The bank passed stress test with 5.9% capital ratio but apparently did not request any capital returns after its proposed dividend hike was rejected in 2011.

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With long-term earnings and revenue growth both above 19%, attractive valuations (the stock's PEG ratio is 0.47), high returns on equity, and a decent dividend yield, it's easy to see why Reese's guru strategies find the stock a good one for 2010 and beyond.

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Measured by the ratio of whites to blacks, the ratio of city to rural folk and past election returns, Missouri is a microcosm of the nation that surrounds it.

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In the past, levels of 23 or so on this "Shiller Price-to-Earnings Ratio" have almost always been followed by poor returns over the subsequent decade, according to research by Prof.

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In 1988, he got attracted to International Dairy Queen and bought 50 shares of its class A stock mainly because he thought it was a company that Buffett would favor, given its good products, easy-to-understand operations, high returns on equity, little debt, and a reasonable price-earnings ratio.

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For instance, a fund with an attractive Sharpe ratio over the past 10 years would have managed to bring in returns to compensate investors for the risk it took through the recession of the early 2000s, the subsequent boom years, the recession that started in 2008 and the volatility of last year.

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Then he will look at the Sharpe ratio to see which funds are taking on outsize risk to get those returns.

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The ratio, devised by a Nobel-prize winning economist, looks at the relationship between investment returns and their variability.

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