Sentences with phrase «useful as metrics»

Some are useful as metrics (literally to answer the question of how much global warming do we have).

Not exact matches

To be useful as a key metric, it must be capable to identify long - term profit growth.

Value investors and non-value investors alike have long considered the price earnings ratio, which is also known as the p / e ratio for short, a useful metric for evaluating the relative attractiveness of a company's stock price compared to the current earnings of a firm.

As described above, we anticipate Starbucks will cease using our payment processing services in the future and believe that providing Adjusted EBITDA metrics that exclude the impact of our agreement with Starbucks is useful to investors.

As described above, we anticipate that Starbucks will transition to another payment processor and will cease using our payment processing services in the future, and we believe that providing Adjusted Revenue metrics that exclude the impact of our agreement with Starbucks is useful to investors.

While a number of simple measures of valuation have also been useful over the years, even metrics such as price - to - peak earnings have been skewed by the unusual profit margins we observed at the 2007 peak, which were about 50 % above the historical norm - reflecting the combination of booming and highly leveraged financial sector profits as well as wide margins in cyclical and commodity - oriented industries.

As a comparative metric, price per flowing barrel is typically more useful when comparing similar types of oil from similar types of fields.

As for the cup to metric conversion, I hope you will find this chart to be useful: http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipe/master-weight-chart.html.

Modern citation metrics have been around since the 1960s, but before the advent of Internet - based citation databases, they weren't nearly as useful as they are today.

Within this framework, birthweight becomes a useful metric to track because of its link to short - term outcomes, such as one - year mortality rates, as well as long - term outcomes such as educational attainment and earnings, McCoy said.

Small - world metrics can characterize the functional organization of the brain in AD, and our findings further suggest that these network measures may be useful as an imaging - based biomarker to distinguish AD from healthy aging.

That last metric is, as always, most useful when discussing the week's limited releases, which can never compete with wide release films opening on thousands of screens in terms of sheer weekend gross.

Slides can also be printed directly from the ppt (full page slides) as posters for your working wall - there is a useful one on how prefixes can help you identify one metric measure in relation to another - milli - centi - deci - etc..

Pause to first understand factors such as your audience, the company's overall objectives, and useful metrics — then, map the training program out accordingly.

Many performance cars focus their efforts so sharply on a particular metric that it serves as a detriment to the overall enjoyment of the car — an unyielding stiff suspension might be useful on certain track surfaces but it's invariably unpleasant on public roads, and a small chassis is great for lap times but less so when you need to go to Costco.

This ensures that librarians are able to compare usage statistics from different vendors; derive useful metrics such as cost - per - use; make better - informed purchasing decisions; and plan infrastructure more effectively.

This suggests comparing today's valuation metrics to past levels may not be as useful a guide to future returns as in previous cycles.

That may sound odd coming from me, given my history of defending YOC as a useful metric.

Still when it comes to dividend safety, higher dividends are more likely to be cut so we actually include this metric as negative, which seems counter intuitive, but has proven to be a useful indicator many times.

It seems to me counterintuitive that book value should be useful as a value metric.

But using net margin as a metric for stock screening has been shown to not be useful, while using price / sales HAS predictive value.

After creating a real estate proforma, our real estate analysis software will automatically calculate useful financial metrics such as IRR, NPV, cash on cash return, gross rent multiplier, debt service coverage, breakeven occupancy, and more.

There are pros & cons to debate for all of the above, and there's no reason to pick just one from the welter of valuation metrics / ratios / techniques available... In fact, while it's more demanding, I'd argue that assessing a variety of valuation approaches and results is far more useful to you as an investor.

The framework of assessment they have described to us includes important concerns such as opportunity costs, supporting the animal advocacy movement, and alignment with Open Cages» overall strategy.132 Their assessment process also involves asking important questions related to measuring success and failure, such as how they plan to evaluate the program, how long they plan to pilot it, and whether they already have data indicating that they should rethink their strategy.133 Metrics that they use to help evaluate specific programs include the number of restaurants that agree to provide vegan meals in response to their restaurant outreach, as well as the amount and overall sentiment of right - wing press discussion of their legal initiatives.134, 135 These metrics provide useful information, but we think an organization prioritizing among many different interventions could benefit from the use of metrics that are more directly related to their ultimate goals, rough estimates though they may be.

I hate to portray scores as a meaningful metric, but they're useful to illustrate a point: anything short of amazing for Final Fantasy XV is going to be viewed as a disappointment, but I hold on to my hope.

GWP is not a sensible metric to look at whatsoever for a useful comparison either, as some «time integrated forcing» says nothing of use about the evolution of climate.

For instance, working in anomalies is not as useful for metrics that are bounded, like rainfall.

This is a simple metric that is useful when selling solar, as many customers want to know how quickly the large upfront investment will «pay for itself.»

While a global temperature metric for the near - surface tropospheric temperatures is awkward in that it does not account for changes in local climates, it is useful from the most important and broad perspective... as one more metric to indicate total energy flow in and out of the Earth system.

Nonetheless, they are still highly useful as global metrics as they provide aggregated assessments at the national level, which is the most meaningful for international policy negotiations.

Despite the further noise expended there, not least by Montford in his «Jesus paper» nonsense, the NAS described the metric as «not in itself a useful indication of merit (Page 93).»

As for the publication metric, it is a useful tool for discussing and debating science, but my spouse and numerous friends in the academic world have left me with the impression that it is also very useful for maintaining positions, advancing towards tenure and gaining funding.

It is certainly useful to look at the total heat content anomaly (as best as it can be estimated), but the difficulties in assembling such a metric and extending it back in time more than a few decades preclude it from supplanting the surface temperatures in this respect.»

When a continuing series of peak hottest years occurs every four or five years, each peak a little hotter than the last, then there is an obvious temptation to view that particular metric as being a more useful indicator of the validity of the AR5 climate models than would be the central trend of the observations.

Perhaps as a matter of triage they could be useful, but such a use assumes we're happy with the underlying success metrics, and I strongly suspect this use case is not the one most often sought by consumers of «crime prediction.»

So the question arises as to whether open rates are still a useful metric for measuring email marketing success when open rates are falling for technological reasons rather than due to any change in subscriber behavior.

We agree with the argument of Joshua Baer that open rates remain useful as a short term diagnostic metric.

Not only does this metric provide insight as to the efficiency of each attorney within the legal function, but it also provides a useful comparison against which to measure outside counsel costs and hours spent per matter.

He notes that the «rater's comments» section on evaluations is especially useful, as it often yields specific metrics and quotable testimonials about performance.