Operating margins, a key measure of efficiency, rose from 13.5% to 15.1% since he took over.
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Congress has long included a ban on five-day-only delivery in its spending bills, but because the federal government is now operating under a temporary spending measure rather than an appropriations bill, Donahoe says it's the agency's interpretation that it can make the change itself.
At Communigraphics in Denver (one of those six plants with operating losses), the chargeability measure is up 5 points, to 83%, in the second half of 2002 from the first half.
Worst of all, it sets up yet another fiscal crisis in just a few months when, in short order, the federal government reaches its legal borrowing limit and yet another temporary measure keeping government agencies operating expires.
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This is the measure of output (taken as operating profit after tax and some other adjustments) less input (taken as the annual rental charge on the total capital employed, both debt and equity).
ECONOMIST: The ultimate measure by which a company is judged
As a measure of valuation, Segarra uses the operating earnings yield (the inverse of the price-operating earnings ratio).
Free cash flow, an alternative non-GAAP measure of liquidity, is defined as net cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures.
Earnings quality is a measure of how much a company's earnings growth is due to operating success as opposed to quirks of bookkeeping or taxation.
Earnings quality is a measure of how much a company's earnings growth is a result of operating success as opposed to quirks of bookkeeping or taxation.
One measure of how expensive REITs have become is capitalization rates, defined as net operating income (profit after operating expenses but before debt service) divided by a property's value.
But it is a measure of how little inclined the leadership is to trust the market's callous hand operating through such things as mergers, sales and, especially, bankruptcies.
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