Its criteria include: a better than average price-earnings ratio over the past five years, a positive growth rate in earnings per share over the past 12 months, and a positive operating margin over the past 12 months.
We narrowed the list by considering only candidates that received a better than average reliability rating from Consumer Reports, a top safety rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a score of at least four out of five stars from J.
We've crunched some numbers to illustrate how, for those who carry a balance over each month, even a better-than-average rebate can leave you no better off than a low-interest rate card.
Chances are there was a family backing them (if only to get a better-than-average education) or a small-business benefactor in the mix somewhere in the depths of their personal history.
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If you've found yourself even mildly obsessed with style, art or design over the past score, there's a better-than-average chance you've got a Nicholas Callaway book on your coffee table.
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If the market does better--say, 12%, a little better than the average 10-year annual return after previous catastrophic downturns--it will still only show a 20-year return (through December 2019) of 3.38%.
These include low cost index-tracking choices for those who do not think that they can pick a better-than-average investment manager.
With this spirit, local papers have a better-than-average chance of surviving.
Just as everyone thinks himself a better-than-average driver, these results (assuming that they are honest) suggest people are more willing to see sin in others than in themselves.
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Among, say, people from either country who are studying outside their homeland (and have a better-than-average chance of becoming decision-makers), the share of trans-Aegean links would be far higher.
Among funds raised in the ten years to 2001, those that attracted investment by the endowments of universities and not-for-profit foundations did 14 percentage points a year better than the average fund.
Turns out it was filed in the Eastern District of Texas, a hotbed for patent trolls who know that they stand a better-than-average chance of winning simply because of where their issues are being taken up.
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The German club has conceded just 7.6 shots per game a better average than any side in Europe's top five leagues and has allowed only seven goals in 22 Bundesliga games this season, putting it well on pace to beat its record of 21 goals against in a single 34-game campaign.
The concept of DCA suggests that by investing a small amount of money each pay period into specific funds, over time, investors may get a better average price than they would if they just invested a lump sum of money all at once.
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Even retiring veterans, like Carroll, 52, need to move to a place with better-than-average employment opportunities.
With a ground ball rate over 50%, he is not going to provide power, but his peripherals are certainly better than a .218 batting average.
But according to a study by two American economists, women are better investors than men, earning a higher average return on their money.
In terms of performance versus pay, Oklahoma City is a whopping 84% better than the league average.
Both also have career earned-run averages of almost a run per game better than the league average, while tossing more than 200 innings per season.
Sales "are currently up 17 percent quarter on quarter, so we think we'll do a little bit better than the market (average) this year, " said Kevin Wale, GM China chief executive officer.
How is it that colonists in the 1770s, many of whom had little formal schooling, had higher levels of literacy, more expansive vocabularies and a better command and mastery of a wide variety of subjects, than the average student today?
Enlisting the help of seven of the country's leading chefs, steered by the effusive Loyd Grossman, the new NHS menu has spawned an impressive range of quality, appetising food, perhaps not quite fit for a king, but certainly better than the average pub grub.
The money will be made in consumer lending (a much better quality of credit than your average real estate tycoon and with better margins, too) and supplying all those nice consumer things, many of them made in China and imported and distributed through the Carrefours and Wal-Marts of this world.
That suggests an investor who writes index options is getting a better price than one who buys, on average.
Most economists would begin with an obvious conclusion: On average the firms writing these reports are likely to be better than average citizens from a CSR perspective.
But it seems reasonable to assume that those who must live with the consequences of a euro exit are in a better position to weigh the options than the average British newspaper reader.
In that graphic, NPR was slightly better than the average with a ratio approaching 68% men to 23% women (with the rest being statements from organizations and similarly non-gender entities) whereas the overall numbers were closer to 80% men to 15% women.
Today they average a remarkable rate of better than one sale for every two calls during which an offer is made.
Watch out for the Sunday Walking Street, which has better-than-average products and a good dose of provincial culture.
For a start, anyone known to be reviewing a place is going to get much better treatment than the average customer.
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