Sentences with phrase «total economic return»

But tying pipe distance to total economic return is sheer misdirection.

Not exact matches

What Ottawa isn't considering, at least not publicly, is the return of economic conditions that would dramatically impact government revenue, not to mention a total financial meltdown that would require emergency stimulus spending (or a political need to meet calls for stimulus).

The performance goals upon which the payment or vesting of any Incentive Award (other than Options and stock appreciation rights) that is intended to qualify as Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on invested

With the S&P 500 within about 8 % of its highest level in history, with historically reliable valuation measures at obscene levels, implying near - zero 10 - 12 year S&P 500 nominal total returns; with an extended period of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions replaced by deterioration in market internals that signal a clear shift toward risk - aversion among investors; with credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in only about 9 % of history.

Likewise, investors might have believed that the extraordinarily elevated market valuations of 1929 and 2000 were «justified» by the recent economic prosperity, but that did nothing to prevent the market collapses that completed those cycles, with over a decade of negative total returns for the S&P 500 in both cases.

Indeed, because the level of interest rates at any point in time is highly correlated with the level of nominal economic growth over the preceding decade, the relationship between starting valuations and actual subsequent S&P 500 nominal total returns is nearly independent of interest rates.

Our focus on identifying a stock's true economic value and our willingness to patiently own it until that value is realized means that the penny - perfect purchase or sale price does not contribute meaningfully to the total return of the stock for our shareholders.

Using daily returns for the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund (VBMFX) and the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund (VTSMX) as proxies for their respective markets over the period 6/20/96 through 6/30/08, along with contemporaneous U.S. economic data, they conclude that:

Using daily returns for the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund (VBMFX) and the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund (VTSMX) as proxies for their respective markets over the period 6/20/96 through 6/30/08, along with contemporaneous U.S. economic data, they conclude that: Keep Reading

Only the largest size groups of conventional producers had positive returns above total economic costs.

An aide to DiNapoli said questions remain regarding the timetable for ams» promised investment, a full accounting of the state's previous investments at the site (some infrastructure has been built by Mohawk Valley EDGE, an economic development authority) and a calculation on the total return on the investment.

Another study, which looked at the aggregate costs and benefits of national service — including both social and fiscal — estimated the social and economic returns to total approximately $ 7.5 billion.

The preschool part showed the strongest economic benefits providing a total return to society of $ 10.83 per dollar invested — equivalent to an 18 percent annual return on program investment.

This is another place where total return blinds us to economic reality.

Simulated index data is based on a combination of performance of widely used total return asset class - specific indexes and subjective judgement taking into account the current economic environment.

However, the interconnectedness of stock markets and financial systems around the world is now so great that, were such a no - return crash to occur, it would probably be accompanied by the total collapse of the whole economic system.

As with any decision a law firm makes when investing its limited resources, the firm should compare the total cost associated with the system against the economic return that the system brings the firm.