There are many other yields to compare them to, but for purposes of isolating factors having to do with growth, the most useful is to compare equity yields with bond yields, especially government bonds.
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In recent months, two tools have been released that allow families to better compare colleges with respect to return on investment.
The right analogy might be to compare climate with an airplane that keeps on changing its size, shape and weight and has to interact in turn with a constantly changing medium that exhibits far more turbulence than what we are accustomed to.
Facebook, which has 350 million users, keeps its revenues secret, and there are no big publicly-traded companies to compare it with, making it impossible for an outsider to monitor the financial heath of the company.
Naturally, subscribing to this theory puts a decision maker in the crosshairs of the traditional scouting model, one that relies on seeing and physically and mentally testing the player, with results in a scouting report to compare with hundreds of others.
And it marked scenes of celebration to compare with 1990, when Colin Cowperthwaite's brace helped them to a 3-0 win against Leek Town.
DNA, for example, it is useful to compare it with a central database (such as GenBank) of existing sequences to see what it resembles.
For now, the cost burden of reshoring falls upon the private sector, with executives needing to compare upfront costs with operational efficiency, profitability and customer service yield.
We also check in with actor Josh Duhamel, browse Bo Ryan's Wikipedia page and get Coach K to compare Duke with the Yankees.
Mr Bush's officials prefer to compare their effort with the paltry sums the Europeans contribute to the Russian clean-up.
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Regardless of initial ranking, employees gain the ability to compare self-reflection with outside perception to connect the dots and continuously rise to new levels of stardom.
He was notably less willing than she to compare HP to either IBM, with which HP competes in services and servers, and Dell, HP's rival in personal computers.
Right now, McCain doesn't seem to have much to compare with Obama's 50-State Strategy.
The value of EV lies in its ability to compare companies with different capital structures.
It was small, relatively short, and had no control groups on other drug-regimes to compare with.
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Prof Jha says it's important to compare this with other areas of Indian life.
We do have a non-competing health service, two in fact, to compare it with.
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The dollars are the same relative to the effort, but shoppers tend to compare savings with purchase amounts.
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Review the return you filed and your original source documents to compare with the information in the notice.
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Now, you could argue that it's a pretty unambitious benchmark to compare yourself with the UK as a whole.
But there has never been anything to compare with Aberfan, partly I suppose because I was a relatively young man.
They have used their membership of various United Nations bodies to compare notes with indigenous groups from around the world.
West Clwyd AM Darren Millar questioned the panel about differences in way they're undertaking their consultation to compare with Hywel Dda.
Murder is declining in the countries Britain likes to compare itself with.
In many ways, Ed Balls is right - Germany and France are the more natural economies for Britain to compare ourselves with.
Include historical metrics in the model to compare them with your projections.
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Last year, His Eminence tried to compare me with Alexander the Great.
There is no one to compare with him under the high ball and he offers a real attacking threat coming into the line.
Yet, in a way, he pitied those younger people without experience of the camps or the war, to compare with any present hardships.
Pentagon experts are currently looking at a Tajik military airfield, although so far there is nothing to compare with the intense involvement in Uzbekistan.
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