Not quite as good but a better price performance ratio than the now more expensive palladium.
Staying true to his macho style, Yu also used this opportunity to take a dig at the Galaxy S III's price-to-performance ratio.
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Because the performance ratio looks at the whole, rather than the sum of the parts, this indicator can take into consideration individual variables that are ignored by current metrics.
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By measuring the performance ratio, power plant owners and operators can immediately and fully predict the performance of the plant over its lifetime, accurately assessing the value of the plant.
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This includes the consideration of price performance, income and the expense ratio all in combination.
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When the ratio rises, it signals a stronger performance by gold relative to silver, and vice-versa.
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Sharpe, a professor emeritus at Stanford, invented the Sharpe Ratio for measuring the risk-adjusted performance of investments.
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He says the fund invests in stocks that are considered less risky, it has had a strong performance and it has a below-average expense ratio.
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On the other hand, the price-to-book ratio is a useful measure of value, and most researchers agree that this ratio is strongly correlated with stock price performance.
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 greater the ratio, the better the risk-adjusted performance is said to be.
They evaluated the remaining 350 companies using key environmental, social, and governance performance indicators, including waste productivity, CEO-to-average-worker pay ratio, leadership diversity, and employee turnover.
You can't compare performance to pay for a single year: Both numbers are far too volatile to yield a meaningful ratio.
The iShares EAFE exchange-traded fund (amex: EFA - news - people ), for example, tracks the performance of 829 companies in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region and has a rock-bottom expense ratio of 0.35%.
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