To turn the ratio around: If you want to displace a unit of petroleum energy, you have to burn four-fifths of a unit in fossil fuels.
Nearly 4% of the stock is sold short, with the short ratio hovering around 11.
Even the new proposed high-speed line in Britain has been shown to yield a benefit-cost ratio of around two-to-one.
By contrast, the ratio is around ten in Brazil, China, Mexico and Poland.
Every Web site, with the exception of Prosper, mandates that users meet certain criteria: credit scores of approximately 640 and a debt-to-equity ratio of around 30%.
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So far the second bailout package - given the most optimistic interpretation - will reduce the debt to GDP ratio from around 160% to only 144% by 2020.
Early Tuesday afternoon Eastern time, the ratio was around 43.7-to-1, and analysts queried by Kitco News envision a move to the 45-50 area in the coming weeks.
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It is no surprise that Microsoft initiated its dividend when its growth slowed to around 13%, and currently sports a 25% trailing payout ratio with EPS growth of around 10.5%.
The stock has been a favorite target of some bears as the short-interest ratio was recently around 12.
The company expects to see its operating ratio to be around the high 60s by 2015, while average annual EPS growth should average between 10% and 15% off of their 2013 base.
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The ratio is currently around 41.5.
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We expect this ratio to stay at around 105% for the remainder of 2010.
That ratio blew out to around 20 in 2009 and again in 2010, a severe break with historical trends.
Even in cultures without access to mass media, the optimum waist-to-hip ratio for women is around 0.7, which corresponds most closely to an hourglass shape, and is linked to fertility.
The Nikkei 225 price-to-earnings ratio now stands at about 18.7 times, higher than about 16 times in the U.S. and 12 times in Europe, but analysts say that ratio will fall to around 16 times if earnings figures come in line with forecasts.
Over at the American Enteprise Institute, John Makin and Daniel Hanson suggest not to worry too much about the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio, then turn around and warn against letting the sequester take effect because, ironically, it would raise the debt-to-GDP ratio by slowing the economy.
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More than 10, 000 members of the Pakistan military secure the area around Kotkai, officials said, a ratio of one soldier for every five civilians.
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This places the price-to-earnings ratio in even loftier territory at around 100.
At The New Yorker, the ratio is low as well: around eight out of more than 50 cartoonists are women.
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From 1790 to 1910, the sex ratio in the U.S. hovered around 104 (adult males per 100 adult females).
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Positive sentiment around retailers themselves also maintained its overall three to one ratio.
If the bet pans out, EMLC investors will enjoy capital gains from the currency appreciation as well as what appears to be a very attractive yield, presently around 6% after the 0.49% expense ratio is subtracted.
In simplified terms, if a fund holds stocks yielding an average of 3% and the fund has a 1% expense ratio, the yield to fund investors will be around 2%.
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That ratio has collapsed from 17 early last year to around 9--meaning that money sits in a sock drawer or a bank account for about twice as long as it once did before being put to use.
Australia has gone two decades without a serious downturn, leading most to believe that house prices move in only one direction, despite historical data which clearly indicate that the ratio of home prices to income has always fluctuated around a stagnant long term average.
In Britain shares in the FTSE 100 index trade on an historic price-earnings ratio of less than ten and yield 5%, around three-quarters of a percentage point more than government bonds.
To put some figures around the issue, the ratings agency notes a debt to EBITDA ratio of 23, which has swelled from just 2 times earnings a year ago, and interest coverage down to 0.6 times from 3.7 times.
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In the second year the ratio was a staggering 12 to one in favour of those around the edge.
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