Suppose your top quartile of employees left to start a new company, harnessing the Cheap Revolution.
Overall, the U.S. rates in the top quartile in just 14 of the 29 institution items.
If you were already in the top quartile of high-paid plutocrats, your comp nearly doubled.
Its reputation premium ranks near the top quartile of its 89 peers in packaged software.
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Chicago high schoolers taking the American College Test scored in the bottom quartile in the country.
The hot-growth fourth quartile showed an 8% return, slightly better than the skanky first quartile's 7.5%.
Only 47% of children born to women in the top quartile of stress were males.
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Honolulu fall in the bottom quartile when it comes to housing affordability, income and cost of living.
This would immediately bring Alpha coal within the first quartile of the cash-cost curve of global coal producers.
Investors would have been better off in the third quartile, where sales rose a still-impressive 26% a year.
Fourth-quartile stocks, which expanded revenue an average 167% a year over the decade, included such winners as Williams-Sonoma.
For FBS Division I schools among the top quartile, 27% of their generated total revenues stem from alumni contributions.
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Only 9.4 percent of mid-cap funds and 23.3 percent of small-cap funds maintained top-quartile performance over the same period.
Across the board, fourth-quartile funds have a much higher rate of being merged and liquidated than all other funds.
But picking them instead of fourth-quartile losers such as Bombay Co. or Books-A-Million is largely a matter of luck.
Second-quartile stocks did best with an 11.2% compound annual return through January 2002, followed by the third quartile at 9.1%.
Private equity firms that succeed in generating top-quartile returns deal after deal must do much more than ride favorable market currents.
Tenaya IV was a top quartile fund and Tenaya V is on track to meet that mark as well, Banahan said.
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The median time from founding to IPO for these sectors ranges from 7-10 years, with the shortest quartile at 5-6 years.
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In other words, these top quartile funds actually had a much lower chance than average of staying in the top quartile.
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Among the top-quartile funds, the proportion of winners rose to 30% and the number of losers shrank to just 23% (see chart).
Even against private equity peers, Fund X ranks in the bottom quartile.
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In one generation it has lifted most of the third quartile of the world's population (by income) from poverty to the middle class.
That, in spite of the fact that the air pollution values in the higher quartile could be three times those of the lower.
The quartile with the lower exposure range of 9.7-16.9 often has higher odds values than the quartile with a higher range of 16.9-31.8.
Companies whose ratios of trading volume to earnings are in the lowest quartile become candidates for inclusion in Zebra's two recently launched mutual funds.
Very few funds manage to consistently repeat top-half or top-quartile performance.
This restricts the universe of large-cap stocks to only those whose 52-week price gains ranked in the top quartile of all (not just large-cap) stocks.
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For employees in the highest-income quartile, 18% who had previously not been successful under the 3% default rate would be successful under the 6% rate.
Hardware supplier Fastenal was in the third quartile and rose fourteenfold.
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