the historical rate of return was 8 percent, an option that does not include returns from dividends may return 6 percent on average over the same given time period.