Morgan, calculates that, counting both dividends and buybacks, the total pay-out ratio has been quite steady.
The eight-week average of this ratio, which smooths out the week-to-week volatility, is an even more bullish 1.03-to-1.
When the dividend-payout ratio--the percentage of earnings paid out as dividends--climbed above 50% in the late 1950s, the subsequent ten-year earnings growth was 2% to 4% a year.
The 30-year-old American offered possible explanations as to why a test result showed his testosterone-to-epitestosterone ratio was out of whack.
The most likely alternatives, butter and pig fat, were ruled out using a technique called isotope-ratio mass spectrometry, which measures the molecular weights of the chemicals in a sample.
At the time of its demise, Bear Stearns was overextended by a leverage ratio of 30-to-1 (the ratio of money leant out vs. capital on hand).
Of all stock market measures, one stands out: The Price-to-Earnings Ratio (PE).
And everywhere, complaints abounded about the difficulty of sorting out a "40-30-30" ratio of protein to carbohydrates to fats.
Still, he concedes there are signs that the semiconductor industry's key inventory measure, the book-to-bill ratio, has bottomed out.
In the table below, check out Caterpillar, whose price-to-earnings ratio, based on estimates for the coming 12 months, stands below the consensus number on annualized earnings growth for the coming three to five years.
HMOs refer to the proportion of premiums they pay out for patient care as their "medical-loss ratio"--a chilling choice of words.
One of the things that stands out immediately is how high this ratio was in the mid-1990s.
Any self-respecting bank bull likes to whip out a chart comparing the ratio of bank loans with GDP in poor and rich countries.
The biggest success rate occurs when the loan-to-value ratio is below 66%, a condition that rules out recent subprime borrowers.
Johnson cites short interest in May of almost 23 million shares (out of a 208.6 million share float) for a short-interest ratio of 14.
The current rulemaking orgy comes as three out of four investors can't define an "expense ratio" and two-thirds think "no-load" funds are free (in truth, they don't charge a fee to start an account, but they do take annual charges for expenses).
The law sets out the maximum number of children each adult is allowed to care for - the adult: child ratio.
Though London's current price-earnings ratio of 15 sounds quite reasonable, Norwich Union's Mr Lis points out that most past bear markets have ended with ratios in single figures.
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