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...I have excluded four companies that are either expected to report negative earnings or for which there are no estimates (Moderna, Warner Brothers, Ventas and Loews) as negative P/E ratios mess up the maths...
...They’re digital tokens backed either by a) dollar-denominated portfolios of safe assets; b) unaudited promises that they have safe assets; or c) magical confidence maths that only work until a death spiral...
...Most large consumer packaged goods groups, including P&G, are still operating on tighter margins than they were before the pandemic....
...Wilson looks at forward P/E and forward P/sales ratios, comparing current levels to their post-financial crisis medians. Few look cheap....
...Michael Sklar, develops “nonstandard trial designs”, which seems to basically use maths to speed up the process of developing pharmaceutical studies....
...And economics was more math-y. It wasn’t that they weren’t good at math. It was that they wanted to be immersed in a subject that was about people. But economics is about people....
...In 1959, the physicist and novelist C.P. Snow, gave a lecture in Cambridge called, “The Two Cultures” in which he deplored this “gulf of mutual incomprehension” between literary figures and scientists....
...Just do the maths! Trevor Williams: No — it may have gone too far in raising taxes....
...In comparison, the 3,260MW Sizewell C facility being built in the UK will cost £20bn ($27bn)....
...Avast currently trades at 21x FY21e P/E or c. 5.5% FCFF yield, a level we continue to view as attractive vs. the wider software sector, especially given WFH benefit as well as optionality around M&A/buybacks...
...Our math suggests an impressive 33% ROIC at these new levels. 15K units at little incremental cost....
...The first is Accor’s recent downgrade to junk from S&P, which would likely have been a significant and unexpected complication to any deal maths....
...However, the sales unwind into 2H20-1H21 could be significant, which is a risk given a 2021e P/E ratio of almost 27x....
...The three questions below are examples of those that have been used in a maths test that candidates at GCHQ assessment centres sit....
...They just have to beat a benchmark — post a higher return than the S&P 500, say, for equity PMs, which we call “generating alpha” — and alpha doesn’t review time sheets (if only)....
...The ONS estimates the value of land and assets-over-land to be over £5tn compared to a GDP of c£2tn....
...Do similar maths as above, imagine annual capital injections worth 1.5 per cent of the endowment, and you get a minimum return target of [(1.044 * 1.058 * 0.985) - 1] = 8.8 per cent....
...These maths could even allow for some temporary deficit spending to reflate the economy....
...If these levels are sustained it will be hard for acquirers to make the maths stack up for takeovers such as Shell’s $70bn purchase of BG....
...For a period of five years, starting in the autumn of 2010, I was a familiar visitor to Greenspan’s offices in Washington, D.C., and saw him in other contexts, too: at home, hosting a dinner for a former...
...Understanding money is little use without basic maths — and adults in the UK perform poorly on this measure, with four out of five having a “low level of numeracy”, equivalent to below GCSE grade C, according...
...companies’ growing interest in the region. http://on.ft.com/YnSn1Z Aiming to overcome neglect of Africa The African continent is far more neglected by business schools than it ought to be, according to Katie Carr...
...To practice tabulating statistics for math class, Tim had developed a survey to evaluate the sixth-grade teachers....
...In Plymouth, for example, I reckon the existing local authority primaries got £3,855 p.c. in funding from the LA and DfE in 2010-11....
...I chose engineering as an undergrad because I loved maths and sciences and thought it was a good general degree to have....
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