This is the cost of goods sold divided by the average value of inventory for a given period.
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Over the past 14 years the average value of an NFL team has increased 284%, to 1.11 billion.
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To make matters worse, fewer brand new drugs are being approved, and the average value of new drugs is dropping.
Because oil always returns to its average value of 0.0735 ounces of gold per barrel, there is an opportunity for arbitrage.
But the Employment Cost Index shows that the average value of health benefits rose 18 percent from 1998 to 2008, adjusting for inflation.
They have developed a series of ancillary revenue sources that have pushed the average value of a franchise to over a billion dollars.
The average value of a retail transaction was actually lower last year than the prior year, but TJX managed to bring lots more customers through the doors.
Bakers can overestimate the demand for their product and make too many, driving down the average value of a cupcake in the same way that inflation lowers the value of money.
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Regulators could instruct lenders that the combined maximum loan amount should not exceed 85% of the moving-average value of a property, offered as collateral, over the preceding four to six years.
The average book value of the life firms' shares is now equivalent to 14, 900 on the Nikkei 225 stockmarket average, compared with the Nikkei's actual level of around 20, 600.
The average real value of the dollar increased by almost 42% from 1996 to 2001.
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Television revenue represents the average annual value of current TV contracts.
In addition, as indicated in the following graph, the average exit value of Nordic companies has grown by 70% from the 1999-2004 period to the 2005-2010 period.
But much of these loans are in the form of mortgages or home loans, and the bank says that the average ratio of the value of the loans to the value of underlying properties is low.
For business sports brands, I first calculated how much the branded enterprise would fetch in an arms-length transaction, and then subtracted the average enterprise value of what similar businesses the same size have been sold for, or are being valued.
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On average, the value of those companies has risen almost by half since January.
Many Californians had gotten used to enjoying an average home value increase of 38 percent for the past 20 years.
They average out the value of their investments over five years or so, which tends to obscure the depth of their losses in times when the financial markets have taken a hit, like they have in recent years.
Snowling ticks off other advantages for Sallie: low interest rate risk (given government guarantees), profit growth expectations in the 15% range, a rich return on equity (net income divided by average book value) of 38%, and a cheap valuation relative to history and the broader market.
Tests running at two big sawmills, in Europe and in America, suggest that the improvement in yield can run from 2% to 18% for different kinds of tree, with an average gain of 10% in the value of the timber produced from a log.
Berkshire shares are trading near their lowest valuation in decades: close to 1.1 times book value, versus its average valuation of about 1.6 times book value over the past two decades.
Market volatility can be countered by basing payouts, say, on a three-year rolling average of portfolio value.
It trades at 14 times earnings, versus a ten-year average of 17, and multiples of book value and sales are likewise depressed.
The length of the transfer penalty period incurred is calculated by dividing the value of your asset transfer by the average monthly cost of nursing care in your state.
As domestic and foreign capital has taken flight, the peso has dropped to about 50 to the dollar-off 25% from its average of 40 in 1999 and about half its value of 26 at the onset of the Asian financial crisis in 1997.
Meanwhile, American car shoppers pay about 5.7 percent on average in taxes over the value of the car.
Whereas Europe's average ratio of public equity value to gdp is 114% and the U.S.' ratio is nearly 200%, Germany's is just 67%.
With rates remaining at such levels, house prices are expected to keep rising, adding about 14% to the value of the average house.
More generally, there was a wider spread of value among the teams, so that the average quality of the teams in the Euros is higher.
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