In comparing drug companies (or software or chip or computer companies), you can look not only at the ratios of price-to- earnings but also at the ratio of price-to-innovation-adjusted earnings.
Indeed, a casual look at the ratio of corporate profits to net assets since the early 1950s shows two peaks: in the mid-1960s and late-1990s, both periods of robust growth.
The picture is altered a bit when you look at the ratio of government debt to GDP, which is forecast by the European Commission at 89% for the UK next year, 74% for Spain and 121% for Italy.
It shows the sex ratio at birth, whereas the census shows the ratio for children aged 0-6 (census figures for the sex ratio at birth have not been published).
Fear of losing more talent has kept the brokers' compensation ratio at 60%, and the firm's overall ratio at an uncomfortably high 54%, well above Goldman's.
Then he will look at the Sharpe ratio to see which funds are taking on outsize risk to get those returns.
As for the first question of discerning market trends, Sullivan looks at the internals like the ratio of new highs to new lows, advance-decline ratios, and the ability of the market to hold support and break through resistance.
Diabetics who are infected with TB become ill with the disease at three times the ratio of the general population because their immune systems are compromised, said Dr. Seaworth, who is also a professor of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center-Tyler.
Brad Coffey, head of corporate development for the company, likens the formula to a machine: Put a dollar in at the top and the LTV:CAC ratio will tell you roughly how many dollars come out at the bottom.
Japan's Financial Services Agency said in May the bad loan ratio at the country's 11 biggest banks had fallen from 5.18% a year ago to just 2.93% today.
The exception is nursery classes within independent schools, where the ratio is at the discretion of the school.
The lowest percentage of workless households was in 2006, at the height of the global financial bubble, when the ratio stood at 17.3%.
The bank had a tier 1 capital ratio of 11.3% at the end of the second quarter, while its core tier 1 ratio, which excludes hybrid capital instruments, stood at 7.5%.
One week ago today, when the metals were at record highs, the ratio was 32.
Because the performance ratio looks at the whole, rather than the sum of the parts, this indicator can take into consideration individual variables that are ignored by current metrics.
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In other words, if the Basel lll leverage ratio remains at 3%, then that is the ratio which will apply to British banks.
The figures are not strictly comparable, because sample surveys show the sex ratio at birth, whereas the census gives it among infants up to the age of six.
It is also useful to look at the inventory turnover ratio.
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The 2005 "mini-census" reported that the sex ratio at birth, expressed as the number of boys per 100 girls, was 119--when the global average was somewhere between 103 to 106.
Not least of the factors making for dissension among the Indonesian islands has been the ratio at which rice, in which Java is usually self-sufficient, exchanges for the products of the normally rice-deficient outer islands.
The sex ratio of 15-year-olds in 2005 was not far from the sex ratio at birth in 1990.
Second, the ratio between the gross incomes of those at the top to the average will increase even while the ratio of net income stays the same.
The other way of looking at it is to turn the ratio upside down, and to consider earnings divided by price.
In order to value a stock, the first statistic many investors look at is the price to earnings ratio.
The China Banking Regulatory Commission announced that the NPL ratio for all banks at the end of September was 0.9%.
Finally, U.S. housing is recovering with a house price-to-income ratio at the bottom of its 40-year range.
And by looking at the difference in the ratio of isotopes it was concluded that Mars lost 99.99 percent of its atmosphere.
While average pay levels at banks fit within the ratio, star performers can receive multiples of salary of 10 times or more.
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