That is, they've done better than average over 10-year, five-year, three-year and one-year periods.
And if the animal performs no better than average, its value as an asset will plummet.
Alt-fuel vehicles have better than average depreciation rates, at least through the first year or two of ownership.
Single-sex schools flourish in the private sector, and students who attend them do better than average in tests.
What makes you confident that you will do better than average while the next fellow will do worse?
One theme is that professional money managers rarely do better than average investors at predicting the direction of financial markets, he says.
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Analysts following the stock also write that Cabot's financial health is better than average compared with other small oil and gas producers.
And these companies appear to be achieving better than average results.
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After all, by definition, those using Apple hardware are those willing to, insistent upon doing so in fact, pay premium prices for better than average products.
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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.
Even in lean times, managers took better than average salaries.
Indeed, better than average wages for China as a whole.
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The second-ranked airline in terms of overall quality was low-cost airline Jet Blue, which posted better than average performance in terms of on-time arrivals, mishandled bags and customer complaints.
Workers lucky enough to belong to a big-company union that negotiated its annual wage contracts along with those of workers for other big firms in the same industry tended to do better than average.
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.
So these new data from Burrill are entirely all consistent with pharma corporate VC playing an important role in the ecosystem, and that they seem to get involved in good companies that possess better than average probabilities of success.
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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.
Although this occupation has had less wage growth over the last three years than physical therapy assistant (No. 14 on the hot jobs list), its employment prospects are still expected to be better than average, especially in acute, rehabilitation and orthopedic care.
Since Forbes began tracking wins-per-player costs in 2001, the Flyers have posted a nine year average score of 86, meaning the team has delivered 14% fewer victories per dollar spent on players relative to the average hockey team, and only one season (2009-10) did the Flyers score better than average (118).
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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.
Of course, some funds of hedge funds have done much better than the average.
The result was better than the average 22.84 billion rupees estimate in a Dow Jones Newswires poll of 14 analysts.
Their pupils come from the best-off homes, but they turn out 15-year-olds who do no better than the average child across the OECD.
Translation: They were almost three times better than an average NL club, the best mark ever for a team that failed to go all the way.
Strangely, if presented with one number at a time, at one digit per second, Lu's recall is no better than the average person's, Ercisson and colleagues found.
But the best 20% of firms in India performed better than the average American firm, and the best 10% of Indian firms outscored 75% of American firms.
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First, index fund investors have the highest probabilities of meeting their investment objectives because the returns of index funds are better than the average active funds in every investment category.
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%.
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.
But those who have developed the skills necessary for the best blue-collar jobs, largely mechanics, installers and equipment operators, find they're doing better than the average American, no matter the color of the collar.
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