Money is not the objective metric of value we so often believe it to be.
Over time, you can determine a new metric of enduring value of the influencer.
The lowly ranked Customer Lifetime Value metric is often an overlooked but very valuable metric for aligning the performance of various groups across an organization.
The baseline valuation for an online retailer will probably include the inventory and a capitalization of earnings, revenues, and whatever other key metric is used to value such a business.
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In The Dangerous Seduction Of LTV, venture capitalist Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital pointed out ten pitfalls associated with one increasingly notorious metric: the lifetime customer value model (LTV).
In particular, I had always mistrusted the Value-at-Risk metric and its offshoots that had been crammed down my throat as an undergraduate finance student.
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Banks with privately traded stock have a difficult time establishing that their stock is worth more than 100% of tangible book value, a commonly used accounting metric in the banking industry, he explained.
The latter metric, which measures a company's market value, plus net debt, to its revenues, makes Opnet look cheaper at just 1.5.
Another survey revealed that 78 percent of managers would reject an NPV (net present value)-positive project if it would lower quarterly earnings below consensus expectations, and 80 percent would focus on this short-term metric at the expense of building long-term shareholder value.
This is a somewhat beguiling metric to compare companies by -- market cap measures the value of a company's shares available on the market, and not every company has the same proportion of its overall value available in stocks -- but it illustrates well the diametrically opposite directions in which the two mobile phone makers are moving.
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This metric takes expected rental income and measures it as a percentage of property value.
They demonstrate the value the agency has brought to the client and, in this metric-conscious world, there is little better than that.
With its consensus metric back to its usual low variability, another surprise crisis could scatter its value scores and potentially impact its ROE, especially since it enjoys such a high reputation premium.
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On page C-1 of the WSJ today reporter Ben Levisohn discovered that many value investors are moving away from price earnings multiples as a key valuation metric.
The key policy breakthrough to unlock these dead resources is for the Fed to commit to maintaining the value of the dollar, with a stable gold price as a key metric and report card.
The key metric will no doubt be whether the supported or incubated business model has legs, traction and adds value to the sustainable healthcare economy or is just one more niche market exploitation to enrich the investors, enable a quick exit but leave little to no sustainable ripple in the healthcare borg.
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But value-added is complex and difficult to implement properly, and even more difficult to use as a metric for getting rid of bad teachers.
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