Home Star legislation making its way through the U.S. Senate may give the home-performance industry a big shot in the arm.
"Whether working on shots in a large studio, boutique or as an independent artist, there has long been a performance gap that limits how well even the most cutting edge applications can perform in professional workstations, " said Vincent Brisebois, Fusion-io Performance Computing Industry Senior Director.
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Villa responded to losing 7-1 to the Premier League leaders a fortnight earlier with a performance of industry and desire and their manager Martin O'Neill will also believe his side should have had a first-half penalty when Jon Mikel Obi clumsily felled Gabriel Agbonlahor inside the area.
For whatever reason, the best companies in these countries have superior disclosure, better performance against same industry peers, and better performance improvement over time.
Currently, over 20% of sales come from ecommerce channels, a top tier performance in the industry.
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Its EBITDAR margin is 10.8%, which is just 16th percentile performance in an industry where the median is 18.8%.
Why, given the abysmal performance of the industry as a whole, do investors continue to come back for more punishment?
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This return, 3M candidly confesses, is 1.5 percentage points above its own projections of market indexes for pension industry performance.
In these discussions, companies would do well to stay out of the technical weeds of next year's performance metrics or industry-specific business strategies.
What is more, it is hard to know how hedge funds actually fare, since indices that track industry performance tend to overstate the returns.
We ranked candidate companies for financial performance against their industry peers in one of 26 industry groups over the latest five years and most recent 12 months.
"While demonstrating superior industry performance and operational efficiency, the New Sustainability Champions innovate to overcome the real constraints that they face, " said Knut Haanaes, a BCG partner.
As he shows repeatedly in the book, both fund and industry performance suffers with growth in size (he calculates the correlation between hedge fund size and performance as -0.42).
To test his thesis, Lack deconstructed industry performance data.
And as everywhere else in the semiconductor industry, performance doubles and redoubles, and prices keep falling.
Misrepresented or unverified performance is a significant industry problem that does not receive the attention it deserves because it is not easily detected.
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The precise issue addressed by Oxenford is the threatened imposition of performance royalties on an industry that has heretofore paid only songwriting royalties.
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This strategy is being pursued in tandem with opening smaller-sized mobile stand-alone stores which increase average revenue per square feet, a key performance measure for this industry.
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Earlier this year, it said its recordable injury rate there had declined every year since 2005, and that the refinery's 2009 safety performance ranked among the industry's leaders.
This performance outpaced other wine industry funds, (see table, below).
The categories have been changed by battery suppliers, turbo power gasps of air that allow for mindful performance, and an industry that has been electrified by Tesla and an outcry for alternative fuels.
The firm provides emergency management, safety strategies and performance monitoring to the aviation industry.
He points to the strong inverse correlation between capital spending in the industry and share performance.
He has written a provocative book questioning a central tenet of the hedge-fund industry: its performance is always worth paying for.
They represent the broadest LED performance display lineup in the industry.
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In addition, his proprietary TopStocks Strategy focuses on the top ranked stocks in terms of earnings strength and company performance in the top performing industry groups.
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Company data such as return on assets and return on equity are analyzed with respect to trends in their own performance, and relative to industry averages.
Recognized for its industry-leading performance across a range of economic, environmental and social criteria, Samsung Electronics was named the world's most sustainable technology company in the 2011 Dow Jones Sustainability Index.
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Javier Gil-Bazo and Pablo Ruiz-Verdu studied the relationship between mutual fund performance, management fees, commissions and flow of funds in The Relation between Price and Performance in the Mutual Fund Industry.
As you can see from the figure below, the performance of the venture capital industry has been reasonably consistent for the past few years, with about exits being about 15 percent of investments made five years earlier.
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