Google's enterprise multiple, the ratio of market cap plus debt to operating earnings (Ebitda, that is), is 33, compared with an industry average of 18 (where Yahoo is).

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Crew is a Wall Street darling, as you can see in its high enterprise multiple, defined as the ratio of enterprise value (market value of common, plus debt, minus cash) to Ebitda (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).

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Use multiple valuation metrics--not just the ratio of price-to-earnings but the ratios of price-to-sales and price-to-book.

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This time they did multiple clones of multiple people, and they did it at a ratio that is roughly equivalent to what it would take you to do in vitro fertilization, something a lot of people are familiar with.

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The netbook's large 11.6-inch high-definition LED-backlit widescreen (16:9 ratio) display is large enough to easily view multiple windows and reduces the need to scroll to view Internet sites, providing a better end user experience.

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Beaten up Hovnanian Enterprises, for example, carries a price-to-book value ratio of 0.9, cheap relative to an average multiple since 1988 of 1.1.

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Certainly conservatively run community banks pose a much lower risk to our financial system at a 6% leverage ratio, compared to a large TBTF organization with still undefined ties with multiple counter-parties, and with proprietary trading operations.

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Although the trial has several limitations, children in the low sugar group scored significantly lower across multiple measures of obesity, including BMI, weight, skinfold-thickness measurements, waist-to-height ratio, and fat mass.

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