That is, if you do at least 392 loads of laundry a year, live in one of 18 states where electricity costs are at or above the national average of 7.8 cents a kilowatt-hour and if your opportunity cost--the return you'd get by investing in something other than a more expensive washer--is 6% or less.
Scooterman's prices aim to beat the cost of a return taxi ride - one to get home after a night drinking and a second to pick up your car the following day.
But he got zero in four areas -- return on equity, cost efficiency, brand management and compliance.
ETFs were originally created as low-cost index funds designed to generate the return of a market.
Under the scheme, directors would have received nil-cost share options if the board met annual return targets over the next three years.
Facing growing competition and shorter-term performance pressures from shareholders, managers resorted to waves of restructuring, personnel reductions, and relocation to lower-cost regions, while leveraging balance sheets to return capital to investors.
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But if Ms Rousseff has her way, it seems, subsequent meetings will start to bring down the cost of borrowing money in Brazil - and reduce the return on investments in the country.
By putting such low-cost assets on the books, Global Marine has generated average return on capital of 29.5% a year over the past five years, first among the Forbes Energy Extractors.
But that will cost big money and any such return would have put me closer to -or even over- the insurance cap.
DaimlerChrysler, conceived in 1998, ranks 14th from bottom, with an average annual return of -11%, the mirror image of its cost of equity.
This is because the cost of borrowing to the tax-payer is just another way of saying the expected return to the investor.
If a would-be doctor had to pay the full cost of Canadian medical training, the return on a career south of the border would fall to 15%.
Already, as the post-war baby-boomers reach their 50s, Japan's lifetime-employers are carrying the cost of paying their senior workers over the odds in return for all the wages they forwent two or three decades ago.
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Although HS2 seems to have a positive cost-benefit ratio, there are other projects, chiefly in roadbuilding, that would provide a better return.
Li plans to return Volvo to profitability by expanding Volvo sales in China, adding a low-cost Chinese manufacturing plant and getting more production out of its existing European factories.
There are many who think that strengthening the value of China's currency won't mean American jobs lost to China in the past decade return to US shores - the jobs will simply go to the next low-cost country like Vietnam or India.
Since Germany's last recession, in 1993, its companies have greatly increased their return on capital as they have shed unproductive workers and subsidiaries or moved to low-cost locations.
Joe saves this same amount annually until age 70 and earns an average compound annual return over that time of 6% by investing in a balanced mix of low-cost stock and bond mutual funds.
Adding the Lucasfilm IP to our existing Disney, Pixar and Marvel IP clearly enhances our ability to serve consumers, strengthening our competitive position -- and we are confident we can earn a return on invested capital well in excess of our cost of capital.
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Bookstores return about thirty-five per cent of the hardcovers they buy, and publishers write off the cost of producing those books.
But while the lower-cost regional schools won't make you as rich, they hold their own against the national schools in return on investment.
Stardust is an ambitious but low-cost mission to capture the first samples from a comet, as well as grains of interstellar dust, and return them to Earth.
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