To do this, take your ETF's net asset value, compare it to its benchmark, and if it's significantly above the expense ratio, look into why that is.
What we actually want to compare is the value added.
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The value of EV lies in its ability to compare companies with different capital structures.
Compare that to the value the stock market is giving to the business, and you could discover an interesting opportunity.
We use EBIT--earnings before interest and taxes--and we compare that to enterprise value, which is the market value of a company's stock plus the long-term debt that a company has.
As sales of companies almost always occur at substantial premiums, the cash-out potential will compare very favorably to current value.
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The numbers are based on FanGraphs' projected 2012 wins above replacement (WAR), a statistic used to compare a player's value to the average Triple-A fill-in.
Compare the home's market value to comparable homes in the neighborhood, for instance.
Therefore, because Submariner watches hold value so well, it is a good idea to compare other comparably priced watches to the Submariner to see if you are at least getting a good deal.
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Compare that to the after-tax value of a taxable investment and you start to see the benefits more clearly.
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This is a somewhat beguiling metric to compare companies by -- market cap measures the value of a company's shares available on the market, and not every company has the same proportion of its overall value available in stocks -- but it illustrates well the diametrically opposite directions in which the two mobile phone makers are moving.
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But no matter what the payment details are, every type of financial instrument is a promise, a promise of payment in the future, and so every single one of them presents an important question: How do I compare the value of money invested now, with money which I expect to receive in the future?
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To compare Jobs to DaVinci or Edison is an absurd notion that diminishes the value of true innovators.
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Third, the industry does not generally offer value-for-money products, but rather an array of proliferating instruments that are difficult to compare and understand.
Which means that we have to find some similar measure of value add in a company, not turnover, which we can compare with GDP.
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It's impossible to add up all the indirect environmental costs of a windmill, but a good proxy for this arithmetic is simply to compare the resources consumed (in dollars) with the output produced (in dollar value of the electricity).
If we have some policy idea that will save lives we need to compare the cost of implementing that policy against the number of lives saved at that statistical value.
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