The WhatsApp Business app also has Messaging Statistics to help users review
simple metrics like number of messages read.
Think bigger than
simple metrics like page views or site visits.
Rather than use complex composite metrics which are difficult to justify and explain, we should focus on
simple metrics like GDP per - capita.
Michael Smith was actively trying to get people to underrate MFCAF and overrate the parent, especially on
simple metrics like book value.
Not exact matches
The strategy behind value investing is
simple: buy stocks with a low price relative to their current financial
metrics like earnings, EBITDA or cash flow.
But one thing to keep in mind when using
simple valuation
metrics like P / B is another Buffett comment on banks:
Answer 2: A variety of value
metrics that display phenomenal performances can be used, but in Quantitative Value, we rigorously tested all formulas to determine what worked best, and a lot of
simple models
like P / E actually perform very well.
Whether we examine the
simple fundamental
metrics like the price - to - earnings (PE) ratio, the price - to - book value (PB) ratio, and the price - to - cashflow (PCF) ratio, the dividend yield or a compound model of all excluding the dividend yield, all outperform.
Novy - Marx's The Other Side of Value paper showed that a
simple quality
metric, gross profits - to - assets, has roughly as much power predicting the relative performance of different stocks as tried - and - true value measures
like book - to - price.
On the
simpler end of the spectrum, there are
metrics like downloads, sessions, and DAUs.
Activities
like teaching students how to do research and provision of intensive research services often give more compelling reasons to fund libraries than those
simple metrics.