U., based on the ratio of overall VC investment as a percentage of each country's gross domestic product.
Hesler says to keep an eye on the ratio of the Dow Jones industrial average to the price of an ounce of gold.
Conceptually, one can think of the final PRVit score as a ranking based on the ratio of intrinsic value (calculated from performance and risk) relative to current market value.
The official parity calculation was based on the ratio of farm prices to nonfarm prices between 1910 and 1914, the most prosperous non-wartime years for farmers in American history.
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For example, Pennsylvania taxes baseball, basketball and hockey players on the ratio games in the state over total games played, including pre- and postseason, but they tax football players based on days worked in the state over total days worked.
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Regulators focus more often on the ratio of reserves to total loans (most banks hover below 2%), yet this does not take into account the risks that companies are shouldering, says John W. McCune, director of research for SNL's Financial Institutions Group.
Using Argon-argon dating - a technique based on the decay ratio of radioactive potassium - researchers at the University of California Berkeley and the University of Glasgow have revised both the date of the dinosaur extinction 66 million years ago, and the timing of the Chicxulub asteroid impact that occurred at around the same time.
Maybe, then, those who so strenuously disagree with my take on this can tell me why the State of Florida requested a waiver on the medical loss ratio in the first place?
India does, in fact, publish data (since 1999) on the sex ratio at birth.
In a long time, based on the PE ratio.
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That General Mills managed such robust dividend payouts without putting upward pressure on the dividend payout ratio (the percentage of profits the dividend represents) and the cash dividend payout ratio (the proportion of free cash flow that goes to dividend payouts) is good evidence that its dividend gravy train is in great shape.
But in the rest of the world, nothing appeals more than reporting on outliers in the ratio between net worth and age.
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On the one hand, the ratio of capital to assets would be boosted very significantly in "good" RBS, because some loans and investments with very high risk weights (in the jargon) would have been detached.
The put to call ratio on the fund is currently at its highest since June 2010.
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The bid-to-cover ratio on the five-year bond was 1.61, compared with 1.3 at the previous sale.
The key figure participants should focus on is the investment expense ratio charged by mutual funds for assets you hold in the plan.
On average, the ratio was virtually unchanged in those 10 countries, down 0.1%.
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The dividend yield for the market is a function of its price-earnings ratio more than the dividend payout ratio on earnings.
For example, you didn't mention that the recent interest-rate rise on January 31st followed both an unexpected increase in the cash reserve ratio by the central bank and cuts to import duty on several items by the government in order to check inflation.
Rather, the long-term rate of return on stocks is determined by the ratio of share price to dividends.
The combination of increased demand and constraints on supply has pushed up the ratio of average house prices to average earnings in the city from 4.8 in 1990 to 7.6 now.
For Bank of America, the managers are banking on a rebound in the dividend payout ratio to 30% in the next few years.
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So I was telling investors that even though valuations have increased, and what I mean by that is that the price-to-earnings ratio on 2013 estimates for the defensive sectors is at 17.5x versus about 14x for the cyclical sectors.
With hours worked stagnant, our main source of growth must come from productivity gains, which depends on investment to raise the ratio of capital to labor.
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In high school, she was the only girl to take physics, and she later went on to attend MIT when the student ratio was 10:1 women.
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All of these regulations, and especially the caps on insurance company margins (AKA the Medical Loss Ratio) have a more pervasive and longstanding effect than the just these near term price increases, as painful as those hikes will be.
So Mr Shimpi tells his clients to overcome their preoccupation with the debt-equity ratio and to concentrate instead on the underlying issues: how much capital does the company need, and how much should be on and off the balance sheet to minimise its total cost?
However, with the right ratio backspread, you can bet on the downside with a little more confidence.
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He estimates that the loss ratio--the amount spent on care compared to the premium collected--is around 200%.
Really, in the last couple years, the full ratio on bonds, historically, are negligible.
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