Sentences with phrase «well on a relative basis»

The S&P 500 is down nearly 10.5 percent over this stretch, making the performance of the gold mining ETFs pretty good on a relative basis.

Financials also performed very well on a relative basis while Healthcare and Industrials were the largest detractors from performance.

Not exact matches

«Canada's middle class is actually doing much better relative to past decades based on a host of indicators,» Charles Lammam and Hugh MacIntyre, two from Fraser's stable of experts, wrote in an op - ed published in the Ottawa Citizen on March 17.

M&A will never be 100 % successful and we learn from every deal we do, and so not to pick on any specific deal, but I've learned, based on relative success of deals we've done in the past, is making sure the key leaders at the company share a vision with the founder, making sure the strategy drives the M&A, as opposed to the M&A driving the strategy, and making sure we have good support mechanisms for these companies after they come in.

We look at venture capital investments by state, as well as small - business lending on a relative basis.

There is no doubt that, based on pure, cold, logical data, stocks are the single best long - term performing asset class for disciplined investors who are not swayed by emotion, focus on earnings and dividends, and never pay too much for a stock, often as measured on a conservative beginning earnings yield relative to the Treasury bond yield basis.

Materials also screened well on the scorecard, based on fundamentals and relative strength.

These are often companies with more stable earnings streams that may hold up better, on a relative basis, during market downturns.

In short, investments in churn reduction (retention) can yield a far better return on investment than generating new users on a relative basis.

This is based on its high beta, which is a good indicator for how much the stock moves relative to the rest of the market.

Based on BlackRock research, stocks with a history of dividend growth have tended to outperform in a rising rate environment and may hold up well relative to other segments of the stock market more susceptible to higher rates.

To use a modern example, a good manager will hire based on experience, skill, reliability, and so on, not because the applicants are friends or relatives.

«Brexit is an opportunity for us on a relative basis because of that in - market position which basically lowers your costs and provides a much better natural hedge,» Mr Haddock said.

This article was about the best attack Arsenal can muster based on the relative strengths of the players available to Arsenal this season as, last season, a certain poverty of attack robbed Arsenal the bragging rights of title holders.

For me, on a relative basis, Ramsey's best position is in the center.

In relative terms, however, we are performing better away (as we did last year); league tables based solely on either home or away games would have us 15th and 6th respectively compared to 7th and 4th respectively over the course of 2015/16.

Maybe a trusted friend, a relative, or an older father you know has some good insights, based on what worked for him.

The effect of these kinds of supports on home visitors has not been well studied, but some research on similar interventions indicates implementation of evidence - based practices with fidelity monitoring and supportive consultation predicts lower rates of staff turnover, as well as lower levels of staff emotional exhaustion relative to services as usual.29, 30,31 Moreover, a supportive organizational climate has been associated with more positive attitudes toward adoption of evidence - based programs.32

If Scotland were to choose to go down the independence route, not only would there be more than enough oil income to make every single Scot better off by considerably more than # 500 a year, but also for its new government to close down the submarine bases in the Clyde without having to submit to any form of blackmail on currency issues, to increase the gap in health and education funding relative to the rest of the UK, to keep the ship yards open, and a great deal more besides.

The areas to be remapped will be based on their relative dangers to navigation, effects from the storm, and discussions with state and local officials as well as the maritime industry.

But geneticists chose Arabidopsis as their model organism based on its relative genetic simplicity, as well as its short generation time.

Previous laboratory findings as well as estimates of fitness based on genetic clustering of strains in the population suggested a lower relative fitness for MDRTB compared to drug - susceptible tuberculosis, but few studies have directly measured the incidence of second cases of tuberculosis among contacts of both MDRTB and drug - susceptible tuberculosis.

Steve: And we also have the cover piece, speaking of fun articles that are based on serious things, [which] is about our closest relatives to the human beings to, well, they are human beings too, well to Homo sapiens — the Neandertals and the author Kate Wong, who is a staff editor here at Scientific American and a real expert on this stuff is with us.

The current work, led by Busch and including researchers from Austria's Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (where Busch was formerly based) focused on the well - studied weed Arabidopsis thaliana, a relative of cabbage and mustard.

In other words, the estrogen drops, as well as the progesterone drops, while they are within normal ranges on an absolute basis, the end results is a relative increase of estrogen in the body.

Just to expand, eating a well balanced WFPB diet (which means including all the plant food groups each day — grains, veggies, fruit, legumes, and nuts / seeds — no need to get too fussy about the relative amounts of each) and consuming an appropriate amount of food (based on your caloric needs) is GUARANTEED to provide all the protein you body needs.

I think that the reason you feel like it is a hard effort is because your aerobic base is very well developed on its own, but also very well developed relative to your total muscle power.

Based on the best - selling prize - winning novel by Meg Rosoff, «How I Live Now» is the latest film from director Kevin Macdonald («Touching The Void,» «The Last King Of Scotland,»), and toplines Saoirse Ronan as an American teen, Daisy, who comes to stay with distant relatives in a time of strife.

Guskey: The better examples are basing reports on student learning criteria (criterion - referenced), rather than simply reporting a child's relative standing among classmates (norm - referenced).

Schools that did well in the past also tended to do well, on a relative basis, in 2015.

The Senate's potential new formula for funding Kansas schools is based on spending at 41 districts where — according to a recent statistical analysis — students are doing well academically relative to local poverty rates.

The AMG handling pack is a relative bargain - # 530, and a box well worth ticking on the basis of our experience.

But it's also a relative bargain, besting every single aforementioned vehicle on base price, although the Macan S is just $ 1,100 more expensive.

Although the Fusion Hybrid had a modest month, it did well relative to year - ago as well as on a year - to - date basis.

Based on BlackRock research, stocks with a history of dividend growth have tended to outperform in a rising rate environment and may hold up well relative to other segments of the stock market more susceptible to higher rates.

In this way, you can figure out the annualized rate of return based on dying in any given year and then try to assess if the return looks good relative to what you think your life expectancy might be.

Your performance relative to the market also looks good, based on the limited information you have shared.

This is actually a bit less than the average retail mutual fund fee in Canada, so the fees are slightly better than average on a relative basis.

The team ranks the stocks in this universe based on a series of growth factors, such as the change in consensus earnings estimates over time, the company's history of meeting earnings targets, earnings quality and improvements on return on equity, as well as a series of value criteria, such as price - to - earnings ratio and free cash flow relative to enterprise value.

The A.M. Best rating is a forward - looking and objective opinion regarding an insurer's relative creditworthiness based on a comprehensive analysis of balance sheet strength, operating performance, and company profile.

I anticipated that favorites like iShares S&P 100 (OEF) and Vanguard Mega-Cap Growth (MGK) would fare better than the Russell 2000 based on relative valuation, macro-economic weakness and latter - stage bull market allocation shifts.

Robert Shiller's original CAPE ratio sought to find the best times to buy or sell stocks as a whole asset class based on their share price relative to -LSB-...]

Seems a better balance of coverage based on the relative size of the various countries» economies.

While the success of the diversified and rebalanced stock and bond portfolio relative to stocks on their own is not a revelation, many investors might be surprised at just how well this portfolio has done over the past 18 years on both an absolute and risk adjusted basis.

That's why it's better to look at growth in relative terms, on a per - share basis, which accounts for the increase in shares.

By monitoring price movements of all preferred shares on an ongoing basis, the Lysander - Slater funds aim to purchase oversold securities that are of good credit, good structure, and offer cheap relative value.

Market timing results from 2007 to 2018 are based on relative strength model holding the best performing asset.

In short, investments in churn reduction (retention) can yield a far better return on investment than generating new users on a relative basis.

The relative strength momentum model invests in the best performing assets in the model based on each asset's past return.

But it's all relative: Hauser & Wirth (which likes publishing a slew of results at fairs) reported the sale of a new mixed media work on canvas by LA - based artist Mark Bradford's for $ 2 million, as well as The Opaque (1947), an oil by Arshile Gorky, shown publicly for the first time since 1965.