Discusses how to interpret and compare ratios, the ideal figures that firms should be looking for, and also the downside of relying exclusively on
ratio analysis when making strategic decisions.
The limitations of financial statements and
ratio analysis when assessing business performance.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
The authors do inform readers that
when studies are excluded from the
analysis that include births attended by uncertified or non-nurse midwives that the odds
ratio for neonatal death between home and hospital births is no longer statistically significant (Wax, 2010).
But
when Curiosity's Sample
Analysis at Mars experiment (SAM) vaporised Martian soil, it found a
ratio five times higher: one deuterium for every 1284 hydrogens.
A prespecified biomarker
analysis found that patients with pSTAT3 - positive tumors had significantly improved overall survival
when treated with napabucasin compared with placebo (median, 5.1 vs 3.0 months; hazard
ratio, 0.41; 95 % CI, 0.23 — 0.73; P =.0025).
Though most practitioners would argue that little harm is done to the student who receives an intervention that was not absolutely necessary, a recent meta -
analysis of research on reading interventions for students in grades K — 3 indicates that moderate to large gains in reading achievement were achieved
when teacher - to - student
ratios were no more than 1:5, and most interventions used groupings of 1:1 or 1:3 (Scammacca, Vaughn, Roberts, Wanzek & Torgesen, 2007).
we have to take decision at the end of 6 months
when risk reward
ratio as per our
analysis say it can not give more than 20 % annualized return from there onward and on the other hand some other cheap stock are waiting for us... Even if one stock which we just sold after earlier will become multi baggar does not mean law of probability say us to hold it..
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.
P / E
ratio analysis (both absolute and relative valuation) is not a silver bullet
when it comes to stock picking.
Profitability, gearing, liquidity / solvency and operational efficiency are analysed using accounting
ratio analysis, and there are six key
ratios which are particularly useful
when deciding whether to invest in a company.
Qualitative
analysis can help an investor figure out which data points they should focus on for specific companies and industries, and can help generate good contrarian investing opportunities
when a good company is temporarily clouded by poor financial
ratios and performance.
This variation can create confusion for students
when the topics of
ratio and financial statement
analysis are presented.
When you're combing through financial statements be sure to use
ratio analysis.
The only departure in my
analysis was
when I looked at TOT's debt service
ratio — i.e. adj interest expense / adj EBITA — I used the full adj EBITA figure.
Regression
analyses confirmed that the income - to - needs
ratio was significantly associated with caregivers» education (path A1; ranges across all regions: P <.001 in all models), predicted caregiving support / hostility assessed 1 year after baseline controlling for caregivers» education (path A2, P <.001), and predicted children's experience of stressful life events between baseline and time of scan
when covarying for caregivers» education and supportive / hostile parenting (path A3, P <.001 in all models).
When primary analyses were stratified by SES, odds ratios for excessive media exposure at 2 years (> 2 hours per day) appeared slightly stronger in lower SES families (aOR 1.23 [95 % CI 1.04 — 1.47]-RRB- than in high SES families (1.03 [0.80 — 1.32]-RRB-, when using the 9 - month ITSC predictor (P for interaction.
When primary
analyses were stratified by SES, odds
ratios for excessive media exposure at 2 years (> 2 hours per day) appeared slightly stronger in lower SES families (aOR 1.23 [95 % CI 1.04 — 1.47]-RRB- than in high SES families (1.03 [0.80 — 1.32]-RRB-,
when using the 9 - month ITSC predictor (P for interaction.
when using the 9 - month ITSC predictor (P for interaction.33).
Preliminary
analyses of the
ratio data collected for the study show that
when ALL classrooms in child care settings are better than the minimum standard, children are safer.
Analysis of the Nurse Family Partnership, making use of further updated cost data (Olds et al., 2002) reported a benefit to cost
ratio of 2.88 to 1
when modelling benefits to child school leaving age, with major benefits due to crime avoided (Aos et al., 2004).