Sentences with phrase «than the historical average of»

This is significantly higher than the historical average of 2.77 %.

He said the good news is that the economy is in no danger of a recession; however, this year will likely mark nine straight years of subpar growth of less than the historical average of 3 percent.»

Not exact matches

In April, new - home sales made up about 11.9 percent of all home sales, which is a little more than half of the historical average of 23.6 percent.»

Of course, in recent years, stock prices have grown much faster than earnings and dividends, driving the P / E far above its historical average and the dividend yield (D / P) far below its historical average.

World growth will remain low on average but negative in the UK and Europe; price inflation will remain sufficiently subdued for a while longer so as to impose no constraint on monetary expansion; central banks will sustain a regime of negative real interest rates and rapid monetary expansion; the risk of a eurozone collapse is off the table for now; finally, stock markets should continue to perform better than expected, even though the four - year old cyclical bull market is long by historical standards.

Over the last four quarters, that's come down to about 62 per cent, close to the historical average, on the back of business spending on investment and inventories that's already much stronger than usual and will probably slow.

The favorable market performance associated with many historical economic expansions is fully accounted for by 1) favorable post-recession valuations, with the S&P 500 averaging less than 9 times prior peak earnings at the recession low, expanding to just over 11 times peak earnings in the first year of the bull market, and 2) favorable trend uniformity, which typically emerges almost immediately in the form of a powerful breadth thrust off of a bear market low, and is confirmed within a few weeks by much broader trend uniformity.

As of January 2013, intermediate - term real interest rates are about 4 % less than their historical average.

While there's a great deal of variation across individual market cycles, that's roughly the historical average for a 5.25 year market cycle: a 135 % gain, a 30 % loss, and a 65 % full - cycle return (about 10 % compounded annually, with the full - cycle return coming in at less than half of the bull market gain).

This leaves roughly 1.4 % of historical long - term returns which can be attributed to past expansion in the Price / Earnings multiple (i.e. over the past 50 years, prices have grown somewhat faster than the 5.7 % average rate of earnings growth).

As I noted last week, the average historical outcome of similar combinations has been negative, largely because the deterioration in economic pressures tends to trump technical action even when it has been more favorable than it is at present.

Assume also that by 2010, the price / peak earnings multiple simply touches its historical average of 14 (forget that the typical multiple has been less than 10 when earnings have been at the top of that peak - to - peak growth channel - let's just assume the multiple touches 14).

This is interesting because it's different than what we've seen from the majority of hedgies who as of late are only 25 % net long, well below the historical average as hedge funds have been selling equities.

The balance of opinion on investment receded closer to its historical average, indicating that plans to increase spending over the next 12 months are somewhat less widespread than in the previous two surveys (Chart 3).

The ultimate defensive aim of the team is to concede less goals across an entire season, with historical averages correlating a «goals conceded» tally of less than thirty to achieve Champion's League qualification in the English Premier League and to challenge for the title.

DePreSys's predictions for 10 years on from the date of the historical data were on average only 19 per cent more or less than the actual numbers (Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038 / ngeo1004).

«The number of magnitude 3 - plus earthquakes decreased in 2016, but there were still more than 600 earthquakes, far above the historical average,» said Pollyea, who specializes in groundwater modeling and simulation.

August was 0.9 °F warmer than the 20th century average for the CONUS and ranked in the warmest third of the historical record.

Nearly all of Eurasia, Africa, and the remainder of South America were much warmer than average, or within the top 10 percent of their historical records for their regions, according to the Land & Ocean Temperature Percentiles map above.

Since then, Ngoring Lake, the largest of the lakes in the Reserve, has seen its water levels rising and is now larger than its historical average.

From this perspective, grains probably never accounted for more than 1 - 3 % of our historical calorie intake... and as you know from one of my recent articles, currently our modern processed diet that the average person eats consists of 67 % of total calories from grains such as corn, soy, and wheat and their derivatives... now THAT»S a shocking revelation in why our entire food supply is backwards, and how that affects your waistline!

This estimate is conservative in terms of considering today's labor market, as average unemployment duration today is much higher than its historical average.

According to Brian, not only is the stock's forward P / E ratio of 15.0 much lower than its historical norm of 19.1, but its current dividend yield of 2 % is nearly double the company's 22 - year average yield of 1.2 %.

If the interest rates on your other debt - car or student loan or mortgage - is higher than what you could earn by saving or investing (consider that the average annual inflation - adjusted historical return of the U.S. stock market is just over 6 %), you'd be wise to pay that down first too.

To overcome this discrepancy, the author extends the average relation of the NTM P / E being lower than the TTM P / E by 24 %, as observed from 1976 to 2003, to the entire 140 - year historical period.

It's important to note that if you are retired during a period when the stock market returns less than its historical average, and you withdraw 8 % a year from your retirement savings as Ramsey recommends, you can deplete your retirement funds to the point that it deals a severe blow to your standard of living.

As I pointed out with the historical figures tallied by the Bank Of Canada, the average mortgage rate is usually higher than the prime rate.

Since 1996, the US CAPE ratio has been above its long - term simple average (16.6) 96 % of the time, and above 24, roughly one standard deviation above its historical norm, more than two - thirds of the time.

For instance, the blue dot on the value factor scatterplot suggests that prior to March 2016 the valuation level of 0.14 — meaning the value portfolio was 14 % as expensive as the growth portfolio measured by price - to - book ratio, and lower than the historical norm of 21 % relative valuation — would have delivered an average annualized alpha of 8.1 % over the next five years.

With 7 % upside on top of a yield that's higher than its recent historical average, this dividend growth stock deserves a good look here.

The projected 10 - year rate of return (calculated using the current price and the projected price in 10 years based on the sustainable growth rate, projected book value per share and earnings per share, and historical average price - earnings ratio) is greater than or equal to 15 %

Professor Robert Shiller's P / E10, which uses the average of ten years of earnings, is a better predictor of Historical Surviving Withdrawal Rates than Tobin's Q.

That puts the current rates at less than 50 % of their historical average.

This leaves roughly 1.4 % of historical long - term returns which can be attributed to past expansion in the Price / Earnings multiple (i.e. over the past 50 years, prices have grown somewhat faster than the 5.7 % average rate of earnings growth).

You can estimate how much you'll have saved up by using a retirement calculator; it's best to assume no more than a 7 % average annual return, which is the historical average of the stock market (including inflation).

Both are less than half the rate's historical average of 4.7 percent.

A quick way to tell if a stock is worthy of further research is to determine if it is trading for less than its historical average price - to - earnings ratio.

A thirty year mortgage is a great thing at these rates (I wish I could get a 50 year mortgage), especially if inflation returns to its historical averages of 3 — 4 % or higher, and if you can invest the difference between the monthly payments for the 15 and 30 year mortgage and earn more than 3.88 % on that money you will be much better off than if you'd gotten a 15 year mortgage.

Since the current payout ratios are slightly higher than the company's historical average, investors should probably expect annual dividend growth that's slightly less than EPS and FCF growth, along the lines of 6 % to 8 % a year.

Investment grade corporate bonds possess an average yield spread of 2.2 % to Treasuries, which is above the historical average of 1.5 % and notably greater than MBS spreads.

But this is in a period that the Bureau has predicted is likely, based on statistical analysis of historical data and current sea surface conditions, to be warmer than the historical average (see here.

«Of the 17 responses, all suggest that the extent will remain lower than the historical average (i.e., mean 1979 — 2000 September values) of 7.0 million square kilometerOf the 17 responses, all suggest that the extent will remain lower than the historical average (i.e., mean 1979 — 2000 September values) of 7.0 million square kilometerof 7.0 million square kilometers.

Thus if one plots all the minima of the different historical measurements, that gives a better impression of the real «background» CO2 level than the averages: see The same for ocean data and coastal data: all are around the ice core level.

Under a high emissions scenario, Blaine County can expect a 40 % decline in the number of days at or below freezing by late century, falling from a historical annual average of more than 200 days to about 120.

Uncertainties of estimated trends in global - and regional - average sea - surface temperature due to bias adjustments since the Second World War are found to be larger than uncertainties arising from the choice of analysis technique, indicating that this is an important source of uncertainty in analyses of historical sea - surface temperatures.

Today, despite being the historical timber - basket of the U.S., Oregon now credits high - tech manufacturing with producing 10 per cent of its economic output — more than eight times the national average.

org, US reductions need to be much greater than average reduction levels required of the entire world as a matter of equity because the United States emissions are among the world's highest in terms of per capita and historical emissions and there is precious little atmospheric space remaining for additional ghg emissions if the world is serious about avoiding dangerous climate change.

However, this does represent a lower rate of increase than the historical average — China's average annual growth rate for coal consumption from 2000 to 2013 was 8.8 percent.

[2] The Historical simulations have an average temperature anomaly of 0.84 °C for 1996 — 2005 relative to 1850, whereas HadCRUT4v4 shows an increase of 0.73 °C from 1850 — 1859 to 1996 — 2005, and Figure 7 of Miller et al. 2014 shows consistently greater warming for GISS - E2 - R than per GISTEMP since 2000.

More than half of respondents say lending is just as stringent as a year ago, while 23 percent say it is more stringent; 20 percent say it is less stringent but not near historical averages.