Private companies were valued based on comparison with prevailing price-to-earnings or other financial ratios.
One example is MyRatePlan.com, which focuses primarily on comparison shopping for cell phones.
The program will put a sharp focus on the comparison of various types of fuel.
Each evening is based on a comparison of vintage and recent wines with two selections from America, France, and Italy.
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Based on a comparison of stock prices to per-share earnings and growth rates, he calculates, small caps now are trading at an 11% premium to large caps.
The Nationwide conducts a straightforward monthly year-on-year comparison, although this could be affected by short-term blips.
But whether such information can be standardised enough to be computer-readable for comparison on company websites is questionable.
Utilization rates are a measure of how many rigs are working on contracts in comparison to total fleet size.
Now, thanks to Sandy, Home Depot has a better chance of matching the year-over-year comparison on its comparable store sales.
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This was a valid comparison on December 31, 1998, the date to which BofA Merrill Lynch has retroactively created its new index.
Instead, antitrust agencies around the globe have fixated on helping middlemen comparison-shopping sites such as Nextag and PriceGrabber, most of whom charge retailers for listings.
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It would seem obvious that for consumers, mutual companies should come out ahead, but Cahill goes too far in making such an assumption based on his limited comparison.
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Based solely on a numerical comparison with the enormity of the horror in Europe, the experience of Jews in Arab lands during the war barely deserves mention and the frequent recitation of statistics inevitably invites such judgment.
What the survey shows is how well those European companies that have made it have done, surviving on what in comparison to U.S. startups are if not starvation rations, then a diet of tuna sandwiches and value yogurt.
The demands the media is making on Mulally pale in comparison to those coming from his board as they met last week in Detroit with succession planning on the agenda.
The more reliable three-month on three-month comparison showed prices fell by 1.5% in October.
Another source of income is used cars, where comparison shopping on the Internet is a little tougher.
It is short, in comparison, on the one man bands running out of a shed in the garden.
In comparison, on Oct. 19, 1987 the Dow blew up and lost 22.6%.
You can get comparison info on elementary schools in your city, smartphones and mercury levels in fish, to name a few.
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The Night Trap comparison, on the other hand, is a little different.
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Actually, the difference between the two makes a comparison unfair on Samsung.
This unlikely comparison depends on the fact that all animals (or, at least all those examined so far) share a surprisingly large fraction of their genes.
For one thing, print advertising, even though it is diminished, still pays the bulk of the freight for newsrooms, with web ads paying just pennies on the dollar in comparison.
Electrowetting supposedly provides better brightness and response time than competing reflective display technologies while using essentially the same manufacturing techniques, and according to a handy comparison chart on MobileRead, is just about the best thing ever.
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But if neither have the time nor the inclination to comparison shop on every purchase--and given that the more you spend, the more the rewards pile up--you might as well sign on with one supplier to ease the pain.
Part of the reason that there is a groundswell of populist anger at the economic solutions that suit those "too big to fail" banks is that too many people and businesses who are infinitesimally tiny by comparison are on the verge of failure.
With an estimated 200 million skiers and 70 million snowboarders in the world today, there are plenty of people who would do well to heed this advice and his overall message is that responsible participants have nothing more to fear on the slopes in comparison to other sporting activities.
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