Aspect tracks the form, function and price of more than 10 million components, then meshes this mega-catalog with a client's data on preferred suppliers, inventory and buying habits. 3Com Corp. used it to learn that six departments were paying different prices for the same component from different suppliers.
The dividend yield for the market is a function of its price-earnings ratio more than the dividend payout ratio on earnings.
Gasoline (or petrol as it is called in India) is partially deregulated so the price is a function of international market rates whereas diesel is heavily subsidized in the country.
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In the tech-hardware business, competition over price is really a function of scale: firms with higher volume can make things more cheaply.
But share price is supposed to be a function of future earnings, in theory, at least.
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In most developed markets, the primary function of an equity market is to provide price discovery, allowing successful companies to raise capital for profitable investment opportunities.
But the spread between the price of the raw material and the price of the finished good is a function of the supply of ethylene-making capacity and the demand for ethylene.
Several Republicans suggest the party should insist on taking an axe to the budget as the price for allowing the government to continue to function.
To be sure, setting the price and use of curbside space is an essentially public function.
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Happiness is a function of when they got in: In five years Cisco's stock price is down 26%.
What price-earnings ratio to put on the market is more of a function of the going inflation rate and the confidence level of the recession's depth and duration.
As with any excise tax, the amount of revenue a weed tax could generate is a function of four big things: The tax rate, supply, demand, and price.
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