The good news is that the brand can serve as a surrogate for the added-value consumers are looking for, and become a driving factor in the value equation.
The numbers get better when we factor in the value of the dollar.
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Maybe four more decades of fiat money would see the value of the dollar decline by another factor of forty-eight.
This is what France did after their World War I devaluation, which reduced the value of the franc by about a factor of five.
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Perhaps it has more to do with engineering and design excellence, with the user experience, with the coolness factor, with the perceived value, and with the desire to support a better future for America that we hope to pass on to our children and to their children.
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The real value of the company and the differentiating factor was not in the market it was going after--which became plagued with issues--but the underlying technology for making the component products.
Some 83% of collectors surveyed said that the emotional value of buying art was the most important factor.
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The official value of the local currency has plummeted by a factor of 16 in the past year, with inflation at over 780%.
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It states that the value of any investment is the present value of all future cash flows discounted by a risk factor.
The value had fallen by a factor of about 6.
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"When fans figure out it'll end at say, 789, that's the ball to own, " says Doug Allen of Mastro Auctions, the biggest sports auction house in the U.S. The expected pursuit of Bonds' record by Alex Rodriguez, according to Allen, isn't a big factor in the value of the 756th ball right now, given that Rodriguez is still 256 homers away.
In fact, television revenue is essentially the sole driving factor in conference value, while income from bowl games and basketball tournaments has been relegated to a rounding error.
"The financial value of artefacts such as these is perhaps the very least important factor, " he said.
To figure out the true value of the employee, think about their true potential to add value to the organization well into the future and then factor in their level of emotional expensiveness.
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Of course, these comparisons also ignore the convenience factor as well as the value of your time.
So the reported value had been inflated by a factor of eight thousand?
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He said the total value of derivatives in the world exceeds total global gross domestic product by a factor of 10, according to the Bloomberg report.
The concept of a derivative product, with a value that depends on at least one risk factor, has been the greatest financial-product innovation of the 20th century.
What would have been the impact on commodity prices and the foreign exchange value of the dollar if the Fed had increased the money supply by a factor of eight (rather than a factor of three) in a bit more than four years?
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Another major factor is the tremendous amount of value that has been drained out of the housing market in the wake of the bubble.
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Even if you are able to convert points or miles into cash, how are you supposed to factor in the possibility of the value of these points or miles changing overnight?
Instead, mix models only grossly estimate this value with an externally derived factor of 2X the immediate effect for the longer-term effect.
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They play the field with a multi-factor approach that blends various value indicators together.
Its ad certainly ups the edginess factor for a company that sells directly to consumers through value multi-packs at chains like Wal-Mart.
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Many financial economists, for example, argue that the higher returns earned by value stocks are due to some other risk factor that they have not yet accounted for.
One way to employ a value tilt in a portfolio is to use the Fama-French Three Factor Model.
One factor that makes indexing "a horrendous idea, " the renowned value investor Seth Klarman of Baupost Group argued earlier this year, is that hedge funds and others have long beaten the index funds to the punch on trades that the autopilot portfolios are forced to make.
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But economists reckon that a significant factor in the committee's deliberations was the recent fall in the value of sterling.
Style characteristics also help define market cap, although the signals can conflict depending on what factor is used to differentiate growth stocks from value stocks.
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