The ISE Sentiment Index is a ratio of call options to put options.
The Talent Brand Index is a ratio of the number of people who are interested in your company divided by the number of people who know about your company.
All models were required to have a body mass index -- a ratio of height and weight -- above 18, the minimum limit considered healthy by the World Health Organization.
The studies measured the participants' body mass index (BMI), a ratio of their height and weight, but it wasn't able to take into account their body fat composition, or how much of their overall body weight was made up of fat versus muscle.
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Then, compare the expense ratio to the chart of index funds on this page, each of which is among the cheapest for the index it tracks, according to Morningstar.
The one-month earnings revision ratio for the MSCI Japan index, which compares increases to consensus earnings forecasts against reductions, was most recently recording more than two upgrades for every downgrade.
However, consider two identical Index ETFs one with an expense ratio of 0.25% while the other is 0.50%.
In Britain shares in the FTSE 100 index trade on an historic price-earnings ratio of less than ten and yield 5%, around three-quarters of a percentage point more than government bonds.
Body Mass Index (BMI) is defined as the ratio of weight (in kg) to height (in meters) squared and is an inexact measure of body fat, though it supposedly establishes cutoff points of normal weight, overweight, and obesity.
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By looking at two metrics an affordability index and a price-to-income ratio Zillow researchers have determined that low mortgage rates that make homes appear incredibly affordable are overshadowing a bigger overall trend in which the overall prices of homes are actually significantly more expensive than historic norms relative to annual incomes.
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They worked out the ratio of the length of the index finger to the length of the ring finger for each child, and compared it with those of 34 of the children's healthy siblings, 88 of their fathers, 88 of their mothers, and a number of unrelated controls that were matched for sex and age.
At spread-betting firm City Index, the male-to-female ratio of punters is 10:1.
Although Index Mundi reports that the 2012 Debt to GDP ratio for Cypress to be a relatively healthy 80.9%, the reality is a whole lot worse.
Tom Lydon, president of Global Trends Investments, says good ETFs have a reasonable expense ratio, a well-diversified underlying index and underlying stocks with lots of liquidity.
IShares MSCI New Zealand Investable Market Index Fund (ENZL) has a relatively low expense ratio of 0.51%.
On September 30, 2011, the ratio between the price of gold and the CRB Index was 3.217.
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The Vanguard Total Stock Market Admiral Shares (VTSAX) with an expense ratio of 0.06 percent was selected as his market index fund proxy.
The Dividend Integrity Index simply divides the past 5 year dividend growth rate by the dividend payout ratio, and listed values greater than one.
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The Integrity Index identifies companies that have promising increases in dividends while still honoring a low payout ratio as well.
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Crawford also cites a declining ratio of new highs to new lows, as well as a rising Volatility Index (VIX).
That logic seemed to work in January 2001 when the ratio hit a high of 0.97, suggesting that investors thought the index was ready to take off.
But the ratio of inventories to orders is now back at its long-run average and the index has eased to 55 in June from a peak of 57.8 two months before.
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The average exchange traded fund (ETF) does have a lower expense ratio than the average traditional mutual fund, but not less than most low-cost index funds that have been available for decades.
The ratio of home ownership has already declined from high sixties to the low sixties percentile, and the rentals index is favorable, but not forever.
The higher the Index value the better, because it either has a high 5 year growth rate tempered by a fairly low payout ratio, or a modest growth history with a very low payout ratio.
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