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Bank Valuation: Understanding Key Ratios and Metrics

Tom Spencer

In a scenario where earnings estimates are declining (usually driven by weakening credit conditions or weak capital markets), investors tend to focus on the price-to-book (P/B) valuation methodology. Price-to-book (P/B) The P/B ratio compares a bank’s stock price to its book value per share.

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Are you a Loser, Struggler, Con Artist, or Winner?

The Fearless Marketer

Show how your service works and what principles and methodologies it is based on. Comparison. Show that you really understand their industry, role, situation, problems, needs, and wants in great depth. Technology. Show what your service is compared to other approaches they may have tried before without success.

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Is Your Business a “Service” or a “Brand”?

The Fearless Marketer

And it’s hard to avoid the massive marketing of this device and comparisons it to its closest competitor, the Samsung “Galaxy S9.”. By proprietary methodologies. When you have a different and more effective way of getting results, you stand apart from all of those using older methodologies. you build a know-like-trust factor.

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Gallup Says Seasonally-Adjusted Unemployment Climbs to 8.6%; Who to Believe (Gallup or the BLS)?

MishTalk

Similar to P2P, unemployment fluctuates seasonally, and the year-over-year change is the most informative comparison. unemployment rate -- the closest comparison it has to the official numbers released by the BLS -- increased in August. Gallup''s unadjusted unemployment rate for the U.S. workforce was 8.7% in August, up from 7.8%

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Why you need a COO or operations manager

Asamby Consulting

The Operations Manager's is usually not as wide or as deep, focusing on a more specific task, either on methodological or functional level. A potential candidate must have methodological experience, e.g. has set up a process documentation for other companies before. These roles are also types of functional operations management roles.

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Is Corporate Short-Termism Really a Problem? The Jury’s Still Out

Harvard Business

It has a reasonable methodology. McKinsey tries to address this issue by doing comparisons within industries. I was therefore excited to see that McKinsey had a new empirical study that provides evidence in favor of the view that corporations should take longer views.

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Would a Hard Brexit Cripple the EU’s Digital Economy?

Harvard Business

The chart below shows the rate of change in the Digital Evolution Index over 2008-15 and how the UK performs in comparison to Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and the Nordic countries. Editor’s note: Every ranking or index is just one way to analyze and compare companies or places, based on a specific methodology and data set.