Private companies were valued based on comparison with prevailing price-to-earnings or other financial ratios.
Each evening is based on a comparison of vintage and recent wines with two selections from America, France, and Italy.
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Based on a comparison of stock prices to per-share earnings and growth rates, he calculates, small caps now are trading at an 11% premium to large caps.
It would seem obvious that for consumers, mutual companies should come out ahead, but Cahill goes too far in making such an assumption based on his limited comparison.
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Their comparison, it turns out, was based on a nearby Mediterranean-style home with many nooks and crannies that a simple rectangle doesn't have.
But that data needs treating with caution. uSwitch, a comparison site that compiled the figures, says the data is based on sales plus deal popularity.
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For an apples-to-apples comparison of network programs of differing lengths, the series are ranked based on ad revenue per average 30 minutes.
See Figure 1 for a comparison of both variants of Case-Shiller and their corresponding analogues based on the Zillow Home Value Index.
To create a basis for comparison, MetroPCS is assumed to be included for the full 2013 financial year based on a pro forma calculation.
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Most country funds, like other index funds, are market-weighted, meaning their exposure to different stocks is based on the total value of the stocks' shares outstanding in comparison with the market capitalization of other shares in that market.
Tancer is even working with researchers at Stanford to explore a new consumer confidence estimate based on search terms like "gas prices" and visits to thrifty comparison-shopping sites, which have climbed in response to this year's economic pain.
By comparison, of those who immigrate to the United States each year, two-thirds are based on family ties and only 13 percent are based on talent, merit or work.
By comparison, TotalFinaElf trades at 8.6 times debt-adjusted cash flow and Exxon trades at 12, based on yesterday's closing prices.
In one study published recently in Biology Letters, chimps and bonobos presented with a food-based ultimatum game would accept any food reward on offer - no matter how meagre their share was in comparison to their partner's.
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