The plucky crossover received a perfect five out of five overall quality rating score from J.
Helium uses a complicated formula that calculates daily earnings for each article, based on its quality rating.
In our earnings quality rating system, eight stocks scored high grades, ten got neutral grades and ten failed the smell test.
The prospect of downgrades have also wracked the companies' stocks because a bond insurer without the highest-quality rating would have trouble winning new business.
Virgin America is the highest-quality major airline in the United States, according to the 2013 Airline Quality Rating report, an annual study of airline performance.
The Airline Quality Rating report is the premier statistical study of major airline performance in the United States, and has been conducted annually since 1991.
Such a quality-rating system could also transmit clear signals to consumers regarding the quality and relative benefits of insurance products in your state.
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While the old Care Quality Commission rating system did have problems, critics say it was at least a system which was nationally recognised, independent, and easy for the public to understand.
Moody's now looks closely at hospital clinical quality measures when rating debt offerings.
Moody's now looks at clinical quality measures when rating debt offerings.
The Obama administration has also made quality measurement a focus, rating the private health plans that operate in the program.
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But actually Crestwood, like a lot of MLPs, is trying to get bigger through mergers so it can improve its asset quality and thereby boost its credit rating.
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The U.S. also scored rather poorly in quality of math and science education, rating no. 52 worldwide.
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The Health Which? panel gave each of the stop snoring products a "research rating", based on the quality of the evidence provided.
GMP3 gave the players a three (out of five) headphone rating, citing the solid sound quality as pretty much the only thing they have going for 'em.
When rating cities for 4G access and quality, RootMetrics took more than speed into account: By their reckoning, a "4G city" must also offer a choice of reliable 4G providers.
Though Seattle and Portland are both pioneering liberal-minded cities with strong community roots, they have long traded jibes on non-sporting matters, such as the quality of their brew pubs, the hipster rating of their alternative music scenes and the potency of their single origin micro-roasted coffee.
The rating agencies say that the deteriorating credit quality of those trying to finance adventurous takeovers could spell trouble.
Sefton council is not the only one to pay a quality premium to homes awarded a four or five-star rating.
To earn an attractive-or-better predictive rating, an ETF or mutual fund must have high-quality holdings and low costs.
Given the rating, some investors might assume Sam Rayburn is a lower-quality credit.
We could ask the rating agencies to give up attempting to produce absolute measures of credit quality and instead focus on providing only relative measures.
User-generated content can be voted on by players with a star rating, so it will be easy to find the popular, high-quality stuff.
Six months ago, Marubeni, a Japanese trading company whose bonds are rated as junk by Moody's, a rating agency, paid investors 6-7 percentage points more than top-quality borrowers.
In a unique feature for a same-day booking app, HotelTonight shows an average rating from other users of the app, which can be a helpful gauge of hotel quality.
The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has a rating system for developers, called the Capability Maturity Model, that takes into account ability to produce quality software on time and on budget.
The investors are likely to pull the raw information about a borrower, roll up their sleeves, and analyze the credit quality themselves, either as a primary decision-making tool, or as a double-check on the rating.
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