The average 2012-model deal, for instance, added 1.2 turns of leverage, to 3.8x, versus 1.7 turns, to 4.4x, in 2011.
In cyclical sectors like steel, coal, copper, or even aerospace and oil I can model average earning power over a full cycle or even use a discount table on assets in the ground.
At the same time, you can expect average revenue for an A Model store to be lower than that for a traditional restaurant.
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Actual times and their relative improvements vary by model, with an average boot and shutdown improvement of up to 57%.
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Jim Collins ' OTC Insight model portfolios gained an average of 9.8% last month, after getting whacked hard last year--down 39.8%, according to the Hulbert Financial Digest.
What product models should be collapsed together and treated as a single model for purposes of calculating average prices?
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They then added in meteorological data from 56 local weather stations, matched to the dates and locations of interest, and used another model to derive values for average emissions.
Jim Collins of OTC Insight gained 93% for his subscribers in 2003, and his model portfolios have returned an average of 16.9% annually since May 1989, beating the Wilshire 5000 by more than 6% a year.
Collins' OTC insight model portfolios are up, on average, 101.29%.
The new model does much better, with an average error of 43%.
But the federal government demands that carmakers achieve the equivalent of 35.5 mpg, on average, across their entire lineup by the 2016 model year.
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The 18th Party Congress in late 2012 came up with a new plan to double average income by 2020 by changing the economic growth model and income distribution system.
My model looks for firms with 10-year average ROEs of at least 15%, and 10-year ROTCs of at least 12%.
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When the effects are calculated in a standard climate model, the result is a reduction in average temperature of 0.00005oC (one twenty-thousandth of a degree Celsius, or one ten-thousandth of a degree Fahrenheit).
"The unfortunate thing is we've invested on average about 430 to 440 hours of professional development around our model, " McClellan says.
The CAPE model can be seen to use a long-term average ratio is calculated using market data back to 1880.
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Retailers also continue to experience a higher average probability of default, based on the Sageworks probability of default model, a predictive statistical model for the credit analysis of small or privately held companies.
The most recent edition of The Hulbert Financial Digest reports that the six model portfolios in David Fried's Buyback Letter gained an average of 38% in 2003.
It has made negative economic earnings (meaning its return on invested capital has been lower than its weighted average cost of capital) every year going back to 1998 when my model begins.
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Dr Webb's model shows that, over a 200-year period, average predator populations during hypothetical outbreaks of 14- and 15-year cicadas would be up to 2% higher than during outbreaks of 13- and 17-year cicadas.
But what helped tip the scales was that government researchers put more countries into their land use model (140 instead of 60), which reduced the average penalty and made grain-based biofuels look a lot prettier.
For example, using data on searches for trucks and SUVs to predict the monthly sales of motor vehicles reduces the average error by up to 18% compared with the predictions from a model that did not incorporate the search data.
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There are enough of these wacky strategies out there that some hard-boiled cynics (for example, me) have made a habit of pointing out some of the more ludicrous examples, like relating national economic growth to average penis size, and stock market returns to an over-fit model using Butter Production in Bangladesh.
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Minivans appeared the safest based on the IIHS study, with a death rate of just 25 per million registered vehicles in that category compared with an average 48 driver deaths per million registered vehicles in 2006 through 2009 across all model types with the model years 2005 to 2008.
Under the previous model of condensed repayment cycles, the loans had very little impact on the average incomes of the poor.
The correlation coefficient between the average mTTV and average finish position is -0.86, and with the 44 samples in the model that means there is an infinitesimally small chance the two are not correlated.
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Following Jim Collins' OTC Insight model portfolios since 1988 would have given you a return of more than 20% per year on average.
With the addition of these new features, we expect the average pricing of the Adobe Creative Suite to continue to increase in the future, which is included in our model.
Following Jim Collins' OTC Insight model portfolios since 1988 would have given you a return of more than 20% per year on average--and 101% this year as of Nov. 1.
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