Although many companies announce they "plan" to buy back their shares, Fried filters out the noise and goes for companies actually doing the buybacks and then screens for stocks trading at low price-to-earnings ratios, low price-to-book ratios and which meet an overall "value" criteria.

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The Volkswagen Passat won the 2012 Motor Trend Car of the Year award (which judges models on a variety of value and safety criteria), propelling it to sales of over 117, 000 that year alone.

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Valentina Musco Puleo, daughter of store co-owners Joe and Agata Musco, traveled to Italy to find producers whose olives and oil met her family's criteria for quality and value.

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Granted, if two nonprofits in the same field show radically different results according to criteria that you trust and value, you'd be pretty foolish to ignore the message.

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The Cornerstone Value model takes all of the stocks that pass the four aforementioned criteria (market cap, shares outstanding, sales, and cash flow) and ranks them according to dividend yield.

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The main criteria for including an element in the inventory were authenticity, representativeness, artistic value, vitality, rootedness in tradition.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

As I have detailed elsewhere, an abundance of evidence suggests that much of this uptick is the result of corrected misdiagnoses, recalibrated diagnostic criteria, and greater awareness and that 1% is emerging as a fairly steady value in populations worldwide.

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The criteria for inscription in the World Heritage List are defined in the Statement of Outstanding Universal Value.

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As bottom up, research driven, value investors, we at Teton employ many of the same metrics in the valuation of our portfolio candidates as criteria used by strategic corporate buyers, and private equity outfits.

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